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Here you will find information on some of the exciting things going on at FCC. Visit this page often to review featured events, ongoing opportunities, and various updates from the congregation.
Scott’s Column: Gustavo Gutierrez

Scott’s Column: Gustavo Gutierrez

Earlier this year, Jurgen Moltmann died.  He was the great living theologian, at least the greatest Protestant theologian in the post-Second-World-War-Era.  And then...

Scott’s Column: The AI Metaverse

Scott’s Column: The AI Metaverse

Last week a handful of Nobel prizes went to people working in the fields of artificial intelligence.  I just so happened to be reading a book on what's possible in an...

Scott’s Column: Restoring the Light

Scott’s Column: Restoring the Light

During our fall worship season, we are exploring Awe.  The psychologist Dacher Keltner writes about how our experiences of awe and wonder get turned into ritual, art,...

Scott’s Column: Sacred Sounds

Scott’s Column: Sacred Sounds

I've spent this lovely day with my office door open to the courtyard where I can hear the fountain running.  I've been working on the vespers service for Friday night...

Scott’s Column: God’s Presence

Scott’s Column: God’s Presence

Sunday I preached about God's presence.  Though it didn't make it into the sermon, that week I read a beautiful description of the presence of the Spirit in our lives...

Scott’s Column: Happy 300th Immanuel Kant

Scott’s Column: Happy 300th Immanuel Kant

Back on April 22nd, I messaged Fred Nielsen, "Happy 300th Birthday to Immanuel Kant."  To which Fred replied, "Will you be celebrating in a particularly philosophical...

Scott’s Column: Knowing Each Other

Scott’s Column: Knowing Each Other

How well do we humans understand one another?   Apparently, not very well.  In his excellent book How to Know A Person David Brooks cites the research of William Ickes...

Books on Grieving

Books on Grieving

Books on Grieving By Daryl Malena The task of eventually moving out of the house my family has lived in since 1977 turns out to be every bit as difficult as I expected....

Scott’s Column: Spiritual Experiences

Scott’s Column: Spiritual Experiences

What are your most profound or memorable spiritual experiences? Currently in our Wednesday Night Family Night's we are exploring and discussing spiritual experiences,...

Scott’s Column: Open & Nimble

Scott’s Column: Open & Nimble

This is the sixth and final in a series of personal reflections on the State of the Church in 2024. 6. Given all of that I want to return to the theme I’ve been trying...

Scott’s Column: Impacts on Churches

Scott’s Column: Impacts on Churches

This is the fifth in a series of personal reflections on the State of the Church in 2024. 5. What are the impacts, then, on churches? There are the trends we are well...

Scott’s Column: Cultural Trends

Scott’s Column: Cultural Trends

This is the fourth in a series of personal reflections on the State of the Church in 2024. 4. As if all of that weren’t enough, there are other cultural trends and...

Scott’s Column: In a Context of Crises

Scott’s Column: In a Context of Crises

This is part three in a series of personal reflections on the State of the Church in 2024 3. Beyond the demographic trends, what else shapes the context in which we are...

Scott’s Column: Riffing on Christ

Scott’s Column: Riffing on Christ

"The inability to articulate just how God was present in Christ and how that reality shapes the character of our life together destroys the very integrity of the...

Scott’s Column: Happy Allhallowtide!

Scott’s Column: Happy Allhallowtide!

Happy Allhallowtide! That's one of the formal names for this season in which the church remembers and honors the dead, made up traditionally of the three days of All...

Scott’s Column: A Way of Seeing

Scott’s Column: A Way of Seeing

Forming our Faith: A Way of Seeing Back in the spring I taught a three-part First Forum series on what principles shape Christian Education, after that question had...

Scott’s Column: Happy (Belated) Labor Day

Scott’s Column: Happy (Belated) Labor Day

Happy (Belated) Labor Day! Last week a Washington Post article declared the eight-hour work day to be dying.  It stated “only about half of office visits now last for...

Scott’s Column: Passport to Exploration

Scott’s Column: Passport to Exploration

On the final day of our recent family summer vacation, Sebastian and I visited Pipestone National Monument in southwest Minnesota. There's a short, easy trail that...

Scott’s Column: Resources for Living-Sex

The best book I've read on sex from a (liberal) Christian perspective is Good Christian Sex by UCC pastor Bromleigh McCleneghan.  I met and befriended Bromleigh earlier...

Scott’s Column: Pride Books for Kids

Scott’s Column: Pride Books for Kids

Joyce Wilson, who died in April, loved penguins.  And her favorite children’s book was And Tango Makes Three which tells the real-life story of two male penguins at the...

Tug, My “AA” Buddy

Thank you Kathy Hoyt sharing this story of her faithful Tug at this year's Pet Blessing! Unlike the rest of us, Tug is getting older.  He’s not the same one or...

Pandemic Spirituality

Pandemic Spirituality

This spring Senior Minister Scott Jones wrote a series of five essays connecting our pandemic and quarantine experiences with the spiritual wisdom of the church.  Here...

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