The Table

THIS THURSDAY (July 14th) is BILLY SHEARS (Beatles Cover Band)!  Join us for great music, good company, and tasty food as we rock out together to Billy Shears (Beatles Cover Band), and raise funds to help the Table pay the tax man.  Show starts at 8pm, tickets are $15, and it’s all happening at the […]

A few years ago, Zee and I took a trip to Italy; which included a 10 day road tour through Italy and Sicily with a car we rented in Rome. Before we left on the trip, I purchased a GPS that we came to fondly call “Nuvi”. There were times when Nuvi seemed to take […]

I saw a movie a number of years ago called “Inherit the Wind.” It was an old movie with old movie stars like Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly who played Southern lawyers defending a educator accused of teaching Darwinism in the 1920s. Darwinism was a touchy subject then, it was a touchy subject in the 1960 […]

There is an old folksy truism that a rut is just a grave with the ends knocked out. As humans, we seem remarkably prone to getting into ruts. We may prefer to call them by a more flattering name – maybe routines or customs or habits. And sometimes, that kind of naming truly describes the […]

In the interest of having as many of us as possible gather this long weekend, we’ve switching our gathers to Monday nights starting this Monday (May 23rd).  And just to make it more confusing, this Monday’s service will start a bit later than the Monday services to follow.   So here’s the plan: Coffee and […]

Mother’s Day is a day that can bring both celebration of fulfilled longings, as well as grieving for longings that remain.  It can be difficult to talk about motherhood without falling into stereotypes or norms that can exclude so many, but I think it’s safe to connect the idea of nurturance and care to the […]

Every once in a while I hear a song that goes beyond “ear worm” and becomes something almost permanent in my brain. It gets stuck in there, lodged in a deeper place than the place that just holds content (like lyrics) – a place that retains things because they are the carriers of a deeper […]

Hello People of The Table. In the last couple of days I have had a number of people wish me “Happy Easter”. Not folks I know, just people I’ve interacted with in the process of going about my business day by day. It seems that Easter still has some cultural cache, even if it is […]

In the grand scheme of the church year, we are entering into the week that, in many ways, marks the pinnacle of Christian belief and worship. The story of the week before Christ’s death is a fast paced drama in which the central figure of Christ is borne inexorably toward the ultimate donation of self […]

It occurs to me that many of us live our lives with a great deal of fear. Fear certainly pervades the social and political discourses of our times, and manages to seep into every sector of our lives from how we spend our money, to how we operate in relationships and even how we worship. […]