Beth Woolsey (she has a hilarious parenting blog here) gave an excellent message this week on "A Call to Translucency" based loosely on John 9. She also showed this video. This has been a really cool series on authenticity in our faith and worship.

Last week we heard from Paul Bock on "Speaking the Truth in Love"--a challenge for us all, to be sure!

This week's podcast focused on Theological Authenticity by Jonah Harkema, exploring the necessity of being authentic with each other about our theological questions and doubts.

This week, Nate Macy brought our message, from Psalm 24:1, "For I am already God's, nothing separates me."

I brought the messages from the last two weeks! These were on my heart for about a month, so it's good to have them out of my mouth and available to the worldwide web...

Lamenting Together

Birthing Prophetic Action

This week's podcast deals with the topic of lament and singing a new song, including a U2 song. Message by Andy Henry.

This week's podcast at North Valley is a continuation of a discussion started last week on "A Life of Faith in Community," exploring authenticity and intimacy in faith community, hosted by Lynn Holt.

We're going into a sermon series for the summer on authenticity and intimacy in the faith community. Lynn Holt started us off this week with a message on A Life of Faith in Community. The podcast begins with a time of prayer for those in our community.

This week we had a little glitch in our technology-heavy worship service when the power went out! That will teach us to be "programmed" Friends! You can listen to the podcast here, and see photos and videos that we didn't actually get to see during the service.

Here is the latest podcast from North Valley Friends with a message from Andy Henry on Healing the Healers.

One thing that's great about North Valley Friends is that each year we have a worship service that celebrates our high school graduates. We play a "name that graduate" game (in which we win chocolate!), and the youth pastor gives a message that encourages them and the rest of us. This year, Leslie Murray, the youth pastor, had mentors of each of the youth write a letter to them/about them that records some of their gifts and strengths, and ways they've seen the graduates grow. Check out the…

Here are the last two weeks' podcasts on the biblical book of Acts: one on Quaker discernment from Acts 15 called "It Seemed Right to the Holy Spirit & to Us" by Paul Anderson, and one called "Are You Conscious?" on being mindful of what God is doing in the world around you, by…

This week's message from Paul Bock discussed the church at Antioch in the biblical book of Acts, and included an invitation for us to try communal prayer and fasting.

This week's message explored "The Holiness of Hospitality," brought to us by Andy Henry.

Here is this week'spodcast by Lynn Holt.

This week's message focused on the "e-word"--"evangelism." How can we share about our faith without the dangers of manipulation, hellfire and brimstone and all the trappings of evangelicalism that tend to make us squeamish? "Caught in Community" by Lynn Holt.

Paul Bock shared with us last week a message entitled, "What's Got Into You?" about being drunk with the Spirit, and queries about what it might look like if Friends were to do this today.

Last week's worship focused on Preparing for Pentecost. Andy Henry brought the message.

Our Easter podcast! We had a very creative service with stations around the meetinghouse where we could draw, decorate a cross with flowers, meditate on the metaphor of bread in the Bible (while eating bread!) and other things.

This week we experimented with a Tenebrae service, focused around Jesus' request of his disciples to "Stay with me, watch and pray," the night of his arrest.