You know that moment.
You’re talking to someone - maybe a friend, a parent, or the stranger next to you at your kid’s game. Suddenly you realize:
  We don’t see the world the same way anymore.
 We don’t even speak the same language.

It can happen anywhere - on the sidelines, at a concert, in the grocery line, or around a holiday dinner table when rarely-in-touch family try to catch up over too much food.

There’s a tension you can feel in your body. A tightening, a pulling away.
Maybe it’s grief. Maybe it’s heartbreak.
Especially when the person across from you isn’t a stranger, but someone you love.

In a time that thrives on outrage and villain-making, how do we find our way back to one another?

How do we stay in conversation when everything in us wants to retreat, attack, or numb out?

And what does it take - spiritually, emotionally, and relationally - to stay human with each other when the world rewards disconnection?

Through the first Sunday in December, we’ll explore these questions in our worship series Between Us. Together, we’ll practice the courage to stay. Not to win arguments or fix others, but to cultivate the humility, curiosity, and steadiness that make real dialogue and connection possible.

Each Sunday builds on the last, offering a spiritual deepening for this cultural moment:

In these times, our faith calls us to resist turning anyone into a monster — and instead, to transform our instinct for self-protection into a capacity for shared belonging.

Come join the conversation.
Let’s keep practicing this vision, together.