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Contributed by Susan Posey, Redeemer Lutheran, McLean A local volunteer group, Fairfax Tree Rescuers, has launched an initiative called the Fairfax Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM).  They will be holding a number of removal events throughout Fairfax County the week of November 8 through 16, 2025. Volunteers are asked to register for the […]

Contributed by Stephen Wickman, St. Thomas Episcopal, McLean I am a long-time and proud member of WPFW, “Jazz and Justice Radio,” a wholly community-owned station in D.C.  While I do not agree with their extreme progressive views on justice, I appreciate wholeheartedly their jazz programming, the last vestige of a proud Washington tradition that dates from the days of Duke […]

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Trish Hall At Centers for Spiritual Living, our core belief is Oneness – the inseparability of all creation.  “We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; One indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by Its creation.  The manifest universe […]

Contributed by Stephen Wickman, St. Thomas Episcopal, McLean Spurred by a comment to my blog post on “comfort,” led me to take a  historical and philosophical dive. In 2014 Philip Jenkins wrote a deliberately provocative article to argue there was “a genuine and epochal decline in the number and scale” of religious movements like the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church, both of which date from the 1950s and early 1960s.  But others have mushroomed in Asia, where I lived and worked for years. Daesoon Jinrihoe, founded in 1969, is […]

Contributed by Lois Herr — First Church of Christ, Scientist, McLean Many people set aside time in their day for prayer, reflection, or meditation. As a Christian Science practitioner, I often find inspiration in daily audio reflections presented by members of our church, called the Daily Lift. A recent Daily Lift by Madora Kibbe, a Christian […]

Contributed by Stephen Wickman:  St. Thomas Episcopal, McLean “What would they do if they were tested with a great tragedy, wouldn’t they need God for comfort?”  That was the question asked by one of our Baha’i friends at last week’s Interfaith Coffee House (please come!) in response to my snarky suggestion that, looking at the […]

Contributed by Stephen Wickman, St. Thomas Episcopal, McLean “Why Have Empathy for Those Who Never Extend It?” is how Qasim Rashid begins a brave essay that reflects on the death of Charlie Kirk Reflections on the Death of Charlie Kirk.  It is well worth the time to read his thoughts in full, but here is […]

Contributed by Susan Posey, Redeemer Lutheran Church, McLean A friend of mine recently shared a link to an article published in Time entitled, We All Deserve Dignity and Respect.  It is authored by Russell Nelson, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the occasion of his 101st birthday!  Mr. Nelson’s […]

This past summer at McLean Baptist Church we did a series of Sunday morning group studies titled ‘Kaleidoscope of Faith.’ I had the pleasure of presenting the last session of the series and the topic I chose was Faith & Gratitude. Some of the other sessions included Faith & Travel, Faith & Science, Faith & […]

Contributed by Stephen Wickman, St. Thomas Episcopal, McLean I had forgotten all about the book I had to read in high school until I heard this show about the Greek goddess Hestia (Vesta to the Romans). (BBC Audio | Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics | Hestia  That book is long gone, but my […]