Join us for discussions and presentations from a wide variety of faithful perspectives at our Sunday Forum. Forum meets in Fellowship Hall on the lower level on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. during the program year. All are welcome. 

Sunday Forums 2023

9/17/2023  Building Community: Holding Each Other Sacredly.  How might telling each other our stories help us build what Lakota people call, “kiciuzapi” – a way of holding each other in sacred reverence? When we begin to know one another, we begin to create connections and bonds and strengthen our interest and ability to live in, grow, and build community. Join Gretchen Sage-Martinson and Nancy Agneberg as we launch our forum series for the year with story-telling and reconnecting in community.

9/24:  Mental Health and Recovery in the Faith Community:  September is Recovery Sunday. How does our community support and encourage families in their journeys of recovery? Gloria Dei members Alex Stegeman and Alycia Lopez, of our Mental Health and Recovery team, will give us tools and insights into the needs and challenges for those in recovery.

10/1 Building Community on Sacred Ground The Highland Heritage Project is a grant-funded initiative to support the research and preservation of the history of our neighborhood. Continuing the discussion they introduced last winter, the HHP will further our understanding of the historic patterns of property in our community. They will more deeply describe both the history and current experiecnce of Dakota people in Highland and Mendota.

10/8  MN Interfaith Power and Light—Building Community with Sacred Earth Buff Grace with Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light will ground us in our spiritual call to be good stewards by caring for our sacred creation and share practical things individuals can do to take advantage of all the rebates and tax credits available because of our ever growing climate crises.