During the month of August, we will meet in the downstairs fellowship hall where it is cooler, and the services will be less structured and feature a topic for open discussion. Please note that children’s Religious Exploration will resume in September, but they are welcome to join us in the fellowship hall this month.

The evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme wrote, “The deep truth about matter, which neither Descartes nor Newton realized, is that, over the course of four billion years, molten rocks transformed themselves into monarch butterflies, blue herons, and the exalted music of Mozart.” Our discussion question this week will be: “Do you think there is a purpose to the evolution of the universe or not?”