The "Through the Advent Doors" series explores the process of waiting in this season, and the new ways we can view the four Advent themes of Hope, Love, Peace, and Joy. The series takes influence from Jan L Richardson's book of the same name. In this episode, Rev. Laura Vail Fregin discusses "Hope" in the scope of current events.

Sermon by Rev. Laura Vail Fregin
Music: "Coventry Carol" performed by Grace Sheldon-Williams
Podcast produced by the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

David Harris interviews David Saldaña and Rev. Michael Lehman about the exciting premiere of David's "Canciones de Nochebuena" presented by the FCCLA Cathedral Choir and Laude on December 11, 2022, directed by David Harris with Rev. Lehman playing percussion. 

Ironically enough, while religion dims and even disappears from the scene in many cases, it is the philosophy and psychology that hold out against the notion of giving up, of abandoning ourselves to the dregs of life. Of seeing it as useless. Of surrendering to its challenges, depressed by its losses and deluded by its fruitless promises of success, of wealth, of power, of whatever brings us to the brink.

The "Evolving God, Evolving World, Evolving Purpose" series explores deep questions of faith in a changing world, and how we can understand the nature of faith in the face of unsureness. The series takes influence from a trinity of sources: "An Evolving God, an Evolving Purpose, an Evolving World" by Joan Chittister, the artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe, & the Webb telescope.

Sermon by Rev. Michael Lehman
Music: "Love is Little" by David García Saldaña, recorded by Ryan Humphrey
Podcast produced by the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles