• This Sun, Nov 10: MK Nelson preaches

• Volunteer for Home & Hope gift wrapping

• Marilyn Garrison's sermon on St. Francis

• Is the collapse of Christianity "overstated"?

• Review us on Yelp and Google

• Save the dates

• Quote of the week

• Events this week

Right: Photos on the altar last Sunday, when we celebrated Day of the Dead.

MK Nelson returns to preach this Sunday. She'll continue our series on the Buddhist ox-herding pictures, speaking about Picture 8: The Ox and the Oxherder Are Both Forgotten. Tricycle Magazine says about this picture: "We realize that nothing belongs to us truly; we can only care for it while it lasts. We also experience that we do not have a solid, separate identity. We are a flow of conditions. We are made up of all our genes, history, social conditioning, etc. Who are we but a bundle of aggregates and fluctuations?"

Join members of Many Journeys and College Heights as we wrap gifts at the Stanford Shopping Center. This is the largest fundraiser of the year for Home & Hope, which provides emergency housing for homeless families. We'll wrap gifts that shoppers have purchased, and in return they'll make a donation to Home & Hope. It's a fun and festive way to raise money for a great nonprofit.

Our dates are Dec 7, 16, and 21. Sign up for a volunteer shift here.

Last month, Marilyn Garrison delivered a message about St. Francis in celebration of his feast day. Read her message here.

Al Hasse passes on this article from Ross Douthat: Some argue that "that the recent decline of institutional religion is entirely a function of the formerly weakly affiliated ceasing to identify with religious bodies entirely." Also: "The decline of Christian institutions and the weakening of Christian affiliation may be clearing space for post-Christian spiritualities — pantheist, gnostic, syncretist, pagan — rather than a New Atheist sort of godlessness." Read the article.

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Sun, Nov 17: Book group and dinner: "The Second Mountain" by David Brooks (6 pm)

See the full calendar of upcoming events at at collegeheights.us/calendar .

"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

—Will Rogers

Wed, Nov 6

• Meditation (Sanctuary, 7 am)

• Yoga (Sanctuary, 9:15 am)

Fri, Nov 8:

• Taizé service with cellist Ami Nashimoto (7:30 pm)

Sun, Nov 10

• Choir rehearsal (9 am)

• Worship service (10 am)

Mon, Nov 11 (Veterans Day)

• Volunteering for Samaritan House (10 am)

• Women's fellowship (Fiero Caffe, 1 pm)

• Yoga (Sanctuary, 5:30 pm)