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In addition to our 10:30am in-person services, we are holding virtual live services Sunday mornings on Zoom. The Zoom room will be open 15 minutes early.
Meeting ID: 864 0572 9304 PASSCODE: sunday (all lower case) The services are recorded and posted on our website HERE and on our YouTube channel HERE. Direct links are emailed in our newsletter every week. Enter your email address in the form to the right to subscribe. |
Sundays9 to 9:45am: Metaphysical Book Study
9:50 to 10:05am: Meditation 10:30 to 11:30am: Sunday Service 11:30am to 12:30pm: Food & Fellowship |
2026 CSL Global Theme: Open at the Top
Ernest Holmes consistently reminds us that Science of Mind must remain a living teaching: “Shorn of dogmatism, freed from superstition, Open at the Top for greater illumination, unbound and unlimited,” (Science of Mind Magazine Oct. 1971 pg. 16) yet grounded in timeless spiritual principles. He cautions us against closing our minds through certainty and instead urges us to stop, look, listen, and ask ourselves, “Does this that I believe measure up to Truth?” For Holmes, being Open at the Top means cultivating curiosity, embracing doubt as part of our path, and trusting that new wisdom and greater illumination are always available to us if we are open to it. It is a call to live in the creative “What If,” to stretch beyond what is comfortable, and to embody a spirituality that grows, questions, and evolves with us and the world.
As a spiritual movement, being Open at the Top means embodying our Global Vision: a world that works for everyone and all of creation. It invites us to live as one global family, honoring the interconnectedness of all life, embracing diversity, and choosing love and connection over righteousness. It calls us to personal responsibility and social conscience, to sustainable and just practices, and to the joyful, creative expression of Spirit through us. To be Open at the Top in 2026 is to release outdated practices and fear-based thinking, to honor ancestral wisdom while welcoming new visions, and to live from the eternal Truth that Love is forever creating, forever becoming, and forever expressing through each of us.
Every month is designed to address the theme from four different perspectives or lenses: Personal Outer & Inner, and Collective Outer & Inner. The order in which these perspectives are taken changes from month to month, allowing for a fresh and dynamic unfolding of each theme. No matter the order, all four perspectives are engaged, ensuring that each theme is experienced as both deeply personal and broadly collective, both inward and outward in its expression. Once a quarter, during the months with five Sundays, a fifth perspective is added: Oneness. This lens takes a big picture view of the entire quarter, drawing the threads together to highlight our shared wholeness and unity.
As a spiritual movement, being Open at the Top means embodying our Global Vision: a world that works for everyone and all of creation. It invites us to live as one global family, honoring the interconnectedness of all life, embracing diversity, and choosing love and connection over righteousness. It calls us to personal responsibility and social conscience, to sustainable and just practices, and to the joyful, creative expression of Spirit through us. To be Open at the Top in 2026 is to release outdated practices and fear-based thinking, to honor ancestral wisdom while welcoming new visions, and to live from the eternal Truth that Love is forever creating, forever becoming, and forever expressing through each of us.
Every month is designed to address the theme from four different perspectives or lenses: Personal Outer & Inner, and Collective Outer & Inner. The order in which these perspectives are taken changes from month to month, allowing for a fresh and dynamic unfolding of each theme. No matter the order, all four perspectives are engaged, ensuring that each theme is experienced as both deeply personal and broadly collective, both inward and outward in its expression. Once a quarter, during the months with five Sundays, a fifth perspective is added: Oneness. This lens takes a big picture view of the entire quarter, drawing the threads together to highlight our shared wholeness and unity.
May Theme: Divine Doubt
This month, we will explore the potential, beauty, and vulnerability of Divine Doubt. As the old adage goes, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. A refusal to engage doubt weakens faith by forcing it to be only rigidly believed, rather than lived into. Additionally, willingness to explore and examine doubt alongside faith adds layers of richness to the mystery that simple certainty can never reach.
May 3, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 1- Title: Self Doubt as the Starting Block
About: Opening our conversation on Divine Doubt, we will explore the relationship we have to our own self-doubts and what the ramifications might be of letting doubt be part of our normal experiences. What doubts do I hide, and what do I fear revealing them would do? Rather than hide our doubt away, might we benefit from
using them as the anchor of curiosity?
Week 1- Title: Self Doubt as the Starting Block
About: Opening our conversation on Divine Doubt, we will explore the relationship we have to our own self-doubts and what the ramifications might be of letting doubt be part of our normal experiences. What doubts do I hide, and what do I fear revealing them would do? Rather than hide our doubt away, might we benefit from
using them as the anchor of curiosity?
May 10, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 2- Title: Debuting the Doubting Self
About: What would happen if I debuted my doubting self the way I share my confident self? How might my life and relationships change? As we dive deeper into Divine Doubt, this week we will consider the ramifications of sharing our personal doubts together and creating communities that hold space for these questioning
moments.
Week 2- Title: Debuting the Doubting Self
About: What would happen if I debuted my doubting self the way I share my confident self? How might my life and relationships change? As we dive deeper into Divine Doubt, this week we will consider the ramifications of sharing our personal doubts together and creating communities that hold space for these questioning
moments.
May 17, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 3- Title: Carrying Our Doubt Together
About: We continue to explore Divine Doubt this month by turning to the collective inner experience, the doubts which we share amongst one another as part of our shared unconscious. What power and possibility lie in our collective doubts? If we revisit doubt as an avenue to faith and curiosity, what transformations can sharing and
exploring doubt bring?
Week 3- Title: Carrying Our Doubt Together
About: We continue to explore Divine Doubt this month by turning to the collective inner experience, the doubts which we share amongst one another as part of our shared unconscious. What power and possibility lie in our collective doubts? If we revisit doubt as an avenue to faith and curiosity, what transformations can sharing and
exploring doubt bring?
May 24, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 4- Title: Communal Uncertainty
About: After weeks of exploring Divine Doubt, how will we apply this work to our communities? This week, we will look at using our doubts to engage with wonder and curiosity as we continue to build webs of love and respect in CSL. As a community, both in individual communities and in the worldwide organization, what doubts or uncertainties does CSL express? What do we hide? What doubts and uncertainties might our organization address for the good of all?
Week 4- Title: Communal Uncertainty
About: After weeks of exploring Divine Doubt, how will we apply this work to our communities? This week, we will look at using our doubts to engage with wonder and curiosity as we continue to build webs of love and respect in CSL. As a community, both in individual communities and in the worldwide organization, what doubts or uncertainties does CSL express? What do we hide? What doubts and uncertainties might our organization address for the good of all?
May 31, 2026, Guest Speaker: Rev. Bonnie and Andy Anderson
Week 5- Title: Doubt as Devotion: Questioning as an Act of Love
About: In this Oneness review of the quarter, we put divine doubt into conversation with becoming and higher, deeper love. Taken together, these three chart a path of Divine expression through surrender to vulnerability and a trusting of the Universal process. What doubts distract or keep you from experiencing your fullness?
Deeper love? What if those doubts are signposts, rather than detours?
Week 5- Title: Doubt as Devotion: Questioning as an Act of Love
About: In this Oneness review of the quarter, we put divine doubt into conversation with becoming and higher, deeper love. Taken together, these three chart a path of Divine expression through surrender to vulnerability and a trusting of the Universal process. What doubts distract or keep you from experiencing your fullness?
Deeper love? What if those doubts are signposts, rather than detours?
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