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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 To be Open at the Top in 2026 is to release outdated practices and fear-based thinking, to honor ancestral wisdom while welcoming new visions, and to live from the eternal Truth that Love is forever creating,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.
January Theme: Ancestral Wisdom, New Thought
We are kicking off the year honoring the tradition of realigning with the basics of the Science of Mind. As we rediscover the empowering truths found in the first four chapters of the textbook, the essential scaffolding of our teaching, we’ll be pairing each message with an invitation to deepen into the possibilities offered through Indigenous stories. The theme begins with Divine Mind and Maple Sugar, exploring the nature of the Divine, of humanity, and of the synchronicities that enrich our lives. Is it any wonder that temperature, light, plant biology and ancestral wisdom come together to make maple syrup possible? Circulation and Wild Strawberries invites us to rediscover the flow of good, both into our lives and through us, into the world. Doesn’t that which is given and shared, like the sweetness of wild strawberries, offer us the richest returns? The theme continues with Cause and Effect in the Sweetgrass, reminding us that we have all the knowledge we need. It’s time now to put it into practice by living in alignment with Principle. Just as the sweetgrass grows best when mindfully harvested, clearing away space for new plants to grow, so too we can clear away the weeds in our subconscious. Finally, Infinite Possibilities and Sacred Kinship paints a picture of exploring the ideas of Oneness, allegiance and reciprocity, where every living being is truly One. What might we create together with the Infinite Power we’ve been given?
January 4, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 1- Title: Divine Mind and Maple Sugar
About: In Science of Mind, we are taught that the entire Universe conspires for our good. Indigenous wisdom supports and deepens this idea, honoring the interconnectedness of all. This week, we’ll share the story of the Maple Sugar Moon, and discover the communion of weather, botany, squirrel wisdom and human effort in creating the magic of maple sugar. How is the Universe conspiring for the highest good of all right now?
Week 1- Title: Divine Mind and Maple Sugar
About: In Science of Mind, we are taught that the entire Universe conspires for our good. Indigenous wisdom supports and deepens this idea, honoring the interconnectedness of all. This week, we’ll share the story of the Maple Sugar Moon, and discover the communion of weather, botany, squirrel wisdom and human effort in creating the magic of maple sugar. How is the Universe conspiring for the highest good of all right now?
January 11, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 2- Title: Circulation and Wild Strawberries
About: Experience the sweetness of giving and receiving at “Circulation and Wild Strawberries.” This week we explore the Law of Circulation and the ever-givingness of the Divine, inspired by the Indigenous wisdom of the
Potawatomi people as well as Chapter 3 of “The Science of Mind”. How might your life change if you gave and
received as freely as wild strawberries grow?
Week 2- Title: Circulation and Wild Strawberries
About: Experience the sweetness of giving and receiving at “Circulation and Wild Strawberries.” This week we explore the Law of Circulation and the ever-givingness of the Divine, inspired by the Indigenous wisdom of the
Potawatomi people as well as Chapter 3 of “The Science of Mind”. How might your life change if you gave and
received as freely as wild strawberries grow?
January 18, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 3- Title: Cause and Effect in the Sweetgrass
About: Explore the magic of co-creation with “Cause and Effect in the Sweetgrass.” This week we explore the creative process and the richness of partnering with the natural world, inspired by the Indigenous wisdom of the
Potawatomi people as well as Chapter 4 of “The Science of Mind”. How can we deepen our intentional co-
creation to include the wellbeing of all life?
Week 3- Title: Cause and Effect in the Sweetgrass
About: Explore the magic of co-creation with “Cause and Effect in the Sweetgrass.” This week we explore the creative process and the richness of partnering with the natural world, inspired by the Indigenous wisdom of the
Potawatomi people as well as Chapter 4 of “The Science of Mind”. How can we deepen our intentional co-
creation to include the wellbeing of all life?
January 25, 2026, Rev. Steve Van Meter
Week 4- Title: Infinite Possibilities and Sacred Kinship
About: Imagine a more expansive way of living with “Infinite Possibilities and Sacred Kinship.” This week we explore the ideas of Oneness, allegiance and reciprocity, where every living being is truly One. We’ll find inspiration from the Indigenous wisdom of the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as well as Chapter 2 of “The Science of Mind”. What might we create together with the Infinite Power we’ve been given?
Week 4- Title: Infinite Possibilities and Sacred Kinship
About: Imagine a more expansive way of living with “Infinite Possibilities and Sacred Kinship.” This week we explore the ideas of Oneness, allegiance and reciprocity, where every living being is truly One. We’ll find inspiration from the Indigenous wisdom of the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as well as Chapter 2 of “The Science of Mind”. What might we create together with the Infinite Power we’ve been given?
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