Welcome to God's Round Table
Holy Communion Worship, Sundays at 10:30am
At Mount Tabor we believe that living God’s love begins with the open invitation to all people to join us at the Meal that is central to our worship life.
Inclusive, unconditional love meets us where Christ gives himself freely to us. In the Meal of holy communion, we remember and celebrate Jesus’ sacrificial love that empowers our serving in the world.
For us, “grace” means that God meets us just as we are with joy and new life. This is why we worship God together every week.
The Spirit of God has made an open invitation to meet us every week in this special way, in the Meal of grace. All are invited. All are welcome: young and old, doubters and believers, seekers and disciples. Our diversity at the Meal reflects the beauty of our Creator’s wisdom.
Come celebrate with us and be empowered by God’s love for justice, peace, and community!
Maud’s Café is a newly-built coffee shop that will offer an 8-12 week employment training program for the youth from Volunteers of America, Utah’s Homeless Youth Resource Center, Young Men’s and Women’s Transition Homes. Patrons of Maud’s will be supporting the Wasatch Front economy by purchasing quality, locally-produced goods. Join us in giving homeless youth the opportunity to contribute to our community, as they stabilize their lives and work toward self-sufficiency.
Faith, Ethics, Science Roundtable for January
The Roundtable will meet Monday, January 27th from 11:30am to 1pm in Room 117 of the Research Administration Bldg at the University of Utah.
The topic for our discussion is "Where does consciousness originate? What is the Mind? Are these what philosophy and theology call the Soul?"
Dr. Gary Peterson is a retired psychiatrist in Salt Lake City. He will be helping us address these questions, referencing Antonio Damasio's latest book Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. Gary is a practicing Buddhist, and will share his insights from that tradition as well.
Please read the article below by Sunil Pandya in preparation for our discussion:
"When the deeper parts of the brain came within the reach of neurosurgeons, the brainstem proved exceptionally delicate and vulnerable. The concept of brain death after irreversible damage to it has made all of us aware of ‘the cocktail of brain soup and spark’ in the brainstem so necessary for life. If there be a soul in each of us, surely, it is enshrined here." -- Sunil Pandya
Dr.Sunil Pandya is a neurosurgeon and thinker on medical ethics. He is Editor Emeritus, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and works at the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai.
Mount Tabor is a Reconciling in Christ congregation
We as the Rocky Mountain Synod, ELCA invite all into the fullness of God’s love. This invitation is inclusive of people of every race, national origin, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, physical or mental ability, sex, or station in life. We pledge to use our differences as gifts for our work together.