The spiritual theme for this January is "Story." Our minister, Rev. Tony Lorenzen, reflects on religion as religion as the story we tell ourselves about who we are. A religion is a community that shares a story about who they are, who they should be, where they come from, and where they're going. The story is grounding. It places us in time and history as well as in relationship to life. The story gives us direction in terms of relationships to people, places, and things and in terms of ethics and how we should behave. A common story helps us understand each other.