Redeemer is a landmark in the Morristown community. Our diversity is our wealth. Our questions and dreams, rather than our answers, unite us.
Church of the Redeemer
Celebrating Love. Doing Justice.
Who We Are
We seek a world where ALL of God’s creation is celebrated and cherished.
A Space for Everyone
We were the first church in the state of New Jersey (in 1940) to host an AA meeting and are proud to have been blessing and marrying LGBTQ+ couples since 1991. But it doesn’t stop there! We have weekly Sunday worship, various activities and groups to join, and year-round community events.
Exciting Things Are Happening!
Upcoming Events
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Read the current Vestry notes here.
Rabbi Debra Smith is the founding Rabbi of the Or ha Lev Jewish Renewal Community, a now fully virtual Jewish community. She is on the faculty of the Aleph Rabbinical Seminary, where she teaches Pastoral Counseling and Clergy Ethics. Rabbi Deb has worked extensively in the interfaith community over the past decade or more, and is a former co- chair of the Morris County Chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam-Shalom. For the past four years, she co- facilitates, along with a Christian colleague, a weekly Jewish Christian study group.
Rabbi Deb is the author/ editor of five Jewish and interfaith-themed books. She is married for 51 years to Dr. Neil Smith. Rabbi Deb and Neil and their beloved mini- goldendoodle, Sammi, reside in Boynton Beach, Florida and spend summers in New Jersey. They have two married daughters, Elana and Dana.
Rabbi Debra Smith, MSW, Maggidah and Spiritual Leader Or Ha Lev Jewish Renewal Community, NJ: orhalevnj.org http://www.rabbidebrasmith.com/
WEATHER UPDATES! From now until the end of winter, in case of inclement weather, please check your email on Sunday morning for updates as to whether Sunday Service will be held in the Church. You may also check Instagram and Facebook.
If the Service is canceled, we may have a Zoom service.
The Book Group meets online at 7 pm
2/23/2026 – ATMOSPHERE by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Please contact Veronica for the link. Reading the book is not essential to joining our discussion, so if you are inclined, please drop in whether you have read it or not.
Please support your local bookshop and Redeemer by ordering from our online Bookshop by clicking here. https://bookshop.org/shop/Redeemer
Please contact Veronica for the link. Reading the book is not essential to joining our discussion, so if you are inclined, please drop in, whether you have read it or not.
Support your local bookshop and Redeemer by ordering from our online Bookshop by clicking here. https://link.edgepilot.com/s/b89f9d01/mUkinBM5fU6BJwp3oNvlSw?u=https://bookshop.org/shop/Redeemer
Welcome!
All are welcome!
Welcome to Redeemer! We are not just a building in the community– we are a community! We gather online and in person for worship, in person to participate in activities like our Garden of Hope food security ministry or helping clean up the Whippany River, and online for lively book discussions and forward-looking racial and ethnic reconciliation work. I would love to welcome you at any of these things, and hear what you are looking for.
Yours in faith,
The Church of the Redeemer
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