Journey Together in Love
“Real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.” – Henri Nouwen. We heal, we learn, we grow — we replenish our well — in community, too. This Sunday, we’ll consider the ways community care manifests in church — how can we travel alongside one another toward wholeness? When have we made our way to the gateway to joy, together?
Betwixt and Between
As we come up on the pagan holiday of Samhain, it seems as if the world kind of stands still for a moment. What does it mean to stand in the liminal space and time? What can it teach us?
The Earth is Calling
We often take the earth and all the resources it offers for granted. What does the earth really mean to us? How can we build a healthy relationship with the Earth?
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Learning to listen deeply to who you are called to be in this world is a difficult thing. We have so many voices tugging at our attention—society, family, colleagues. How can we drown out all those voices and listen to the most important voice of all?
Liberal Religion
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion, not because of our progressive politics but because of our commitment to the ideals of liberalism. Liberalism in the classic sense is not an ideology, but a method for resolving conflict, gaining knowledge, and advancing toward truth. Our liberal approach to religion and to all that concerns us as religious people is a precious inheritance.
We Begin Again in Love
What makes a relationship a good one? How do we heal old wounds from past relationships? How do we even heal systemic relationships broken by racism? As our Jewish siblings celebrate Yom Kippur, Rev. Sian will lead us in exploring these questions and more.
How to Get Your Mojo Back
Trauma occurs in all kinds of ways – small and large. Sometimes to heal from traumas, we need to “come back to ourselves.” Come hear Rev. Sian talk about how we can do that from a shamanic point of view.
Water Communion
Traditionally, congregants bring a small amount of water from a special place. During the appointed time during the service, each person pours the water into a communal vessel and tells why this water is special to them. Due to the challenges of Covid-19, we will be guided through a virtual sharing and the symbolic blending of our faith coming from many different sources.
Better Angels of Our Nature
Moving together through these challenging times, we find ourselves, perhaps on a daily basis, reassessing our priorities.On this particular Labor Day weekend, I want to pay homage to our foremost job as an American people: building a land of liberty and justice for all. As our 22-year-old granddaughter, teaching ESL in South Korea, puts it: “2020 will be the year that we woke up?” So might it be!
What Matters
Moving together through these challenging times, we find ourselves, perhaps on a daily basis, reassessing our priorities.
Truthiness!
Defined as “the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.” This could not be further from our 4th Unitarian Universalist Principle that “We covenant to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” I promise I will not try to trick you with “Fake News” or “Alternative Facts” this…
Joyful Noise
The Music Ministries presented a worship service on the topic of singing. Hear from congregants about the relationship of singing, experience lots of songs about singing, and hopefully, you will open the door to your own singing, just a little bit wider than before.