From You I Receive, To You I Give
Just how are we interdependent with one another? How can we both give and receive in mutuality? Come discuss as we launch our annual pledge drive!
Dehumanization: how it starts with words & ends with genocide
Akbar Hussaini, Executive Director, Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council (NMIIC) shares anecdotes of Dehumanization on a collective scale and on a personal level, and inspires us to do what each one of us can do to stop it from going any further. If you are not familiar with NMIIC, please visit their website: https://nmiinterfaithcouncil.org/
Repentance, Forgiveness & Redemption
Our Universalist heritage calls for forgiveness and redemption. How can we use this message to widen the circle, when so many want to draw a circle that keeps many of us out?
Many Different Beliefs
How did religious tolerance, acceptance and even embracing come about? How can we continue to widen our own theological circles?
Freedom to Be
In celebration of the founding of the NAACP, the freedom to marry, and Darwin’s birthday, let us gather to discuss what freedoms have we gained in the last hundred years and freedoms we still need to gain.
I Have Two Dreams
Let us examine the life and work of Ethelred Brown, an early black pioneer in Unitarians, whose ministry was focused on widening the circle.
Life Lessons
Life’s lessons often tell us something about how we are called in the world at different times in our lives. What were your life’s lessons? What are you called to now? Come learn more and share!
Showing Up
Silence is violence. The heart of nonviolent protest is action.
Is King Safely Dead?
2022 is the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. And as our country reckons mightily with our history of racism, we must come to grips with this brave and inconvenient hero. If King’s radical message remains vigorously alive, we must seriously ask what it truly demands of us right here, right now in America.
Everything Is Waiting For You
How do we live our lives with intention? There are some ancient traditions that might shed some new light.
Question Box Sunday
Have you got questions? Rev. Sian Wiltshire has answers! This is your chance to ask any question you like — about life, theology, the church, ministry, etc. A favorite service, come see if Rev. Sian can answer your burning questions!
Annual Fire Communion Service
We will sit in the liminal transition space of the ending of 2021 and the beginning of 2022. This has been a year of reemerging and receding; a back-and-forth year. Many people are yearning for the waiting to be over and for a new beginning. Let’s take some time for deep reflection letting go of what has been as we prepare for what will be.