On this MLK Day weekend, it is good and right to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. King, but it’s also important to remember that no one person was responsible for the Civil Rights Movement. No one person ever changes history alone. Movements are, by default, the work of countless individuals, giving of their time, … Continue reading MLK Day: Unsung Heroes
This service will be online (Zoom and Facebook) only. New Year’s is the winter holiday that most speaks to our Director of Religious Exploration, Tim Atkins. Come to the online worship service, Sunday, January 2, 2022 and learn more about how to make New Year’s a meaningful holiday in your life too. We will talk about how to … Continue reading New Year’s: An Act in Three Parts
Because of cold temperatures and rising COVID numbers, we will be online-only this Sunday. On this Sunday before the Winter Solstice (12/21) and the Humanist celebration of HumanLight (12/23), we will shift focus from the babe in Bethlehem to all babies, from angels to astronomy, from flying reindeer to the Earth’s rotation. And there, too, we … Continue reading Celebrating the Winter Solstice and HumanLight
Because of cold weather and rising COVID numbers, this service will be on Zoom and Facebook only! Order of Service Back in 1974, country singer Merle Haggard released the song, “If We Make It Through December,” in which the narrator is laid off from his job right before Christmas. Sad, even devastating Christmas songs make … Continue reading “If We Make It Through December” — a Blue Christmas service
Join us on the front lawn or on Zoom/Facebook for the annual “Carols and Stories” service. This year, we will focus on the very first Christmas carol, the song that Mary sings in the first chapter of Luke, known as the Magnificat. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was executed by the Nazis, described it … Continue reading Carols and Stories: the Magnificat
400 years ago, in the fall of 1621, a group of religious dissenters from England had just made it through a time of terrible hardship in a place they called Plymouth. The truth was that they wouldn’t have made it all if not for the help of an original inhabitant of the land, a Native … Continue reading What We Bring to the Table
Julius Jones. Kyle Rittenhouse. Ahmaud Arbery. Staying engaged with the struggle for equity and justice can feel like riding a roller coaster of emotions. We might experience a brief sense of euphoric victory, only to plunge into a deep valley of disappointment and even despair. Through it all, how do we keep going? Where can … Continue reading Commitment
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, we’ve increased our virtual communication and decreased our in-person (embodied, incarnate) interaction with others. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing one another in “fragmented” ways — as faces without noses and mouths, or as floating heads in Zoom boxes. Even as children are vaccinated and new COVID treatments emerge, making … Continue reading Covenant Incarnate
“Covenant and commitment, not comfort, should be the binding fabrics of UU congregations… Our faith communities are not just available for those who fit in most easily or who make so much trouble no one is willing to challenge them. New generations have even more … lack of tolerance for this sort of culture and … Continue reading Conflict
Join us online or outdoors, on the lawn! Oklahoma County is now at the high risk level for COVID, which means that we can move to the next phase of our reopening plan and have a seated service outdoors. To minimize set up and clean up work, please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets, … Continue reading Mysterious Powers – Outdoor Seated Service!
