“Chiron Redux: the Return of the Wounded Healer”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. Rev. Diana’s final sermon, a love letter to First Unitarian, its past and its future. This service will include the minister’s leavetaking ritual.
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Diana Davies
“COVID and Cacti of Love”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. During “candidating week” a UU minister candidate typically gives two sermons. The first is intended to introduce the candidate to the congregation (“Who Am I?”) and the second is focused on who the congregation and minister might be together (“Who Might We Be?”) In our final weeks together, I … Continue reading “COVID and Cacti of Love”
“Duende and Puhpowee: On Answering Your Calling”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. From two different cultures come two different concepts of mysterious powers. From Spain, especially from the writings of Federico Garcia Lorca, comes the idea of duende, a powerful force of passion and vulnerability, that seems to rise from the Earth itself and that is utterly dependent on an awareness … Continue reading “Duende and Puhpowee: On Answering Your Calling”
“The Power of Love”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. Besides being a very popular title for pop songs in the ’80s, is there truly a “power” of love? Today, during this multigenerational service, we explore what love can do, and we write valentines to our beloved community.
“Tyranny and Freedom”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. What is the role of the voluntary association and the small community (like a congregation) in resisting the forces of tyranny?
“Loneliness and Community”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. In our country, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness. What role can a congregation play in countering this trend and nurturing a spirit of community?
“Brave and Besieged Bodies”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. The power struggles waged by White Supremacy and Christian Nationalism are played out on bodies: women’s bodies, trans bodies, disabled bodies, Black, Indigenous, and of Color bodies… On the anniversary of Roe v Wade, we consider how besieged bodies can also be sites of beauty, courage, and joy, and … Continue reading “Brave and Besieged Bodies”
“Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. Any list of famous UUs will include names like William Ellery Channing, Louisa May Alcott, John Adams, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, and James Reeb. Henry Whitney Bellows isn’t as well known, but he played a major role in organizing Unitarianism as a denomination. In the years after the Civil … Continue reading “Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?”
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. Amazing Peace — a traditional Carols and Scriptures service, featuring the poetry of Maya Angelou and words of Rev. Howard Thurman
“Welcome Solstice, Welcome Life”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. A service celebrating the Winter Solstice, the rebirth of the sun, and all kinds of births, based on the beloved UU hymn and the poem by Sophia Lyon Fahs, “For So the Children Come.”