In-person and streaming to YouTube. Direct link to live stream HERE. Register to attend in-person HERE (goes live on Wednesday, closes Sunday at 9:00) On this first Sunday returning to an in-person RE program for children and youth, we will pause to honor all the teachers who have given so much of themselves over the … Continue reading Tending the Fire: Honoring Teachers
Register to attend in-person here. Join us for our first truly multiplatform service, in-person in the sanctuary and live-streaming on YouTube! The great Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh once said that, when he died, he would like a plaque upon his grave with the words, “I’m not in here. And I’m not out there either.” … Continue reading We Are Not In Here. And We’re Not Out There Either. — In-person in the sanctuary and streaming to YouTube!
Our seventh principle affirms the interdependent web of all existence. Often, we consider this principle through the lens of a human-centered ecology, or as humans at the center of an interdependent web, human agents or observers within nature. But by putting the focus on ourselves, as a particular species or as individuals, we misunderstand the … Continue reading On Love and Interdependence – On YouTube!
Today we join with the UUA’s Side With Love to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v Wade and to reflect on our faith’s history and theology related to reproductive justice.
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
In a sermon near the beginning of the pandemic, we explored the ways that many of us have experienced the ongoing COVID crisis as a form of “ambiguous loss.” Dr. Pauline Boss coined this term, ambiguous loss, back in the 1970s, to describe a kind of loss in which there is either a physical absence … Continue reading Ambiguous Loss (Part II)
This will be an online (Zoom) service only. During this reflective service, we’ll engage in a gratitude practice and look back on the past year to name the things that brought us light, joy, and hope. Because we will be breaking out into small groups during this service, there will be no virtual coffee hour … Continue reading These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
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
