Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau articulated the moral obligation to disrupt systems of oppression. This Sunday, we consider when and how disruption is a useful, necessary form of resistance. Direct link to service.
Resistance isn’t perfection. It is showing up. It is caring. It’s conversations and Facebook statuses and local purchases. Show up January 11th to hear about the ways we can do our best to be the resistance. Direct link to service. Rev. Ren Pasco is a community minister in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She graduated from … Continue reading “Doing the Best We Can”
Patterns, habits, and culture can bring stability to our lives. They can also anchor us in outdated ways of thinking and doing. With the new year, we reflect on ways of letting go of what no longer serves us. Direct link to service.
This moment in humanity feels dark and overwhelming. The message on Sunday will focus on lament, covenant, and how reaching out into the dark can bring about hope and change. Direct link to service.
As a holiday, Labor Day itself has never really meant much to me. Typically known as a blue-collar holiday, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. But for myself and many others, it’s more known for the wild philosophies, smart wit, and personal interpretations of a former … Continue reading “Labor Day Service”
Not the monarch kind of King, bare with me…. We are in a struggle for saving Democracy from its possible post-modern growing pains. David Brooks writes in the Opinion Section of the New York Times, “The task… is to build a new cultural consensus that is democratic but also morally coherent. My guess, and it … Continue reading “We Need a New King”
For my final sermon here at First Unitarian, I’d like to share some thoughts about change and how we deal with it. I’ll concentrate on change in the church, especially the changing religious landscape in the United States, and corresponding changes within Unitarian Universalism. Will we meet these changes with hope and creativity? Or will … Continue reading “New Occasions Teach New Duties: Navigating Change”
You might call this my “icebreaker sermon.” Looking back on my life, I realize that much of it has been experimental. One of those experiments involved leaving UU ministry for two years, and going to live in a women’s monastic community. Why did I do this, what did I learn – and what led me … Continue reading “What I Learned from the Sisters”
How do we become who we are? Not in a vacuum. We are not self-made despite our commitment to making informed choices for ourselves. Rather we grow in the soil of community and through the sense of connection that is relational power. Explore with Frederick Douglass, Starhawk, Saul Alinski and the Velveteen Rabbit the significance … Continue reading Becoming in Community: Claiming Relational Power
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.
