“Feet of Clay: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, UUs, and July 4” On this July 4 weekend, nearly 250 years after the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, we explore the legacies, good and bad, that the founders left us and where we are on fulfilling our ideals of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, … Continue reading Lay-Led Summer Worship
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. On this Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate the many individuals who keep our chalice burning bright: our volunteers, lay leaders, and staff. We will also take a look back at the period of the pandemic and ask, “What did we learn? How have we changed?”
Direct YouTube link HERE Today we celebrate the Flower Ceremony, one of Unitarian Universalism’s most beloved, original rituals, in which we recognize the beauty and power of diversity.
Direct YouTube link HERE This year, the religious holidays of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter all intersect. Ramadan is associated with revelation, Passover with redemption, and Easter with resurrection. But there’s another “R” word that connects all these things – “real.” Using the story of “The Velveteen Rabbit,” we’ll explore what it means “to be real” … Continue reading “Got to be Real”
Direct link to YouTube Livestream HERE. Ramadan, a time of fasting, prayer, and introspection for Muslims, begins this weekend. We are honored to have Adam Soltani, Executive Director of CAIR Oklahoma, as our guest. Adam will share with us some insights into this extremely important holiday, which is celebrated by over 1 billion people around … Continue reading “Welcome Ramadan! Welcome Guests!”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE Whether you love or hate Shel Silverstein’s 1964 book, The Giving Tree, it offers an interesting place to begin a discussion of the nature of giving. What does it mean to take and to give? When is giving unhealthy and when is it life-affirming and mutually beneficial? Who or what … Continue reading Giving Trees
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!
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)
