Flower Ceremony
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.
Topic: Community
“Got to be Real”
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”
“Welcome Ramadan! Welcome Guests!”
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!”
Giving Trees
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
Tending the Fire: Honoring Teachers
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
We Are Not In Here. And We’re Not Out There Either. — In-person in the sanctuary and streaming to YouTube!
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!
On Love and Interdependence – On 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!
Ambiguous Loss (Part II)
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)
What We Bring to the Table
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
Covenant Incarnate
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