“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.
Topic: Endings
“Farewell: A Celebration of Our Time Together”
Join us for our farewell service to Rev. Diana. We will be celebrating her and her ministry in Oklahoma City and hearing from folks who have been changed by her work. Note: Next week, (March 10) is Rev. Diana’s farewell to us. Direct link to YouTube stream HERE.
“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”
“New Year, New Word”
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. We explore the Director of Lifespan Faith Development’s favorite winter holiday – new years! What do you need to leave behind in 2023? What do you want to commit to in 2024? Join us for this contemplative and ritual based service at 11:00 am.
“A House Called Tomorrow” (Bridging Service)
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. Today, we celebrate our high school graduates who are transitioning to young adulthood, along with others who are at thresholds in life.
“Earth Day: On Solastalgia”
Direct YouTube link HERE Solastalgia is a term that was coined in the early 2000s that means the feeling of distress caused by climate change. Specifically, it is a kind of homesickness for a planetary home that is changing around us, to the point where it no longer feels like “home.” On this Sunday after … Continue reading “Earth Day: On Solastalgia”
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!