Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. It seems like every day brings more bad news and it can seem overwhelming if we can’t do anything about it. In this service, Rev. Chris Rothbauer will ask the question: how do we persevere when hope is hard to find?
Direct link to YouTube stream HERE. As Unitarian Universalists, we focus not on heaven or perfection but on practicing our faith. Abstract ideas about how to live don’t really matter. It’s how we live that counts, even when that living involves a lot of falling down and failing. Today we pick up the ancient philosophical … Continue reading “Practice, Practice, Praxis”
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”
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!
The last several years of pandemic and social polarization have exposed frayed places and holes in the fabric of church-business-as-usual. This is true across congregations and faith traditions. Though shared ministry existed before these times, it has emerged as a powerful antidote to congregational and denominational splintering. However, our cultural norms (Western and UU) and … Continue reading ‘When Hope is Hard to Find, We Take Care of Us: Shared Ministry as Mutual Aid”
