What beautiful thing will you carry with you this May? The philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “In difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart.” This month as we explore the spiritual formation theme of Nurturing Beauty I invite you to find something to carry with you, a reminder about beauty that will carry you through … Continue reading Carried by Beauty – May 2022
This month’s spiritual formation theme is Awakening and I find myself asking ‘awakening to WHAT exactly?’ What are we supposed to do NOW, in this radically transformed, late COVID- (but not quite post pandemic), democracy trembling, war torn landscape of a world we find ourselves in? Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy, Haruko DeArth, and Jorge Torrez. … Continue reading Awakening to What?
Offering a slight twist on our traditional Flower Communion Easter Service, we honor not just the vibrant colors of flowers, but the comparatively bland, small seed from which they emerge. Please bring a flower and some seeds to worship! Worship Leaders: Rev. Darcy, Sharon Arpoika, and Jude Markel. Tech Chaplain: Robbie Edge. Tech Crew: Vic Whaley., Brian Wise., and Todd … Continue reading Sowing Seeds, Gathering Flowers
We’re all connected: an interdependent whole. Therefore, says UUA president Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, “covenant is our religious response to our fundamental interdependence.” We make promises about how to be together, and how to be in the world. We also fall short of honoring those promises, inviting us to repair and strengthen the strands of community. The choice … Continue reading Woven in a Single Garment of Destiny
Progress is such a clean and tidy word for a process that is often messy and bumbling. Particularly in times as intense as these past two years maybe the ONLY way we are going to “progress” is by embracing the stumbling we necessarily do. Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy, Robbie Edge, Tricia Garcia and Jude Markel. Tech … Continue reading Stumbling is the Way We Move Forward
All powerful? All knowing? A dominant strand of Christian theology teaches that God is all powerful and all knowing (omnipotent), leading humans to ask “why all the suffering then?” But what if God (whatever that word means) could be something other than all powerful and all knowing? And what is power anyway? Rev. Leroy Egenberger and Sharon Arpoika … Continue reading Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
UU’s are not terribly fond of the word “faith”–many have recollections of being told to believe in a white man in the sky. Yet faith in and connection to that which is larger is what we desperately need so that we can honestly and lovingly face all the disaster unfolding around us. Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy, … Continue reading Faith and Disaster
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” are the words recited to Christians receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. How does focusing on the ashes help us to live and love more richly, fully, and deeply? Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy, Leroy Egenberger, and Jorge Torrez. Tech … Continue reading Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
There are several varieties of love, compassion and many reasons to love. Still, at the core, what is the main purpose of love? Why does it exist? Take some quiet time to reflect on this before February 27th and come explore. Worship Leaders: Haruko DeArth, Todd Whiteley, Jude Markel and Amanda Gilbert. Tech Crew: Brian Wise. Guest … Continue reading The Core Purpose of Love
Join Rev. Erin and others for “part 2” of exploring Barbara Peacock’s book, Soul Care in African American Practice, and “widening the circle” of our understandings of spiritual practice in general, in the black tradition specifically, and regarding the practices of specific black leaders past and present. Come continue widening the welcome of black culture into your very be-ing, … Continue reading Exploring Soul Care in African American Practice – Part 2
