How can we find new ways to open the door to joy in our lives? How does joy change through the different phases of our lives? As we prepare to turn to a new year, let us consider the many ways to facilitate simple joy. Rev. Lucas Hergert, minister of the North Shore Unitarian Church … Continue reading Ages of Joy
The Christian tradition teaches us to embody, to incarnate the divine, so embody we will! Join us for our multigenerational pageant of Margaret Brown’s Christmas in the Barn. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Carol Festejo, Steve Naldoza, and Jude Markel.
Artist Jenny Odell writes, “Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily.” As we enter the darkest weeks of the year, we heed … Continue reading Do Nothing
As we enter into the darkest weeks of the year, we explore the importance of darkness in our life. Worship Leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Haruko DeArth, Sharon Arpoika, Elaine Arnold, and Jude Markel.
The human mind holds many mysteries that modern science is only beginning to understand. Popular culture and social stigma can get in the way of our mental health, and of course the current state of the world has not been helpful. Fortunately, our Unitarian Universalist faith can offer us hope and guidance as we seek … Continue reading Healing, Hope, and Guidance
What we eat actually changes the composition of our bodies–Americans are called “walking Fritos” because our diets are so full of genetically modified corn! In the middle of our fertile San Joaquin valley with all its industrialized agriculture, we focus our attention (and our taste buds) on the delicious abundance of our valley and ways of … Continue reading Pomegranate and Persimmon Communion
We revisit the mission of our congregation and ground ourselves in our unique religious tradition of not just reaching out across various kinds of borders, but also living on and into borders and boundaries. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Todd Whiteley, Haruko DeArth, and Sue Cotter.
How will we look back at this time? In the midst of this post-election week, we will pause to collect ourselves and imagine how we might look back at this time–a time of repair. Worship Leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Dee Hawksworth, Steve Naldoza, and Jorge Torrez.
In a culture that works hard to pay minimal attention to death, even in the midst of the mass death of a pandemic, we will honor our beloveds who have died, as well as the over 1.16 million people confirmed dead from COVID. Worship associates this week are Rev. Darcy, Haruko DeArth, Sharon Arpoika, and Jorge Torrez.
How we love order! A sense of order often brings us feelings of safety and security. But many different wisdom traditions affirm that individuals, communities, and yes maybe even whole nations, may need to endure periods of disorder so that something greater (more enlightened even?) can be achieved. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Todd Whiteley, … Continue reading Lessons for Surviving Chaos
