When our worlds lack the certainty and stability we humans tend to crave, how do we make our way through? Worship Leaders: Rev. Darcy Baxter and Brian Wise, Tech Maestro: Adlai Frederickson.

Popular wellness culture sells us so many ways to calm ourselves– if we breathe deeper, meditate longer, journal harder, we are told we can achieve some mythical state of perpetual “zen.” But what if human beings are not wired for calm, but for aliveness and connection that come in many different kinds of moods and … Continue reading Calm is a Con

“Happiness is fleeting but joy is grounded by grief” preached historian Kellie Carter Jackson’s brother at their sister’s memorial. In this service, we will reflect for a few minutes and then you will be invited to share your hope and your fear, your joy and your sorrow. Worship Leaders: Rev. Darcy Baxter, Robbie Edge, Melynda Rodriguez. … Continue reading Joy Grounded by Grief

Queer Chicana Poet Gloria Anzaldúa teaches, “Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. / Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.” As People of Color Unitarian Universalists, we often are building bridges between worlds, languages, cultures and our UU faith. The goal of identity based caucusing is to cultivate authentic … Continue reading Building Bridges of Love: A Call Towards an Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive, Multicultural Unitarian Universalism

We are living in baffling, scary, and stressful times– times that make it more challenging to be our best selves. What do we do when we fall short of who we hope to be and how we hope to act? Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy and Tricia Garcia. Tech Maestro: Adlai Frederickson.

Our Universalist ancestors believed that cosmic love was a building block of reality. Over these past decades, we UU’s have begun emphasizing our Universalist roots more than ever. “When someone comes into our congregations” writes UU historian Dan McKanan, “I’d like the message they hear to be ‘You have always been loved.’ ” What does … Continue reading You Have Always Been Loved

This summer, journalist and seminary graduate Krista Tippett wrote “I’m standing before the questions on my mind and heart, the questions I hear so many asking, about how to stay present inside ourselves and present to this world in its tumult and tenderness. How to orient our precious powers of attention and imagination to what, … Continue reading What Is Asking To Be Born

Sometimes love flows from us easily and other times, love requires real labor. In this contemplative service, we honor the work it takes of our psyches, souls, and bodies to take actions grounded in love in this bittersweet, brutal, and beautiful world. Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy Baxter, Matte Black, and Melynda Rodriguez. Tech Maestro: Adlai Frederickson

Poet, W. H. Auden in 1939 said:  “All I have is voice/to undo the folded lie.” Local poet, Gillian Wegener, will share the voices of several poets across time and place as she reads from the anthology America, I Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience.  “Although it was published in 2018 during the … Continue reading Poetry as an Act of Resistance….. and Hope

We honor our annual Water Communion service as a ritual of resistance and radical community building. We gather to find some soulful sustenance in our UU tradition and to recommit ourselves to nurturing the Beloved Community. Please bring a little water from some place special or mundane! Worship leaders: Rev. Darcy Baxter, Tricia Garcia, and Melynda … Continue reading In-Gathering and Water Communion