Our early years are a precious period and the spiritual lessons we learn then shape us for the rest of our lives. Join us in celebrating the faith formation of our children, of which we are all a part. Worship Leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Matthew Mason, and guest musician Jorge Torres. The first song we’ll … Continue reading Forming and Formation: Honoring Our Youth
We welcome back the New Horizons Jazz Band for a special music Sunday, inviting their music to stir, provoke, and move us in ways simple words cannot. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy and Matthew Mason. As always, we’ll get to do some singing. This week the songs planned are 30 Over My Head, 1009 Meditation on … Continue reading Jazz Sunday!
Is “Presence” the byproduct of mindfulness? Or is “Presence” that state of being in the proximity the the divine? Can you have one without the other? Join Brian Wise, Sarah Beekman, Sharon Arpoika, and Todd Whitely as they explore this theme through poetry, song and other vocal expression. As part of our worship service we … Continue reading Be in the Presence: On Spiritual Awareness
Jesuit priest Anthony De Mello says, “enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” What is inevitable in our lives that we should stop resisting? And what only seems inevitable but in fact we should fight like hell? Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Brian Wise, and Sabine Klein.
On this Mother’s Day we explore what journalist Anne Marie Slaughter calls “the care paradigm,” and how a religious community can be a place that truly honors and celebrates the idea that people who provide care are just as indispensable to our society as those who provide income. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Matthew Mason, and Sabine Klein.
Being a human being means constantly navigating our separateness and connectedness. What is good for the group? What is good for the individual? Where and how do we draw the lines, if such lines can even be drawn? Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy and Sharon Arpoika.
Our Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to a vision a world we make more whole and holy through connection and interdependence. However, the world we live in as well as our worshipping communities evidence that we often interact in identity-based silos that pull us apart and lead us into disconnection. Join Gregory C. Carrow-Boyd for … Continue reading Disconnect
What makes healthy and unhealthy connections to and with one another? How can growing healthier connections grow greater health beyond us out into the world? What are some of the assumptions we sometimes make about what is helpful to someone else? Why? Worship leaders this week are Rev. Erin Matteson, Todd Whiteley.
Got any plans next Saturday? It’s a very special day for Mother Earth. We don’t have to be “tree huggers” to recognize the earth needs more than a day’s worth of our attention. How do we integrate a sense of connectedness, with our attention to earth and a way of daily living? Come and explore with … Continue reading She Only Gets One Day?
Beginning today and for the next two weeks we will be focusing on connectedness. Part of recognizing “connectedness” is remembering particular dimensions and designs of creation that take us beyond the more prominent world before us of “its all about YOU.” Let’s take a minute to look at the big picture, which really is “a … Continue reading A Mightly Mosaic
