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
Bulbs, seeds, flowers, weeds. Gardens contain invitations and lessons for life. Earth, by design, invites us to see and celebrate the worth and beauty, strength and resilience, inherent in all. Come explore and celebrate what Spring has to show and teach us. Part of this will include participating in our Flower Communion tradition! And, the … Continue reading Invitations from the Garden
There are a variety of laborers needed for any sanctuary. Diversity is critical not only concerning the models, but in regard to the builders. What kind of sanctuary builder are you? Rev. Erin Matteson, Haruko DeArth, and Bernadette Burns are leading worship this Sunday.
Regardless of the many models and dimensions, what are the common things all sanctuaries should share? Come explore “building blocks” for the outside, or common discoveries once you enter in…. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Erin Matteson, Avonelle Tomlinson, and debee loyd.
