Transformation requires us both to let go and to embrace. Church leader and poet Pat Egenberger will share several of her poems on the theme of grief and loss, hoping to inspire us all to use the medium of writing to address sorrows that might lie below the surface. Worship Leaders this week are Brian … Continue reading Finding Our Way Through Transformation
Unitarian Universalists have a strong sense that we are all connected. Practicing Ubuntu is a way we can live out our seventh principle of respecting the interconnected web of life–the one of which we are all a part. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy Baxter, Debbie Adair Soro, and Haruko DeArth.
Our guest speaker this week is Debbie Adair Soro. She is a professional educator with the Stanislaus County Office of Education. She joined SCOE in 2016 after working for Modesto City Schools as a high school English teacher for 24 years. She was one of ten recipients of the Woman of the Year award in 2016, presented by Stanislaus County Commission for Women. She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Epsilon Nu Chapter, and she is the Educational and Community Outreach Board Member for MoPride. She’s also been a guest director at the Gallo Center for the Arts, directing the drama, “The Sirens,” in May 2016. This was a successful fundraiser for The Haven Women’s Center. And, she has an amazing 18 year old son who is a freshman at UC Santa Cruz!
Chaos and order, messiness and tidiness, holding and falling apart. The spiritual path requires engaging with these opposite, (or perhaps complimentary?) forces in our life. Worship leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Haruko DeArth, and guest musician Jorge Torres.
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
