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

Adrienne Maree Brown describes “emergence as the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.” How can UUs learn from birds in synchronized flight, entangled oak tree roots and the structure of dandelions and fungi and apply these lessons in biomimicry to our collective organizing? Worship Leaders: Sharon Arpoika … Continue reading Wings, Roots and Seeds: Emergent Wisdom from the Interdependent Web

What is it about a sunrise? What is it about good community? Have you ever had experiences with the sense something is around you, within you, comforting you, inviting you? Something subtle, gentle, that refuses to be demanding? Come hear some of my everyday real life stories, tap into your own. Let’s explore together. Guest Minister: … Continue reading Pondering Presence

It’s a challenging time in our nation and in the world. It can be downright discouraging at times. There is a need for standing up, and getting out into the streets with others. And, there is just as much need for other things as well. If you look around, what are you noticing? If folks, … Continue reading Good People Everywhere

This Sunday, we gather not only in spirit but in song as we honor and say goodbye to our beloved musician, Magdalene. After years of sharing her incredible talent and heart with our community, Magdalene will lead us one last time—not with a sermon, but through the universal language of music. Her farewell gift to … Continue reading Magdalene Says Farewell

Poet June Jordan reminded us, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Pastor Julian Soto told us, “all of us need all of us to make it.” What does our Unitarian Universalist faith tell us in times such as these? Worship Leaders:  Rev. Kevin Mann, Sharon Arpoika, and Magdalene Myint.  Tech Maestro: Todd Whiteley.