The world, our culture, has so many ideas about who we are, about who we should be. The truth is, this is one thing we actually have control over. Let’s explore the possibilities of who we could be, how we could love each other more deeply, if we asked questions of ourselves and allowed Spirit … Continue reading Who Do You Want to Be?

Efforts to maintain composure and poise can sometimes backfire, especially when those practices are learned responses for surviving traumatic experiences and childhoods. In an effort to bring a whole body consciousness to my poetics and my life, I’ve started shifting how I write poetry. Less editing and overthinking–and more flow! This sermon is a poetry … Continue reading What Do You Want to Be?

Who or what influences who we are religiously? Today Sharon Arpoika will name a few UU ministers, musicians, and storytellers who have played a part in shaping who she is as a Unitarian Universalist.  Worship Leaders:  Sharon Arpoika, Robbie Edge, Jude Markel.  Tech Maestro, Cherie T. Mendoza

There is a universal recognition throughout the wisdom traditions that sacredness is held in nature. The ways in which we are intricately woven together, more in a circle than a hierarchy – human beings and all the other realms of creation. Come remember and contemplate the ways creation compassionately coaxes and calls us into new … Continue reading Cradled in Creation, Cultivating a Reciprocal Compassion

Join us for a special music Sunday, where the music of Jude Markel will serve as our spiritual center piece (even more so than usual!).  To make something special requires the work of relationship and collaboration.  Come celebrate all the ways our collaboration with Jude has created life sustaining beauty these past nearly 4 years … Continue reading To Make Something Special