Moments in life will be messy, unpleasant, wonderful, healing and everything in between. They also cannot be rushed, perfectly recreated, or exist forever – no matter how hard we try. Join us for a service focused on embracing mindful moments and the lessons they can teach us. Click here for: NEW LINK! Sunday Worship Livestream Click … Continue reading Mindful Moments
“Credo” is Latin for “I believe.” Unitarian Universalists believe that only the individual can decide what to believe. While mentoring the Coming of Age youth, the COA 25-26 Mentors were invited to develop their own Credo statements. A few of them will share how their lives have been shaped by their beliefs and how their … Continue reading I Believe
This service will celebrate and explore joy through poetry. I will share the work of contemporary poets, including several of my own poems, to suggest how poets find and write about joy, that deep sense of well-being and goodness that we experience in daily life. – David Hummon Click here for: NEW LINK! Sunday Worship Livestream … Continue reading The Poetry of Joy
AI is a genuinely useful tool. It can plan a family trip itinerary or speed up technical work, but it comes with real tradeoffs. For some, it makes work easier, while for others it represents a form of theft and oppression. Easy access to AI has also enabled a widespread lack of intentional thought in … Continue reading Staying Human in the Age of AI
While the Holy Land is bursting with news of human rights tragedies, the mere discussion of them has often been avoided, banned, considered too fraught to mention, and outright censored. Yet, we Americans among the Abrahamic faiths must grapple with what we’ve contributed to the mess, and how we’re complicit, and bear witness to our … Continue reading Stories of Palestine
We are delighted to present once again our annual Poetry Service, in which members and friends read poems of their own choosing. If you have a poem that is of special importance to you that you would like to share, please send it to Martin Newhouse and Liz Lintz at the email address below by … Continue reading Poetry Service
Join us this Sunday for the final regular service of the church program year, as we celebrate Flower Communion and explore what it might look like to plant seeds of love in our lives and in our communities. Please bring a flower to share as part of the flower communion ceremony – and if you … Continue reading Planting Seeds of Love
This Sunday we celebrate Pride month, lifting up our support for our queer and LGBTQ+ siblings. We also explore the spirituality of “every day matters” – so often it is the big and splashy events that get the focus of our appreciatoin in our lives. The every day matters too, often more than we realize. … Continue reading Every Day Matters
One of the important things we do as a spiritual and religious community is engage in spiritual practices and rituals to help us mark the major milestones and events in life. From child dedications, to weddings, to memorial services, we engage in rituals as a community to help us welcome new life, transition into a … Continue reading Coming of Age
