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
Reason and science, intuition and reverence—which shape your life and the life of your congregation most? This Sunday, we will explore the strengths and limitations of traditional religious humanism and consider whether we agree with William R. Murray’s view that “Humanistic Religious Naturalism” is the religious humanism of the 21st century. Click here for: NEW … Continue reading Reason and Reverence: Foundations of a New Religious Humanism
Filk music is the folk music of Science Fiction fandom, broadly constructed. It’s a vibrant community of songwriters, composers, musicians and listeners creating new lyrics to popular songs, unique haunting melodies, and more. And in its themes, and even more in its community, it aligns strongly with UU values, with love at the center. Click … Continue reading Filk Music as an Expression of UU Values
Join us for our annual Summer Hymn Sing! Come ready to lift your voice in community and sing out your favorite hymns from our UU hymnals. Click here for: NEW LINK! Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order of Service
The kindred spiritual dualities of ephemerality and permanence, of light and darkness, of life and death, of mortality and immortality, of the earth and the heavens have been a constant thread woven through the tapestries of spiritual beliefs of many cultures across many thousands of years. The symbolism of these dualities help us to begin … Continue reading The Spiritual Duality of Ephemerality and Permanence: From Winchester to Rome and from Dante to the (Grateful) Dead
“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
