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The Spirtuality of Mending and Making Do

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 10.17.2021 OOS Our beliefs about ultimate reality often translate into how we live our day-to-day lives. What spiritual lessons can we learn from those who repair and rely on creativity and ingenuity?

Bear Witness: Save Lives

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 10.10.2021 OOS In order to tell our stories, it is vital that we are able to trust that people will be still and bear witness to us, acknowledge and accept what we share. We must be present with one another with an empathy that … Continue reading Bear Witness: Save Lives

Unlocking the Power of Covenant

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 10.03.2021 OOS Unitarian Universalism is a faith defined by freedom, the freedom to believe according to one’s conscience and experience. It is not a creed but covenant that holds such a diverse spiritual community together. The UUA’s Commission on Appraisal explored “the power of … Continue reading Unlocking the Power of Covenant

Emergent Strategy

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 09.26.2021 OOS “Emergent Strategy” has been called “radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.” Drawing from the work of science-fiction author Octavia Butler and organizational consultant Margaret Wheatley, writer, organizer and “pleasure activist” adrienne maree brown articulates … Continue reading Emergent Strategy

Hot Rocks and Conscience Letters: A Modern Parable of Repentance

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 09.19.2021 OOS We will gather soon after Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, an annual observance that moves us to consider how we have harmed others and to seek amends. A contemporary story from a US National Park offers insight into the strength … Continue reading Hot Rocks and Conscience Letters: A Modern Parable of Repentance

“Until We Are Together Again”: Water Communion

Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: Water Communion OOS Water Communion is a yearly celebration of the gifts and lessons of the earth and the return to community. This year, we come together in yet another new way, with some gathering in the sanctuary, some at home, all together. What … Continue reading “Until We Are Together Again”: Water Communion

Celebrating the Web of Life: An Animal Blessing Service

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship It is our annual tradition, honoring the furry, tailed, finned, scaled, feathered creatures with whom we share this marvelous planet. We will gather in person outdoors – weather and covid permitting – and friendly and vaccinated companion animals are welcome. There will be treats and cool water available. We will also … Continue reading Celebrating the Web of Life: An Animal Blessing Service

The Perils of Polarization

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship American political discourse has become intensely polarized. On even apparently neutral issues, there is a Republican side and a Democratic side. As Unitarian-Universalists we value the free and responsible search for truth, but our politics seems to embody the exact opposite. How did this happen? How did we get this way? … Continue reading The Perils of Polarization