Join us this Sunday for an all-ages service that never disappoints – our annual Paper Bag Pageant! It’s a raucous good time at the nativity in this fun, no-rehearsal Christmas pageant that includes everyone – babies, elders, and everyone in between. Costumes are provided, but feel free to come dressed in your favorite costume – … Continue reading Paper Bag Pageant
This special Music Sunday features the premiere of the Freedom and Democracy Suite by Music Director John Kramer. This five-movement cantata for choir, small ensemble, and soloists explores multiple aspects of our democratic experiment, how it has worked to expand rights for its citizenry, and how those rights are being threatened today. The work includes … Continue reading Music Sunday
People needing to leave their home countries for safety or for work is ongoing challenge experienced by our country and the broader world. Join us this Sunday as we deconstruct the “immigration” narrative and explore an approach to helping one another that is supported by our Unitarian Universalist values. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click … Continue reading Misplaced, Displaced, and Dehumanized
This season of the year, so rich in darkness, can be a time that nourishes our spirit, when we let it. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order of Service
Our All Ages service this Sunday will feature the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, which was used by the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) to open and close major gatherings or meetings. We will explore our connection with nature and the universe as we reflect together on how interdependence and gratitude connect and intertwine. Don’t forget … Continue reading Gratitude: Nature & Interdependence
People generally aren’t “against” the idea of gratitude, even as perhaps some of us might disagree over what we should be grateful for. It’s generally accepted in our culture that gratitude is a good thing. And yet it’s also not something we talk about as a practice to embrace. While we might complain about those … Continue reading Nurturing Gratitude
We gather this Sunday for our annual “Remembrance” service, where we honor and reflect on those in our lives who have died. You are invited to bring a photo or small memento to place on the chancel during the service if you wish. If you wish to have a loved one who has died named … Continue reading Remembrance
Using a few powerful stories, this service will examine the dynamics of losing our way, of finding and seeking. Grounded in the power of community and unconditional love, we’ll ask have you or someone you’ve loved ever been lost and if you have you ever been found? Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order … Continue reading Lost and Found
Knowledge is a valuable and important thing, particularly so in Western culture. We have perhaps come to overvalue the certainty of knowing though, valuing that certainty, and the sense of control it can sometimes offer. This Sunday we will explore the gifts of not-knowing, and the idea of perhaps leaning into “not-knowing” as a skill … Continue reading The Gifts of Not-Knowing
Many versions of the Buddhist Loving-Kindness meditation ask us to offer care and compassion to someone with whom we’re in conflict or who is a challenge for us in our lives. This is a good practice, and, in this day and age in our country, and, more is needed, something needs to be paired with … Continue reading Holy No
