Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship This past year, a number of members of the WUS community explored how spiritual growth can enhance our leadership and how leading and serving can also be spiritual practices. This was done through the adult religious education program Harvest the Power. This service will reflect on some of the critical lessons … Continue reading Harvest the Power
This Sunday, attendees of the WUS service are invited to “road trip” and worship with First Church of Salem, MA. The service will be led by the Rev. Laura Randall, Associate Director of Development for Congregation Relations with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, who will reflect on lessons learned through the UUSC’s international partnerships.
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Stories are at the heart of human communities and carry meaning from person to person, generation to generation. As we continue to explore Susan Beaumont’s book “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going,” this service will explore the touchstone stories that contribute to the identity of a … Continue reading What We Do Matters: Sacred Storytelling
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship In this time of celebrating Earth Day, this service will explore how we can pay better attention to our precious planet and use our voices and our actions as reverent advocates for our physical and spiritual home. This service will be co-led by members of our Green Sanctuary team and our … Continue reading The Earth Speaks
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship There has been a terrible mistake – Eleanor Shellstrop learns she has died and gone to the Good Place but has not actually done any of the virtuous deeds to be there. Thus begins the television show “The Good Place,” inviting its viewers to consider the nature of the afterlife, mistakes … Continue reading The Good Place
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Perhaps there are children in your household who ask “Why do we go to church?” Perhaps when you were a child, you asked that same question. As the Winchester Unitarian Society considers its next chapter in religious education for our youngest community members, this service will invite us to consider the … Continue reading “To Touch Inward Springs”: Envisioning Faith Formation
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The ancient Easter story of death and resurrection becomes new each year as understood through the stories of our lives. This Easter service will recall the Christian story of Jesus’s rebirth and will consider the themes of preparation, transition and renewal in our time. Log on wearing your Easter best! Fancy … Continue reading The Growing Edge: An Easter Service
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship There are many different cultural and religious traditions that feed into our hymnals. To name just a few, they include German Lutheran hymns of the reformation, Jewish hymns, Shaker and Quaker hymns of the 19th century, and contemporary hymns both composed by living Unitarian Universalists and borrowed from the popular music … Continue reading Music Sunday – The Hymns We Sing
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship People think of faith communities as institutions centered on ethereal concepts, such as spiritual beliefs and moral values. They are…and they also function in the everyday world as non-profit employers. A past hiring decision by the Unitarian Universalist Association sparked a multi-year process examining the gap between the UUA’s professed objectives … Continue reading Widening the Circle
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Is Heinrich Heine right when he states “People in…old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions”? Many would say that faith communities are still centered on deeply-held convictions. This naturally leads to a curious question: If we were “convicted” of Unitarian Universalism, what would be the evidence? In this month … Continue reading Convicted of Unitarian Universalism
