This Sunday is Youth Sunday, our special annual service that includes our beloved graduating seniors’ statements, and a bridging ritual that will mark their transition to Young Adulthood in the UU faith. The rest of the youth group will be contributing with readings, musical performances, and more. The service will focus on the ways love … Continue reading Youth Sunday
Mother’s Day can be a complex holiday. Yet, there is simple goodness in the archtypal Mother, the nurturer. This meditative service will center experiences that invite us into comfort, healing and peace. “Wading in the Water” May 10, 2020 The Rev. Heather Janules How are you? This is a seemingly simple, three-word question. How are … Continue reading Nurture Your Spirit
Wendell Berry observes that “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” As we worship from our homes, together and apart, this service will explore what makes a place sacred, the nature of sanctuary (within and beyond dedicated sanctuaries) and how we might inhabit wherever we dwell in meaningful ways. … Continue reading Sacred Space Everywhere
Earth Day invites us to consider our relationship with the environment. While the news as of late has been sobering, hope remains. Our Green Sanctuary Committee will lead this service, inviting us into spiritual connection and mutual relationship with the earth and affirming the need to act as grateful stewards. “Earth Day: Many Paths to … Continue reading Earth Day: Many Paths to Hope
There is a great irony in the fact that our worship theme for this month is Liberation. But consider how the challenges of this time bring us deeper into relationship with the many forms that liberation may take when our lives have contracted physically. It is our practice and our prayer that we find liberation … Continue reading The Paradox of Liberation
Join Us Online for Sunday Worship! https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship We turn again to the ancient story of Easter, a story of love and betrayal, hope and despair, life, death and rebirth. In this service for all ages, we reflect on the challenge of celebrating new life in this strange time and the miracle and mystery of resurrected … Continue reading Waiting for Angels: Easter Sunday
For every beginning there is an ending; just as for every ending there is a beginning. Crossing these thresholds is a sacred time of letting go of the familiar and taking a leap of trust into the unknown future. How do we honor these thresholds and cross them with intention? This service is Marianne DiBlasi’s … Continue reading Endings and Beginnings
It is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludvig van Beethoven. Our choral celebration featuring the Adult, Children’s and Youth choirs, along with guest musicians, is on hold at present, but Music Director John Kramer will present some of Beethoven’s piano sonatas along with thoughts on his music and life. Beethoven overcame deafness and … Continue reading Overcoming Adversity: Lessons from Beethoven
This is a time when all of us are learning in a tangible way that we belong to one another, that there is health and strength in balancing individualism with community care. In this month centered on “wisdom,” we turn to the wisdom of the world’s religions to guide us in what it means to … Continue reading Our Finest Hour: Love Wisdom from the World Religions
We are living through strange times. What have we learned from the Coronavirus pandemic? What is the Unitarian Universalist response? Join us on-line for our first ever streamed worship service. There will be one service at 10:30 pm. Look to your inbox on Friday for more information. Parables of the Pandemic March 15, 2020 The … Continue reading Parables of the Pandemic
