Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The use of police force against African Americans and other marginalized communities is one of the many catalysts to rising civil unrest, seemingly a conflict between efforts to “defund the police” and “back the blue.” Yet, like many social struggles, things are not quite this simple. This service will explore … Continue reading Whose Laws and What Order? Police, BLM and Us
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship This Sunday, our service will be led by a number of guest speakers, organized by the Unitarian Universalist Assocation, to help us spiritually prepare for the upcoming national election and to inspire us to defend our values long into the future. They write: “In these midst of global pandemic, rising … Continue reading Vote Love, Defeat Hate: Organizing for the Long Haul
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Individuals sometimes make decisions through a list of pros and cons. Groups sometimes make decisions through use of agendas and voting. These are fine tools…but sometimes the way forward is more complex and nuanced than a simple up or down vote. Returning to Susan Beaumont’s book How to Lead When … Continue reading Listening with a Spiritual Ear: Discernment
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Last week, we explored the powerful transformations that can take place in liminal time, the time in-between one thing and the next. Each year, the Jewish people intentionally practice living into liminal time through the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Between these two sacred holidays, we … Continue reading Whole Again: The Renewal of Yom Kippur
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Human life is defined by arrivals and departures from states of being – birth to death, night to day, Summer to Autumn. But so much happens in the spaces inbetween, the liminal spaces. As we continue in this time in-between with the pandemic, this service will reflect on the spiritual … Continue reading Sacred Liminality
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship It is our annual ritual, gathering from our summer days to begin a new congregational year together. We pour water into a common bowl, celebrating the earth and symbolizing that we are all “small streams pooling into one beautiful body.”
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship For many years we have gathered at summer’s end to bless – not the animals – but the relationship we have with them, domestic and wild. This year as shelters have emptied out during quarantines, and the company of animals sought, we not only bless our animal companions, but give … Continue reading Animal Blessing
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The “sweet spot” in tennis where the player is almost unaware that an impact has occurred on the racket. What is the “sweet spot” of a spiritual community? Think about a community where the unexpected curve balls that life throws at you are absorbed and we emerge as better individuals; … Continue reading The “Sweet Spot” in a Spiritual Community
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Just as Christian fundamentalists who reject evolution as incompatible with the Bible seem to be constrained by a simplistic view of science, perhaps scientists who reject all religion as incompatible with science are limited by too simplistic a view of religion. But the essential truth of evolution is that over … Continue reading Religion and Evolution, or Evolution of Religion
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Sometimes it is hard to concentrate on what binds us together and examining differences can help with understanding. There is a very strong likelihood that most WUS parishioners have little, if any, knowledge of Unitarianism as practiced in Transylvania. Today we will explore those differences in order to forge stronger … Continue reading Unitarianism in Transylvania
