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
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship What changes when we come to the world with a queer lens?
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Shame, blame and responsibility in an interconnected world
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Rapid, human-caused climate change is now well underway at a global scale. How will this emerging crisis affect our lives and those of future generations, if humanity continues on its current path? What specific actions can we take, especially as individuals, to mitigate its worst impacts? Is it too late?
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship We have two sets of clues that can guide us in foreseeing how life may change after the pandemic subsides. One is the experience we have had over the past few months of dealing with this scourge; the other is our history with previous plagues. Each of these will be … Continue reading Life After Covid-19
