Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Where Do We Go From Here?
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Celebrating Life in the Valley of the Shadow: A Service of Remembrance
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Witnessing African-American Music, a Music Sunday
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
