“Chaos and Love: One Step at a Time” By Rev. Alexandra McGee Followed by words by Wendy Repass, Worship Weaver This text served as a general outline for my words, which became somewhat extemporaneous. Today we have a sermon in two parts. After I reflect on the nature of chaos,...
This is the text of the reflection I offered to the congregation. It is a continuation of my response to a blatantly racist note delivered anonymously to our Director of Administration and Finance, Christina Rivera. Here is a link to the immediate response of senior congregational leadership (which includes a...
This is the text of the entire service held Wednesday evening, February 28, 2018. It was to have been a service celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Congregation — there was to have been a time for families together, a community dinner, a service of celebration, and …...
These are the Opening and Parting Words Lorie Craddock wrote for the service on Sunday, January 21, 2018 — “When There Are No Leaves Nor Fruit.” OPENING WORDS I’m coming to the end of my current stage of parenting. My children are 16, 18 and 20 and they are either...
There’s this odd little story in the Christian scriptures, recorded in the gospels of both Mark and Matthew. Jesus goes over to a fig tree to get some figs to share with his friends, but there are no figs. Only leaves. So Jesus, perhaps in a fit of pique, says...
Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day. Here is a quote from MLK’s nephew, Isaac Newton Farris, Jr., who spoke this past Friday at the White House: He said: “If my uncle were here today, the first thing he would say is, “What are we or what are you doing for...
On Sunday, November 3rd, 2017, I spoke with the some of the children of our congregation. Of course, the adults were welcomed to listen in, too. I told them a story — about getting lost on a hike and what it was that “grounded” me during that ordeal. I also...
Chalice Lighting: The mystic Evelyn Underhill wrote, “The Incarnation, which is for popular Christianity synonymous with the historical birth and earthly life of Christ, is for the mystic not only this but also a perpetual Cosmic and personal process. It is an everlasting bringing forth, in the universe and also...
If Nikuyah Walker were a white man, rather than a woman of color, the article that appeared in The Daily Progress on Saturday, November 4, 2017 would have been quite different. We would have read about his passionate engagement with city officials. There might have been an acknowledgment that he...
This service was part of the second UU White Supremacy Teach-In, which encouraged (and challenged) UU congregations around the country to look intentionally and explicitly at the ways we all participate in white supremacy culture. Peter Walpole contributed an original piece for the Opening Words, “Three Fifths Compromise.” I’m want...
