This month we are exploring the image of Roots. I am especially moved by the images on the altar in which glass jars show the roots which support these plants and draw up nourishment from the water. Today I am enquiring about our spiritual roots. I am encouraging all of...
One of the “touchstone” services we return to year after year – Ancestors Sunday. It is a multigenerational service, the ceremony of child dedication will be offered, and the choir will be singing. [Remember: our choir rehearses in the sanctuary on Thursday evenings, starting at 7:15. If you love music,...
For the last Sunday of the month, September 24th, we will be settled into our two-service, two-RE routine, and will be finishing up our playing with the metaphor/image of the bowl. Rev. Wik will be preaching, and our choir will once again sing. [Remember: our choir rehearses in the sanctuary...
In our worship life for the past several years we have participated in a program called “Soul Matters.” Developed at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY, Soul Matters provides monthly themes as a way to help focus worship so as to correct the all-too frequent model of jumping around week-to-week...
I have always loved the story Leia just read. I first heard it years and years ago, and it touched me then. All these years later it continues to move me. One of the reasons I so love that story is because I am that pot with a crack in...
A few weeks back I quietly celebrated one of the high holy days, if you will, of my own, personal liturgical calendar. August 8 marks the anniversary of an event that took place in 1974 – a young, French wire walker named Phillipe Petit strung a cable between the north and south...
Before the arrival of the Klan in July, and again in leading up to tomorrow’s alt-right rally, I have said that staying away from the center of things is a perfectly reasonable response. “Don’t give them any attention,” many of you have said, and there are lots of others who...
For years it has been our practice for a team of lay people to work collaboratively with our ordained clergy in both creating and facilitating our Sunday morning worship experiences in the sanctuary. Maybe you have felt called to this ministry, yet don’t feel comfortable speaking in front of groups...
There has been a lot of discussion, and some confusion, about what is happening tomorrow to respond to the presence of the Klan in our city. There are lists of choices for you to consider. Some have seen this as a sign of disunity, a disturbing demonstration of our inability...
“Rural Voices” Good morning. The sermon topic that was advertised for this morning was about chapters of life and how to live in a spiritually full way at each stage. I realized over the last few days that Erik covered that somewhat last week and I covered it in my...
