On this Sunday after Thanksgiving, we will explore the nature of gratitude as we experience it in these unsettled times. Worship Weavers Laura Horn and Hayley Owens offer an hour of community wisdom, featuring the voices from our congregation, sharing their insights. All are welcome! Would you like to light the chalice for community worship? […]
with Revs. Linda Olson Peebles and Leia Durland-Jones. As we approach a Thanksgiving that may be different from others we know, due to worry about getting together during the pandemic – our congregation will invite young and old to gather on-line for a celebration. This is the annual Touchstone Service of sharing bread which we will […]
This is an age-old question. The hurt of a personal pain, one that has touched the heart, is the hardest damage to repair. Rev. Linda will share reflections, and there will be poetry, music, and art to hold us in a healing hour. This Sunday the Social Action Collection is designated to be given to […]
10 AM SERVICE: Don’t Run Away from the Hard Work of Healing! with Rev. Leia Durland-Jones and Caroline Heins Chapel includes a chalice lighting, hymns and the sharing of joys and sorrows. Our faith reminds us that healing takes work. After a fight with someone, it’s easy to never want to see that person again. […]
11 AM Service. We waited in lines, we worried about mailed-in ballots being counted. We have been filled with such anxiety and pain in our nation, it is hard to wait and to worry to find out what is in our future. Rev. Linda will preach, and whether or not we know the winners five […]
(I have been asked for a text of the words I spoke this morning. Because I had prepared with handwritten notes, what you find below is a restatement of what I said this morning but might be worded differently. Please forgive lack of punctuation and typos – my computer is in the shop and so […]
Mainstream American culture acts as if everything important happened today, or will happen in the near future, like a car driving down the highway with no rearview mirror. Yet the majority of other world cultures know that our past is intimately intertwined with the present. Día de los Muertos, and festivals like it, are a […]
Read the Order of service. In 2007 the Unitarian Universalist Association began a national marketing campaign which had as its tagline: “Nurture your spirit; help heal the world.” This might sound like a grandiose objective, were it not for that first word, “help …” When we set our goal as helping to heal the world we […]
Read the Order of Service. Am I in the right sanctuary? I can see that some of you’re wondering. Isn’t this a Unitarian Universalistcongregation? What’s all this talk about “repentance” and “sin” and “God”? In some religious traditions you don’t talk openly about sex, for instance, or social justice. In ours …? Yet we know – or […]
Read the Order of service. Most of us take a lot of care to keep our most wounded, most vulnerable parts of ourselves as out of sight as possible. We want to show the world our strengths, not our weaknesses. Yet all deep spiritualties agree that our woundedness is, paradoxically, our greatest strength. Can our wounds […]
