Hymn, Sermon, Prayer, and Benediction for Sunday March 29 “Elephants and Birds:  Truth, Comfort, and Generosity”  Sermon and prayer created for Sunday March 29, 2020, by Rev. Alex McGee, MDiv, BCC, for TJMC UU. This March 29 sermon is also available as a PDF: SERMON FOR TJMC UU MARCH 29.  Please consider printing it and […]

Join Leia via Zoom this Sunday for Children’s Worship! All ages are welcome to participate in this service that will include story, song and sharing. Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/258445773 +1 253 215 8782 US +1 301 715 8592 US This is our first experiment worshiping online together in a live format. Find a comfy place […]

Service is cancelled today, but we still have the benefit of thoughts from Rev. Charlotte Lehmann, the settled minister serving Bull Run UU in Manassas, VA since 2018. She has been an interim minister, a director of religious education, and is a life-long UU. Prior to responding to a call to ministry, Rev. Charlotte was […]

Rev. Alex McGee led this worship service. Today’s service educates and inspires about the work of IMPACT. Over the course of the year, this program organizes face to face conversations about community needs; listening to other people’s stories; making commitments for long term benefits; and embracing our duty and responsibility as citizens. As a result […]

     We all face grief at times in our lives–whether for the death of one we love, ruptured relationship, job loss, an empty nest, the end of work life, leaving the familiar, even “the way church used to be”–grief comes to us all. What do we do with the feeling that the grief seems endless? What can help […]

We live in very interesting times calling forth all of our wisdom to listen ever deeper to our heart’s calling. Now is the time to do what you have come here to do. Now is the time to listen to call, to refine your priorities, to join with like-minded people and to create the world […]

Board President Lorie Craddock and Worship Weaver Margo Gill led our service. The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing. It doesn’t interest me how old […]

Deepening your faith journey: From Rev. Alex: “Some of you asked me to share the names of the books I referred to in the Feb 9 sermon on Faith. Here they are:” Engaging Our Theological Diversity by the Commission on Appraisal of the UUA, 2005. Fluent in Faith By Nieuwejaar (Skinner House Books, 2015) Faith Without Certainty by Paul […]

This week we welcome guest speaker Dr. Larycia Hawkins. Larycia Hawkins is the Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a lecturer at the University of Virginia where she is a political scientist, public speaker, and embodied solidarity activist. Dr. Hawkins’s research and scholarship regards intersectionality of sociopolitical […]

Keith Kron from the Unitarian Universalist Association Transitions Office will lead Sunday worship. Rev. Kron is the Transitions Coordinator at the UUA, where he helps congregations through times of change and interim ministries. The service will be followed by lunch and a time for questions and answers about our next steps in settled ministry. Child […]