It begins with a stoning and it ends with a stoning, and in between there are some important teachings about truth and judgement, and there’s one big challenge.  That’s my 15-second synopsis of the 8th chapter of the Gospel of John, the passage my friend, and your pastor, suggested that each of us preach from this […]

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 […]

As the United Nations works for human rights, how does our faith intersect to call us to action?  As October 24 is United Nations Day, and the Unitarian Universalist Association has an office at the United Nations, we will reflect on healing through policy change. [Note:  Rev. Alex McGee will be preaching.] Theme Question:  What […]

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 […]

Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe, While Spiraling Outwards For Infinity Through The lens Of time, And into A sea Of stars And Lucid Dreams. That was Suzy Kassem poem, “Circle of Life.” The Autumnal Equinox was this past Thursday. It’s one […]

Read the Order of Service. Unlike the vast majority of religious traditions, the Unitarian Universalist faith tradition is not held together by creeds – commonly held beliefs – but by covenant – the promises we make to one another in community.  It has been this way since at least 1648 when our Congregational ancestors drafted “The […]

Read the Order of Service. Our annual Balloon Sunday is a celebration of another way we live community — each of the dozens of balloons adorning the sanctuary is filled with the same “breath,” yet each remains unique unto itself.  When we release them to fly to the sanctuary ceiling we remind ourselves that we, too, […]

Read the Order of Service. With the start of a new school year our congregation feels as if it’s starting off on a new year, too.  Each year we symbolize this “ingathering” through the creation of a common pool of water as part of our “water communion” service.  Everyone is encouraged to bring a small container […]