“Change is inevitable. Transformation is our choice.” With the start of an interim ministry, this congregation is embarking on a somewhat new approach to shared ministry. This time may be a totally new experience for persons who have never experienced an interim period after the departure of a settled minister. For those who have known … Continue reading The Interim Time: What’s It All About?
Whether it is seasons, life passages, governments, ministries — the only constant is change. Join us as we reflect on how to stay grounded and spiritually nourished when the ground beneath our feet is shifting. Zoom Service Recording
On this Sunday before Memorial Day, we will honor those who died while defending America’s values. And we’ll look at ways that the UU value of pluralism is now under attack by some forces in this country and abroad. Given this threat, how can we continue to build the Beloved Community and a society where … Continue reading Pluralism Under Attack: What Can We Do
Polyphony—the interweaving of distinct melodies—is an apt metaphor for our UU quest to explore, question and honor the world’s many paths toward spiritual and moral truths. With Service Associates Clare-Marie Wall and Eric Williams. Zoom Service Recording
Our minds constantly view and interpret our selves, our surroundings, and the life situations we face. Unfortunately, those busy minds have unrecognized limits and misconceptions, including ideas about who we are. This Sunday, we’ll consider a few of the many ways we can challenge and expand our minds so that we can know more fully … Continue reading Changing Our Minds About Who We Are
Our beloved country, with all its promise and all its failings, is now one election away from slipping into autocracy; an election that many of us feel will lead to a higher road for the future or a much lower one. How did we get here? Will our democracy and our dreams survive? What can … Continue reading Justice & Equity
Join us in the sanctuary or on Zoom this morning to contemplate the beautiful mystery of life. We will prepare our hearts for the new year with a flowing hour of music, readings, poetry, meditation, and a simple ceremony releasing the old to create space for the new. Julie Morris on piano. On zoom and … Continue reading Flowing into the Mystery
Join us for the 11th BVUUF Poetry Service. We will paint pictures on heart as we listen to poems and music, charting a course from sorrow and grief to joy. Sorry, no recording for this service is available.
Earth Day: Living Local. Our Transcendentalist Unitarian ancestors were deeply connected to the natural world around them, finding ‘a leaf of grass no less than the journey-work of stars’. (Walt Whitman) On this Earth Day, we’ll revel in the beauty of our locale, and create a climate ribbon tree to commemorate what we love and … Continue reading Earth Day: Living Local
Our society has taught most of us to focus on what is rational, scientifically provable, and part of our conscious minds. But inside us, as every psychiatrist since at least the time of Freud has acknowledged, there is much more intelligence that can have great bearing on who we are and what we do with … Continue reading What’s Inside Us: Trusting Our Dreams and Intuitions.
