This past June 2024, the Unitarian Universalist Association held its virtual General Assembly, during which the ratification of a new Article II was held. Six delegates from our Fellowship who attended the GA will gather for a Round Table of GA Joys and Concerns, sharing their varied experiences and fielding questions from the Fellowship congregation. … Continue reading General Assembly
In-between times—such as when we’re between jobs, relationships, life stages, or ministers— often provoke discomfort and anxiety. This Sunday, we’ll look at some of the reasons that being between is uncomfortable, and experiment with ways to soothe and nourish ourselves when we’re between. Led by Mary Stackpole and Gloria Pearlstein, Service Associates. Zoom Service Recording
BVUUF welcomes a delegation of elders and youth from the Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho tribe, who lived in Colorado for centuries before European colonist-settlers stole their land. This is the first time since 1864, when they were massacred at Sand Creek and then removed to Oklahoma, that a delegation from their Nation has been welcomed to their … Continue reading The Ground of Relationship
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
We live in a culture that tends to recognize just two genders, male and female, sometimes called a “gender binary.” Yet, non-binary identities have been recognized for millennia by cultures and societies around the world. While our culture is starting to deconstruct the gender binary, our linguistic structure reinforces the very division and discrimination that … Continue reading The Grammar of Inclusion
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
In the Japanese art of Kintsugi, broken pottery is mended with gold. Rather than seeing brokenness as the end of an object’s usefulness, it highlights a critical moment in that object’s history. Like pottery mended with gold, our moments of breaking are not the end but the beginning of a new life of purpose, and … Continue reading Strong in the Broken Places
Join us as we celebrate the many masculinities and sexualities that make our world a beautiful place. We’ll have a special performance by a local junior drag queen, Vinessa Shimmer. Zoom Service Recording
This service will celebrate Pride Sunday and Father’s Day. We will explore the delight–and complexity–of being our authentic selves in a culture where many value conformity and reject difference.
Improv as Spiritual Practice. If there’s one thing these past few years have taught us, it’s that life throws us curve balls. Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has defined this era as one with a ‘liquid culture’ — a time of constant mobility and change that is requiring all aspects of our life to be more agile. … Continue reading Improvisation as Spiritual Practice
