This will be Rev. Lydia’s last Sunday service with us. In this meaningful ritual, we will release the covenant that has bound her to us these many years. Special music will be offered by the Fellowship choir and gifts will be exchanged. Following the service, cake will be served during coffee hour. Zoom Service Recording
During this week’s service, we’ll use the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to explore the Fellowship’s recent history of Liberating Love in the area of justice-making. Zoom Service Recording
The month of January is named after the Roman God, Janus, the God of transitions and dualites — he has two faces, one facing the past, and one facing the future. As we enter this last month of Rev. Lydia’s ministry with us, we will be exploring our past 16 years together as we step … Continue reading Where have we been? Where are we going?
Inspired by the changing season, we celebrate the relationships that connect us to the earth and to one another. Today’s service is shared as an offering of sustenance and inspiration for the BVUUF community. In this service, we welcome Revs. Lauren Smith and Vail Weller from the UUA’s office of Stewardship and Development. We’ll also … Continue reading Mitten Tree
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.
We humans are a funny species, so many of us are prone to look back at all the ways we wish things had gone, all the things we should have done better. Today, we will look back in delight — at all the wonderful moments of our lives. Zoom Service Recording
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Norbert Capek’s Flower Ceremony, a ritual celebrated in many Unitarian Universalist congregations each spring. Bring a flower to add to our bouquets, as we honor the powerful history that brought this ritual from Transylvania to the United States. We will also be welcoming New Members today as well! … Continue reading Flower Ceremony
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
In this all-ages youth service, we will dedicate our incoming families and children, honor our bridging youth, and celebrate the chaos of parenting on this Mother’s Day. Let’s celebrate that we will make mistakes, but we will not make them alone. Zoom Service Recording
