Inner Depth/Outer Focus. Today, we kick off our summer series on “Spiritual Exploration and Justice-making” by exploring how these two facets of our congregational vision inform each other. Zoom Service Recording
Fatherhood Expanded. In a non-binary world, the assigned ‘male’ gender at birth is no longer a pre-requisite for fatherhood. Today we celebrate the blessings of all kinds of ways to be a father, and all the people who have played fatherly roles in our lives. Zoom Service Recording
Bring flowers to share for this annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. Zoom Service Recording
There is now a mental health crisis among our youth, which by necessity impacts whole families. Today, we explore the learning, beauty and challenges parents experience with the ever-increasing prominence of struggling young people. We will also welcome New Members . Zoom Service Recording
During this very special service we will honor all the transitions our youth are experiencing. Credo statements will be shared by our Coming of Age participants and we will honor both our youth transitioning out of and into our high school youth community through the traditional UU ritual of “Bridging.” Come celebrate with us as … Continue reading Youth Service: Coming of Age and Bridging
Beautify! as a Spiritual Practice. The choice to bring beauty into the world is a choice to love the world. We begin this month’s Soul Matters Theme of “Nurturing Beauty” exploring the link between spirituality, creativity and beauty. Following the service, all ages are invited to join David Beumee in creating “pinch pots” he’ll fire … Continue reading Beautify! as a spiritual practice
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
Many people grew up with a story of Easter that included a bodily resurrection and personal rebirth through Jesus as a messiah. But what if the message of Jesus was even more radical than that? What if he came to shift our whole relationship to this EARTHLY life? This Easter, we’ll explore Easter as an … Continue reading Easter: Telling A New Story
For 99.9% of human existence, people experienced the world as fully animate — every rock, flower, body of water, inch of soil was embodied with spirit. Nymphs, fairies and angels were an ordinary part of people’s life experience. This service will explore the impact on the world of losing our sense of the animate throughout … Continue reading Animism as Normative Consciousness
“Why is there something instead of nothing? Take 3!! Rev. Lydia will address this excellent “Tell the Minister What to Preach” auction question, posed to her by Jeff VanCleve last year, and rescheduled due to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, and then again after the Marshall Fire. Finally, we’ll get to imagine together the origins … Continue reading Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
