Side With Love
LISTEN: Personal reflections on the ‘Side with Love’ movement .
Services
On Coming Home
Coming home is a concept common to many mystic and spiritual traditions. In this service we ask, “What is this home, and how might we get there?”
Advice from a Caterpillar: Sharing Thoughts About Growth and Transformation
“‘Who are YOU?’ said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, ‘I–I hardly know, sir, just at present– at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then’.” These lines from the … Continued
The Four Directions
Gather for a quiet lay-led service in the Parish House, exploring the four directions of the Medicine Wheel in words, music, and sharing. What might the Spirits of the East (illumination), the South (renewal), the West (introspection) and the North (wisdom) offer you in the New Year?
MORNING SERVICE 10:30 AM The Baby With The Bathwater: Celebrating the Humanitarian Jesus
READ HERE On the eve of Christmas, we might grapple with whether we’re entitled to celebrate, admire, and even love the babe in the manger if we’ve chosen along the way to pour off the filmy bathwater of Christian doctrine in which that babe has soaked for two millennia. This morning we ask: Should we, … Continued
EVENING SERVICE AND CONCERT 5:00 PM The Perfect Imperfection of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree
Candlelight service with Carols and Lessons Choral Concert 5:00-5:30 p.m., under the direction of Aimee Reash Homily: “The Perfect Imperfection of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree” For more than 50 years, a “Charlie Brown Christmas” has graced our TV screens. In it, Charlie falls in love with the most despised little tree on the lot. “This … Continued
Wrestling with Faith
This reflection is one response a Unitarian Universalist might give to the statement, “I’m a scientific rationalist atheist, Faith has no place in my life.”
The Power of Partnership
Rev. Renee, Congregational Life Staff for the UUA’s Central East Region, will preach on the power of partnership as we begin to consider how we might pair with another congregation to seek our next minister.
A Service of Service
Keep an eye out for details of a congregation- wide community service project this morning as our form of “worship.”
A Sabbath for the Land: Environmental Justice in Judaism
Dr. Krone, who researches and teaches food and environmental justice, will offer an overview of the environmental values that are foundational to Judaism, including stories from her ongoing research on the Jewish community farming movement in North America.