“‘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
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?
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
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
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.”
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.
Keep an eye out for details of a congregation- wide community service project this morning as our form of “worship.”
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.
Music. Maybe we’ll talk about it, maybe we’ll just sing. Come and see. Come and sing.
The publication of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird prequel, Go Set A Watchman, unleashed a torrent of opinion pieces, critiques, applause, and befuddlement about the recasting of Atticus Finch from paragon of white virtue to an emblem of deep south racism. Mary Louise goes home as an adult and sees a different shade of Atticus than she had seen through the adoring eyes of Scout. In this sermon, we’ll explore the disturbing, empowering, and liberating ways our lives, our world, and the people in it, become more real when we are willing to “declare what we see” through unblinking adult eyes (even with the thickening vapor of half-truths and fake news). How do we reconcile the beautiful with the ugly, the vile with the just, the illusion of a leader with the reality, the fondness we have for friends and family when it is sullied by expressions of prejudice? And what will we do with the truths we see? “When I was a child, I reasoned like a child…but when I grew up, I put away childish things.”
