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.”
Autumn is a season of transition and letting go. We look outside and see the leaves changing colors and falling. The interfaith calendar for this period contains two holidays that contemplate the relationship between light and darkness–Diwali, which takes place this coming week, and Samhain, at the end of the month. What is it about the … Continued
Please join us for a reflection on “Salvation” as we consider who is being “saved”, from what, and by whom.
