Today, we gather after worship for the Fellowship’s Mid-Year Meeting, with a State of Our Ministries update and an opportunity for the congregation to reflect on the direction in which we our moving as a religious community. It’s a good time to reflect on some central questions about our shared paths: How have you transformed … Continue reading Setting Intentions for our Future
UUFM is a community of compassion and companionship, and compassion and companionship are both forms of giving that sustain both the giver and the receiver. As we begin our 2022-2023 pledge drive to raise the funds needed to sustain the ministries of this Fellowship, we explore theologies of giving and receiving. Greeters and Worship … Continue reading Intentional Gratitude
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, a Unitarian and member of the congregation in Buffalo, NY, and he is buried there in the Forest Lawn Cemetery. Fillmore’s legacy reminds us that our intentions as Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists can be hard to achieve when companions with privilege and power. Greeters … Continue reading Unitarian Intentions and Presidential Contradictions
“In the winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees.”—Mary Oliver. Today’s is a service created by the Rev. María McCabe of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harford County (MD). Rev. María offers the service as a gift to ministers and worship teams weary at this time of year. Log in … Continue reading In The Stillness of Winter
Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for the Christmas Eve Service is below: UUFM Christmas Eve Service is at 7:00 PM Our Zoom Worship Meeting opens at 6:40 PM with informational slides and worship beginning at 10:30. Join Zoom Video Meeting by clicking https://zoom.us/j/99358411229 ;or by opening your … Continue reading Christmas Eve Service 12.24.2021
Our bodies are incredible instruments, especially when we learn to tune them and tune into them through alignment with our environment. Good News! The Sanctuary on Charles Ave will be open for Worship this Sunday, December 12! Greeters and Worship Associates and Hearing Assist and the Tech Squad—we will all be ready for your … Continue reading Embodied Joy
Join Rev. Rita in exploring the unlikely places you might discover joy and how to dig around for it. Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship 10:30 am Followed by Virtual Coffee Hour Our Zoom Worship … Continue reading Joy in Layers
Bread Communion is a long-time practice of this Fellowship, part of its identity as well as a joyful celebration of community. How do we hold such traditions in a changed reality and as a multiplatform congregation? Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for Sunday Worship … Continue reading Bread Communion: Tradition and Change
Join Rev. Rita as she returns to the subject of the “Dakota War,” seeking to deepen her understanding, and perhaps yours, of the meaning of those events, both 150 years ago and today. She will also introduce our new Land Acknowledgment. Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The … Continue reading What Might It Mean to Hold the History of the “Dakota War”? And Why Should We?
Join Rev. Rita as she explores the promise of democracy, as the ideal of this noble experiment meets the cultural and historical realities of American people past and present. Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship … Continue reading Democracy: What It Has Been, And What It Might Be
