How to have it, how to show it, and why we need it even more when the world feels wrong and sad. Join us to celebrate all that we have accomplished as a community this year, as we prepare our hearts for the UUFM Annual Meeting, immediately following worship this morning. Our space is … Continue reading Joy!
As numerous Christian denominations increasingly embrace causes of social justice at the core of our faith tradition, how does Unitarian Universalism remain unique and relevant? What does our religious community have to offer that we can’t get anywhere else in our world? Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. … Continue reading Why Unitarian Universalism Now?
Many of us find respite from our overly wired world by gardening or hiking or otherwise reveling in the beauty of the natural world. How might we move from relationship to interconnection, with nature not as a sight for sore eyes and minds but the very ground of our beingness? Why should we do this, … Continue reading Overcoming the Disconnect
In the Christian tradition, Christ rose this day to pay for the sins of humankind and to reconcile humanity to God. What sins are redeemed; what reconciliation is achieved for Unitarian Universalists, especially in this time riven with violence and hatred? What new day dawns for us, as we close our pledge drive, and imagine … Continue reading What New Day Dawns for Us Today?
This week, we celebrate with an Earth Communion the vernal equinox and our lives as part of nature. Special worship bags will be provided on March 19 and 20. We highlight today the efforts of our Green Sanctuary Team to bring awareness of climate crisis and ecological justice. Our space is virtual, but our … Continue reading When Nature is You
Many of us are used to the idea of “Charitable Giving.” Many of us do it regularly. Is our aim to help the needy, the less fortunate? Or can money be for healing, for mutuality, for a reciprocal relationship of give and take without superiority and inferiority? Let’s see what that might look like. Our … Continue reading Money and Reciprocity
Blurb: The title of this sermon is based on a statement by the Buddhist priest, Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams. She makes the important connection between our individual health and well being and our neighbor’s health, wholeness and well being. This relationship is a foundational block of beloved community. So how do we come to greater spiritual … Continue reading My Liberation Depends on Your Wholeness
How Do You Love An Enemy, When the Enemy is Uncle Festus? Though our national political scene is undergoing changes, the deep ideological divides in our country will not shift so quickly. Some of us experience these national fractures within our own families. What do we do with all of this strife and division, when … Continue reading How Do You Love An Enemy, When the Enemy is Uncle Festus?
More than five years ago, your Fellowship took a leap of faith and aimed for full-time called ministry. Almost three years ago, you called a full-time settled minister, and we began to dream a future together. In faith and dreaming together, what might the UUFM look like? How might it serve its people, those we … Continue reading Imagining 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
