“Today I want to greet joy/Without a trace of suspicion.” Amy Loyd On Sunday, March 10, join us for our worship service in the sanctuary. Children begin downstairs for a Full-Hour Children’s Chapel and journey quest. Through covenants, we are the active creators of our faith. But what is a covenant, especially in a Unitarian Universalist … Continue reading Together, We Covenant . . .
“Exile calls us to soften our hard defenses, to acknowledge that we don’t have all the answers, to seek the resources available in our new communities and reach out to strangers for support.”—Christine Valters Paintner Since the emergence of our ancestors in some part of Africa perhaps as long ago as 300,000 years, we as … Continue reading Migration Stories
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float”—Alan Watts When we know we have made mistakes, when we know that we have misjudged, when we know we misunderstand even … Continue reading Trusting Ourselves
The late, great Muhammad Ali claimed “Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” These words might well be the mantra of this Fellowship. What else might we accomplish together if we stop thinking that it is “impossible”? “The … Continue reading Is That Really Possible?
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka John Paul, wrote “Whoever believes in the good in people, draws forth the good in people.” Perhaps this is exactly the attitude we ought to assume as we lament the injustice that persists despite all our work and best intentions. How might we draw good from each other and ourselves? … Continue reading When Will Change Come?
The advent of the new year brings with it the dreaded “New Year Resolution.” And making a new year resolution so often brings us into a place of lack and fault-finding. How about this year, instead, we take a leap and open ourselves up to epiphany, to the possibility that our lives might unfold in … Continue reading New Possibilities
Despite pain and anguish, despite injustice and turmoil, love grows and thrives in a harmful and hurting world. Commemorating the birth of Jesus in the quiet dark of night reminds us of an abiding mystery—that love grows and even thrives in a harmful and hurting world. Join us for an evening service of reflection and … Continue reading The Wonder of Christmas
The great Unitarian religious educator Rev. Sophia Lyon Fahs wrote “Each night a child is born is a holy night,” and she meant, too, that each and every child is a holy being. Join us this Sunday as our Children’s Faith Development Team organizes a no-rehearsal pageant and hymn sing, with our blessed children bringing … Continue reading All-Generation No-Rehearsal Christmas Pageant
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner claims that “A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.” Undoubtedly, we are all mystics, we have all had that feeling of connection and wholeness. How is it that can we know without having the … Continue reading Living into Mystery
THIS SERVICE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER Many wonder (perhaps you do) how Unitarian Universalists can pray or worship if they question the existence of (or downright don’t believe in) God. Rev. Rita offers some perspective on such questions of religious practice and faith, and provides the answers she herself relies on (at … Continue reading Here’s a Mystery for You
