As a community, we have come through pandemic whole and not unchanged. In this time of Yom Kippur, we wonder how we might find the courage to see our truth and to work to transform and become a community anew. We are joined today by UU Stewardship Consultant Rachel Maxwell, who will share the results … Continue reading The Courage to Ask: What Do We Do Now?
UUFM joins the Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for worship this morning. Building Beloved Community: The Racial Justice Committee of MVUUF takes stock of where we’ve been, where we are right now and how we should move forward in doing anti-racism work that is meaningful. You may view this service in the UUFM Sanctuary at 937 Charles … Continue reading Building Beloved Community
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
Side with Love Sunday from our UUA. Rev. Rita opens worship this day before moving to a recorded service created by ministers and lay leaders across our denomination for an exploration of what love calls us to do in this world Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The … Continue reading Side with Love Sunday
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?
What is Religion For? Some of us long for a community of like-minded people. Some of us consider ourselves “spiritual but not religious.” Some of us seek “the holy,” or don’t. So what is religion, what is a religious community, what is a reason to practice religion, especially if we can be “spiritual” alone? UUFM”s … Continue reading Online Worship Service and Coffee Hour
March 13, 2020 To all the beloved people of UUFM— We find ourselves in uncertain times, when a tiny virus reveals just how interconnected we are with each other and the entire world. Yet the virus is not itself our interdependence; it is not the measure of our connection. The virus is nothing like the … Continue reading Service Canceled – UUFM Closure Due to COVID-19
We all hold within us longings—personal ones, like to be loved or respected or cared for. And communal ones—such as to understand the stories of those with different life experiences, to ameliorate the suffering of homelessness or poverty, to live justly in a world with a changed climate. This week, we will explore how our … Continue reading Be Your Longing
Today we mark the International Day of Peace with acknowledgment of this Fellowship’s commitment to our 6th Principle: “The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. And we also will recognize that our Fellowship occupies land where treaties were broken. This is an All-generation Service, and the Choir, under the direction of … Continue reading International Day of Peace Celebration
The great “Unknown” records that “What you see depends upon what you’re looking for.” Today we will give some consideration to whom and what we expect to see in the Fellowship, and how that expectation provides us with “community.” Rev. Rita preaching. Soul Matters Monthly Theme: What does it mean to be a community of … Continue reading An Expectation of Community
