Winter Solstice Celebration
Watch this space for details about this annual Saturday evening gathering of music and readings celebrating the season.
Speaker: Rev. Karen Armina
Blue Holiday Service
Please check back later for information about this special Wednesday evening service with Rev. Karen.
Waiting Together: Faith Traditions and Darkness
This service is at Prairie Society at 10:00 am (2010 Whenona Dr.), and will be followed by a potluck meal – please bring a dish to share. Across December’s darkness, communities worldwide practice sacred waiting. Christians prepare for Christmas, Jews kindle Hanukkah lights, and Pagans follow the turning of the Wheel of the Year toward … Continue reading Waiting Together: Faith Traditions and Darkness
Letting Go and Falling Apart
We got to see a brilliant show of color and light earlier this month, and now the days grow even shorter and most of the leaves have let go, and are lying on the ground, brown and crunchy. This reminds us that cycles of change are continual, and change can be ungrounding. This morning, we’ll … Continue reading Letting Go and Falling Apart
Growing Gratitude with the Three Sisters
As our theme for the month implies, gratitude doesn’t just arise on its own. It’s a practice that we grow, and one of the ways we grow it is through reciprocity – the idea that giving and receiving is an exchange. This morning, we’ll explore gratitude as a relational practice of reciprocity. [Image from: commons.wikimedia.org] … Continue reading Growing Gratitude with the Three Sisters
Living in the 200-Year Present
An ancestor service No matter our relationship with our blood family/ancestors, each of us carries their hopes and actions in some way. This morning, as we begin a theme of “nurturing gratitude,” we’ll explore finding appreciation in our lineage, and what our descendants might appreciate about us as their ancestors. And we’ll honor our ancestors … Continue reading Living in the 200-Year Present
Revival!
Revival is, at least in part, about renewal – and compassion can contribute to the re-energizing spirit. So let’s celebrate all the ways we find renewal in our beloved congregation – and all the ways we contribute to the renewal of others! We’ll invite your stories of renewal, and there will be lots of … Continue reading Revival!
Staying Tender
There are so many things happening in our world, and we want to do things about all of them – but of course, we can only do so much. This morning, we’ll explore how we might practice both compassion and healthy boundaries. [Image from https://openclipart.org/] Worship Associate: Kirsten Johnson, Special Music: Rachel Avery and Stephen … Continue reading Staying Tender
Cultivating Compassion
Many religious traditions include compassion as one of their foundational tenets, and the word appears several times in our Unitarian Universalist statement of shared values. This morning, we’ll explore ways we might cultivate compassion individually and collectively, and what it might call us to do. [Image from Soul Matters] Worship Associate: Liz Chapa, Special Music: … Continue reading Cultivating Compassion
Wider Circles
We’ve spent time this month exploring some of the tangible ways we build circles of belonging. This morning, inspired by Rising Appalachia singing “We are moving in wider circles / We are opening our circle” (listen to this wonderful song here), we’ll explore what it might look and feel like to build wider circles, using … Continue reading Wider Circles