This is a special Wednesday evening service. The winter holidays are usually framed around peace and joy and hope, and if you’re not feeling those themes right now, you’re not alone. You’re invited to this evening service, where we’ll share and ritualize the losses, fears, regrets, and sorrows we’re feeling this holiday season, in the … Continue reading Blue Holiday Service
11/29/25 Update: Due to the snowstorm, this joint service with Prairie UU will be virtual only. 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 and through the Winter Solstice—each tradition honoring hope amid the year’s … Continue reading Waiting Together: Faith Traditions and Darkness
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
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
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 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!
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
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
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
More and more people describe themselves as lonely these days, and our awareness of the impacts of loneliness is growing. This morning, we’ll explore some of the effects and some of the antidotes to loneliness. [Image from Soul Matters] Worship Associate: Marti Everett Share the Plate – click here to donate Click here for this … Continue reading Alone Together?
