What does it mean to be a people of healing? Our November theme invites us to reflect on how we might find and engage in healing within and between us. Check-in question: What is something you know now about healing that you didn’t know earlier in your life?
In these darkening days, many of us need something to look forward to, along with a gentle way to hold our pains and our hopes for healing. On this first Sunday of Advent, we’ll explore the ancient roots of this season, from our Christian and Jewish heritage to our pagan ancestors who counted down the … Continue reading Looking for Light: Celebrating Advent
We all carry losses, some recent, some old but still aching. This morning, we will hear reflections from several members of our Beloved Community—Erik Gunn, Kirsten Johnson, Maeve Bonack, and Tom McClintock—on their paths to healing from all kinds of hurts. Click to join us online via Zoom Share the Plate – click to donate
Pauli Murray was a lawyer, poet, activist, and priest whose ideas helped shape both the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Murray also carried a lifelong, largely private struggle with gender, seeking understanding and care in a world that had no language or welcome for who Murray was. Their story holds deep pain, and remarkable … Continue reading A Song in a Weary Throat
Most of us hold on to more than we need: the drawer we can’t close, the boxes in the garage, the things we keep “just in case.” Sometimes our stuff tells a deeper story. For many people, holding on is a way of feeling safe, a response to seasons of loss, scarcity, or hurt. There … Continue reading What We Carry: Healing for the Holidays of Light
Humans, regardless of beliefs, have honored death as a way to nurture our human condition. Many of us speak of the veil being thin this time of year. It is a way of describing how the year turns and we the living remember our beloved who died. Sometimes Unitarian Universalists forget that the root of … Continue reading All Souls: Thinning the Veil
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting Here’s the question, if light is coming towards us, is it a good thing or a bad thing? Would it be the light of better days, or of an angry mob of polo shirt wearing white supremacists? The open-endedness of the pandemic as well as the … Continue reading The Light at the End of 2020
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting How do we function when everything around us is always moving and changing? This morning, we’ll explore some of the resources for resilience and healing offered by the prophetic voice of Octavia Butler, especially in her book Parable of the Sower. We’ll also mark the Transgender … Continue reading The Only Lasting Truth is Change
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting What is it that the members of our congregation’s Board of Trustees actually do and why do they do it? Board Members Isaac Gadient, Marla McFadden, and Kirsten Johnson will share personal reflections about their roles as Trustees and how service on our board has … Continue reading Why Would Anyone Join The Board of Trustees?
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting No matter which way the election goes, we will need healing and courage to keep moving through the days and months ahead. This service will be built from readings, music, and short reflections that will offer some resources. We will also be welcoming new members … Continue reading In the Name of Love, Joining Sunday
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting People of many cultures and faith traditions are moved to honor the ancestors during this season. This morning we’ll take time to remember our own ancestors, to explore their roles in the creation of our nation and our democracy, and to consider what they may … Continue reading The Call of the Ancestors
