Many different cultures throughout the world celebrate the Summer Solstice, the day of longest light and highest sun, with gathering and music. Join us for a service celebrating the gifts of the sun, and summer! We will have live music today from Heike Saynisch and Marla McFadden. <No recording for this service> Share the Plate … Continue reading Celebrating the Sun (Summer Solstice)
How can we celebrate blessings when there is so much hurt in the world? One wisdom teaching, Rumi’s poem “The Guest House,” advises us to “welcome and entertain them all!” This morning, we’ll explore how we might celebrate the full complexity of life. Share the Plate Order of Service Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever … Continue reading The Guest House
This congregation was founded with the understanding that the people are the church, and every year in June we celebrate the community we create together. This morning, we’ll make a communal bouquet with the flowers you bring, and take them home as reminders of the blessing we are to each other. If you plan on … Continue reading Blessed by Each Other – Flower Communion
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting or Please RSVP here to join us in person (recommended) – opens on Wednesday Beauty is a subjective thing, and the dominant culture’s definitions have and continue to cause harm to women, adolescents, people of color, transgender and gender non-conforming people, and many others. This morning, … Continue reading Nurturing Beauty
How might we redefine beauty in a way that makes room for all the parts in us that we have deemed unloveable? What if instead of beauty being about perfection, we embraced it as unruly? Rev. Wendy Williams will be joining us virtually this week. She has served as Jefferson Unitarian Church’s Senior Minister since … Continue reading Unruly Beauty
It’s been a hard couple of years, characterized by pandemic, confusion, division, war, and deteriorating democracy. It’s easy to succumb to fear and ugliness. And. Our values and principles guide us toward love, hope, peace, and freedom. This morning, we’ll explore the role of our congregation in supporting, rejuvenating, and inspiring each other as we … Continue reading Beautiful Together
Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting or click here to RSVP for in-person attendance (recommended) – opens on Friday at 4:30 pm. We’re all, at some time in our lives, the children of someone – and many of us grow up to “mother” or parent someone, biologically or not. This morning, we’ll … Continue reading Beautiful and Sacred: the Life Cycle of the Human
At Beltane, or May Day, earth energies are said to be at their strongest, making it a brilliant moment in the Wheel of the Year to bring ideas, hopes, and dreams into action. It’s the time to celebrate sexuality and sensuality, passion, vitality, joy, and conception – of all kinds! This morning, we’ll celebrate the … Continue reading Beltane Beauty
Congregation members Janet Rex, Rand Hill, Virginia Scholtz, Deb Myrbo and Susan Podebradsky will show us how poetry and other arts help them awaken to themselves and to the wider world. When we come to know ourselves more clearly and share our truth with others we offer a beacon, inviting them to also show up … Continue reading Awakening to Ourselves
Today is Easter for our Christian siblings, when they celebrate the rising of Jesus from the tomb he had been laid after being crucified. And it is the Sunday before Earth Day, the day we focus on greening our future. This morning, we’ll explore the possibility of awakening to a world in which Love rises. … Continue reading Rising Green
