Click here for the YouTube recording of this service This service will be at McKee Farms Park in Fitchburg at 10:00 am. This is our third year joining together as the three Madison UU congregations. These times call us to reflect on the role of our shared community in response to authoritarianism. This morning, we’ll … Continue reading Resilience & Resistance in Community
Today we’ll explore keeping love at the center of our lives and daily decisions. What would it mean to use love as a guide in our actions and in all of our relationships? Do we appreciate and make time for “non-romantic” love? What might we do differently if we let the “soft animal” of our … Continue reading Love Will Guide Us
Pride is a protest AND a party. This morning’s multigenerational fair style service will offer readings, music, activities, and a dance party, honoring the queer ancestors who have been part of creating freedom for LGBTQ+ people, and celebrating Pride! [Image from wikimedia commons] Note for Zoom Participants: This week’s service will have the choice for … Continue reading Free to Be Me!
Embrace the electrifying spirit of the year’s largest UU gathering (General Assembly), where we come together in unity for an awe-inspiring Sunday worship celebration like no other! It’s a vibrant, communal worship experience that promises to uplift your soul and ignite your passion. The reflection will be offered by the Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk … Continue reading Revolution Begins with a Dream
In this service, we’ll hear from two JRUUC members about their beliefs, and some reflections on Pride and our monthly theme, living love through the practice of freedom. [Free Image from goodfon.com] Worship Associate: Deb Myrbo, Special Music: Lisa Mott Share the Plate – click here to donate Click here for this week’s newsletter Order … Continue reading This I Believe – Freedom Edition
There are two ways (at least!) to frame freedom: “freedom from” restrictions on our actions, and “freedom to” behave in ways we wish to. These can be in tension with each other; promoting “freedom from” for some is sometimes accused of infringing on the “freedom to” rights of others. This morning, we’ll explore the relationship … Continue reading On Freedoms: Yours, Mine, Theirs, and Ours
Where are you from? Where do you belong? Who belongs? Martin Alvarado talks about growing up in two cultures, with family members on both sides of the immigration divide, and experiencing second-hand whiteness while growing up in Mexico City and living as an adult in Madison. Martin Alvarado works as a community engagement librarian at … Continue reading A Life in Two Countries
Unitarian Universalism is a living tradition, which means it changes as we learn and experience new things. And yet, there are threads – constants – that can be traced through our history. This morning, we’ll explore the threads we each bring to this beloved congregation, and the thread of our collective imagination. Our annual congregational … Continue reading The Thread
The Unitarians and Universalists consolidated, and formed the Unitarian Universalist Association, 64 years ago this month. Our founders imagined that these two faith traditions rooted in heresy might complement each other as a new whole was created – and since then, there are ways that we’ve broken and ways that we’ve healed. This morning, we’ll … Continue reading Imagining Ourselves Whole
Today is Star Wars Day – the unofficial celebration of the galaxy that has fired many of our imaginations. And our Pagan siblings just marked Beltane, or May Day – the time to plant the gardens of our future, because we know that the seeds that sprout in the dark will emerge into the light. … Continue reading May the Fourth Be With You
