Rev. Patricia Hart & Rowan Van Ness On this Sunday, marking the end of Rowan Van Ness’ ministerial internship year, both Rowan and Rev. Tricia will reflect on what it means when a congregation takes on the important work of helping a ministerial candidate learn about that role in our UU tradition. People training for … Continue reading “On Being a Teaching Congregation”
Rev. Patricia Hart with Melinda Lee The power and energy of congregational life comes from the reality that we make it happen together: adults of all ages, children and youth, babies and elders and everybody in between. Kind of like a neighborhood, but more intentional. We have so much to learn from loving one another! Join us … Continue reading “From Generation to Generation”
Rev. Patricia Hart with Brenda Balon The news and troubles of the world are very much with us these days. It can be restful – even essential – to take a step back from it all. Spending time in nature is one good way to do that. Stories from a week on Star Island, and … Continue reading “Faith Among the Trees”
Rowan Van Ness with Geoff Duke A classic expression of Unitarian Universalism is to devote a worship service to the practice of asking questions. Join ministerial intern Rowan Van Ness to ask one of your questions. You can bring a question with you to the service or submit one in advance, particularly if you plan … Continue reading “Question Box” Service
Rowan Van Ness with Melinda Lee In Unitarian Universalism, we often embrace the questions. What does our theology have to do with this? If you would like to attend the service in person, please register at rsvp.church/r/eJ7rm65u. And if you’d rather attend online – please do! Just find the livestream link here, or visit our YouTube … Continue reading “Our Theology of Questioning”
Rowan Van Ness with Judy Brook Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists have been responding to social issues throughout the existence of these traditions. In the 1840s, Unitarians and friends came together to start a utopian community in Florence (a village of Northampton), Massachusetts, putting their abolitionist visions into action by manufacturing silk fabrics as an … Continue reading “What Can History Teach Us?”
During this week’s First UU Society July Break (July 1-8), there will be no Sunday worship service on July 3. We hope you will take this time to explore Unitarian Universalism by taking a virtual “tour” of online services from UU congregations around the country (find congregations at uua.org/find), or enjoy a FUUSB service or … Continue reading FUUSB July Break
Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. This powerful, communal worship experience will be live-streamed at this link from Portland, Oregon on Sunday, June 26 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. The Office of the UUA President, the Rev. Susan Frederick Gray, is pleased to announce that the Rev. Gretchen Haley, Senior … Continue reading UUA General Assembly Sunday Worship – 12:30 Livestream
Rev. Patricia Hart, with Geoff Duke What exactly happened on June 19, 1865? It was 156 years later (2021) when “Juneteenth” was declared a federal holiday. What happened between those two events? There are many lessons to learn from our country’s tangled history since the Civil War ended. How can we put them to good use, now? The service … Continue reading “Juneteenth”
Rev. Patricia Hart & Joe Solomon, with Rowan Van Ness Joe Solomon has been an activist for quite a while… in Vermont, working against climate change; in West Virginia, protesting “mountaintop removal” strip mining, advocating for refugees, for the unhoused, and especially for people living with addiction. Many of us long to change the world; Joe … Continue reading “Doing Right Things (Anyway)”
