In this, the last service of the regular congregational year and the last for three members of our senior staff, Rev. Susan, Rev. Andrée, and Andrea will each have some reflective words of farewell for the congregation. The title of the service comes from Universalist Hosea Ballou’s counsel about what keeps people of good will … Continue reading “Let Love Continue”
Thresholds, or doorways, it is said, are the safest places to be during certain kinds of storms. What about in congregational life? On this next to last Sunday for the interim period, it’s time to reflect on the particular threshold this congregation has been on during a time of change. What future might you be … Continue reading “Thresholds”
Join us this Sunday for a multigenerational service led by our Youth! The service will be followed by the annual meeting and picnic. Children are especially welcome to remain in the Sanctuary for this multigenerational service, but supervised childcare will be available in the Memorial Garden. Outdoor childcare will continue, for children of all ages, … Continue reading YUUth Sunday
Join us for our annual Memorial Day weekend service of remembrance. We will create a communal space to recognize those we have lost. There will be time in the service to light a candle and share the name of someone you wish to remember. There will be no special programming for children or childcare … Continue reading Service of Remembrance
In June, 1919, nearly one hundred years ago, the United States Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote in this country. What better time to honor the deeper struggle for agency and, yes, for a better life for everyone’s children that we could associate with this day? Do … Continue reading “After Her Own Time”
With this congregation having as a goal for next year becoming more welcoming, including of people with particular identities, what is the overarching spiritual umbrella of welcoming like? When have others made us feel welcome, and how do we internally navigate toward being able to extend that in turn? Reflections on “listening with the ear … Continue reading “Listening with the Ear of the Heart”
What does it mean to be a brother, sister, step-sibling, half-sibling or adopted sibling? What are the spiritual, ethical, familial, and (sometimes) economic obligations this role can impose upon us as UUs? For better or worse, our lives are intertwined (sometimes invisibly) with those of our siblings. Our guest preacher, Rev. Jennifer Pader, M.Div., STM, … Continue reading “Mom Always Liked You Best”
All of us carry hurts and wounds with us. Sometimes, in spite of the challenge, we grow stronger or deeper in the wake of them. That’s very different from saying they are for the best, but, rather, more like insisting we can be strong and still whole in spite of them. Our service will include … Continue reading “Letting the Light In”
Author Thomas King writes: “The truth about stories is that’s all we are.” Yet, not all of us have the power to tell our own stories. If we are to honor each other and our interdependence, if we are to allow for a responsible search for truth and meaning, we need to create space for … Continue reading “Narrative Freedom”
Have you ever had a mystical experience in your journey on this earth? Madeleine L’Engle says that “There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred.” Human beings have a need for the deep down moments that help bring meaning to the cycles of life. Reflections on where, and when, we experience the sacred. … Continue reading “The Deep Down Moments”
