Rev. Patricia Hart & Rev. David Ruffin with Betsy Ferries This Sunday is Bridging Sunday, and we invite you to please join us for the return of this special annual tradition back to the Meeting House! We will be honoring graduating high school seniors within our community, and ritually celebrating this significant transition in their … Continue reading “Bridging Together”
Rev. Patricia Hart, with Warren Baker On this Mother’s Day, we celebrate the lives and stories of those mothers and others who brought us up, on the way to our own destinies. Hearing other people’s stories is an important way to figure out what matters, and the difference it makes to choose. When we don’t … Continue reading “Creating Our Stories”
Rev. Karen G. Johnston, Ministerial Candidate, with Geoff Duke & Mary Beth McNulty, Worship Associates With the call to grow, seek, care, and act, what does it look like to build what the poet Naomi Shihab Nye calls “the Shared World?” Inspired by the story of a community orchard offered up by another poet, Ross … Continue reading “Building a Shared World Together”
Rev. Karen G. Johnston, Ministerial Candidate, with Brenda Balon & Melinda Lee, Worship Associates Purpose. Alignment. Calling. There are many names to describe what it is to find the sweet spot of where our gifts overlap with the aching needs of the world. What does that look like for each of us? What does that … Continue reading “To Be of Use: Finding Our Purpose”
Join us for a special service led by FUUSB Climate Justice Team members, with Worship Associate Judy Brook, and Guest Preacher Rev. Dr. Nancy Wright, Pastor for Creation Care, The New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and Vice President of VT Interfaith Power & Light. This Sunday’s service will be followed by a … Continue reading Climate Justice Team Service: “Reconnecting with the Earth”
Rev. Patricia Hart, with Geoff Duke There is so much wrong in the world. As people of values and faith and principles, our work is to call out injustice, protest inequity, and refuse to give in to lies or fear. The question is, how? Can resistance also show up as a choice to believe in … Continue reading “What’s the Best Thing That Could Happen?”
Rev. Patricia Hart, with Betsy Ferries and Erika Reif The ancient Christian holiday of Easter offers a powerful message of redemption to many people around the world. To others, the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection is problematic, or at best confusing. If you wonder whether Easter has anything to say to you in your … Continue reading “What Does Easter Mean, to Us?”
Zoe Hart, Nancy Hellen, Sal Millichamp, Martha Molpus, & Peggy Owen Sands, with Warren Baker & Melinda Lee Join the congregation to explore the 25 traits we want to pursue to grow in being a Beloved Community. Following the service there will be an opportunity to continue the discussion of Beloved Community at 11:30 a.m. … Continue reading “25 Traits of Beloved Community”
David Ruffin and the FUUSB Youth Group Join us for our annual “YUUth Sunday” where the FUUSB Youth Group leads the Sunday Service. After spending the night in the Meeting House for their first “Lock-In” since before the pandemic, the Youth will awake, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, to share a brand-new, soon-to-be classic, tale with the … Continue reading “The Meaning of Happiness!”
Rev. Patricia Hart, with Melinda Lee What does the future hold for this First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington? None of us can know for sure… but often the best way to predict what’s coming next is to notice where energy is showing up now. Imagining what a letter looking “back” from 2030 might include. … Continue reading “What Might the Future Be?”
