What happens to compassion during a pandemic? On this, as with many other big questions, our assumptions about “the way life is” get thrown into uncertainty. How can we take care of each other when we’re wondering how to care for ourselves? Join us for online worship at uusociety.org/worship-and-music/online-sunday-worship/ at 10 a.m. on Sundays!
What actually happens when one person cares for another person? “Mothering” changes people – no matter who is doing it. Not to mention how it changes the world. Honoring Mother’s Day beyond greeting cards and brunch. Join us for online worship at uusociety.org/worship-and-music/online-sunday-worship/ at 10 a.m. on Sundays!
Paying attention to what makes you feel grateful can be an effective antidote to constant worry and uncertainty…it even helps with anger and frustration (sometimes). Today, gratitude stories from life in congregations, and the remarkable lessons we teach each other. Join us for online worship at uusociety.org/worship-and-music/online-sunday-worship/ at 10 a.m. on Sundays!
This 50th anniversary of Earth Day has arrived in the middle of a global pandemic, as economic, political, and social systems are breaking down under the need to respond. There are opportunities amid this catastrophe to create new systems more focused on human communities than on profits, more with living on Earth than on conquering … Continue reading #GreenRecovery
There are some big ideas emerging in response to the current pandemic that has changed all our lives – thoughts not just about how we might survive this catastrophe, but how the world could be a better place when it’s all over. Is this how transformation happens? What difference might it make to choose to … Continue reading “Choosing Hope”
We may think of Easter as a time of celebration, when the whole world calls out “Hallelujah!” But when you stop and think about the stories in the Bible, there was no celebrating for Jesus or the disciples. Life had fallen apart. It was hard to imagine what might come next…or even what was right … Continue reading Online Worship: “What’s All Around Us”
The pandemic has overturned everything that was normal. Even many things we understood as “good” – like being close to people and not spending too much time alone. Dealing with uncertainty has become one of the most certain things we do every day. And, spring is coming: relentlessly, predictably, certainly. There will be mud, and … Continue reading Online Worship: “Uncertainty. Certainty.”
In these very challenging times, as we’re staying away from our friends and trying to keep up with the news (without driving ourselves into a panic or around the bend) it feels harder and harder to know what’s true. And yet knowing what is most true – in our hearts, as well as our heads … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: “Searching for Truth”
One hundred years ago (and for a long time before that) people didn’t think women could be ministers – even in our liberal Unitarian and Universalist traditions. Nevertheless, some of them persisted… Come hear stories of the radically different understandings of “church” some of these women brought to life, and be inspired by what we … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: “Wise Women”
There was much opposition to the idea that women could be ministers in our tradition, back in the 19th and even the early 20th centuries. Nevertheless, some of them persisted… Hear stories of the radically different understandings of “church” that these women brought to life, and be inspired by what they might teach us today. … Continue reading ONLINE ONLY: “Wise Women”
