The Path to Collective Peace
With Speaker Sam Williams Mr Williams has a story of hardships and challenges. He shares his personal journey of transcending the odds and overcoming social despair and prison incarceration as a youth. As a mindfulness and body-based teacher, he uses social healing...
Belonging, Neurodiversity, & Congregational Life
Speaking inclusion in our spiritual path, we can be challenged as to how to live this out in congregational life. No easy answers, but strength in the conversation. No simple programmatic decisions, but compassion can lead the way. For what do you come to church? And...
The Path to Collective Peace
With Guest Speaker Sam Williams Mr. Williams has a story of hardships and challenges. He shares his personal journey of transcending the odds and overcoming social despair and prison incarceration as a youth. As a mindfulness and body-based teacher, he uses social...
More of That Please
What enables a positive stance of life? What encourages human beings to thrive? And, while facing the truth of this culture, this world, and this time in history, where shall we plant our feet and live in positive, encouraging, honest, helpful, and transforming...
Our Soul’s Address: The Body
Barbara Brown Taylor wrote “…there comes a time when it is vastly important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address....
Easter Sunday: Repentance and Repair
The resurrection we know for sure. Oh, to be born again, and again, and again in one lifetime. (Inspired by Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg, which is the UU ‘Common Read’ for 2024).
Room at the Table with Guest Speaker Li Kynvi
In some parts of the country, politicians seem to be asking “How do we make transgender people more invisible with fewer human rights?” This morning we’re asking, instead, “How can we grow to extend an ever-deeper welcome to trans and non-binary people? How do we open...
What the World Needs Now: The Interfaith Coalition Singers’ Comfort, Hope, & Peace
One Spirit, a local interfaith choir, will lead us into experiencing and considering our basic unity as human beings…as living beings. Songs, stories, and images will lift our vision toward the awareness necessary for a more peaceful world. Many religions. Many...
The Laughter of the Sufis: The Ego as Friend or Foe?
Drawing on the mystical branch of Islam, we will consider the ego and the help and hindrance it can be in our development as human beings. What’s so funny about all of our struggles anyway? This is personal…and cultural…and political.
Packing a Spiritual Backpack for Hard Times
Join guest speaker Rev. Jo Murphy.
Throughout the years many articles have discussed what to put in your emergency bag. As climate change ramps up, I have seen more articles about preparing a bag for the end of the world. As UU’s, what do we put in our spiritual backpack for hard times? What tools does our faith provide us with to couple with our emergency knives and fire starters? Today we will explore what we already have and what we should gather for our spiritual emergency bag.