Generosity is one of the values identified as fundamental to Unitarian Universalism in the new statement of values and commitments Unitarian Universalists are trying out. As this statement describes what generosity means to a Unitarian Universalist faith or theology, generosity is linked with gratitude and with a realization of mutuality or interconnectedness. Perhaps most profoundly, … Continue reading Generosity and Hope
Music helps us to acknowledge what we feel and lifts our spirits. Music helps us rest, and music helps us keep moving. Today we give thanks for music.
Appreciating the wisdom of traditions like Día de Muertos and All Souls Day and Samhain, today is our annual service of remembrance and honor and gratitude for our beloveds who have died.
Tomorrow is the Hindu holiday of Ayudha Puja. It is a day for expressing gratitude, and even reverence, for the tools that help us to live our lives. We honor the wisdom in this tradition by considering the tools and the technology that are woven into and ubiquitous in the way we live today. How … Continue reading Machined Soul
It is important for us to recognize and honor our heritage. However, sometimes we can wish our heritage was a little different than it was. We can wish that at certain moments our ancestors had made different decisions than they did. We can often wish this of ourselves. To live with a sense of wholeness, … Continue reading What If Heritage
It is a truism these days to say we live in times of significant change—but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true! In many ways, we’re entering a new world culturally and nationally, and also locally and as a congregation. How can we best appreciate the real impact of the feeling that we’re always encountering something … Continue reading Brave New World
Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Much in our cultures and society tries to teach us to look at our world through the lens of scarcity. A liberal religious impulse is to teach abundance. What if we just have enough? Might a spiritual practice of leaning into enough or sufficiency lead us to an experience of … Continue reading Making More of Enough
Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Today we explore welcoming as a spiritual practice by contemplating the intentional and unconscious barriers that limit our practice of welcoming, and what sources of inspiration we might discover when we are able to tear some of those barriers down.
Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Our “Summer of Song” series concludes by acknowledging the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and exploring the spiritual practice of imagination through the teachings of “Imagine,” by John Lennon.
Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Today we explore the complexities of what Unitarian Universalists believe with the help of “(Ours Is a) Simple Faith” by David Tamulevich.