On September 14, we celebrate our annual “water communion” service, celebrating how, when we join together our hopes and cares, something beautiful emerges. All are invited to bring a small vial of waters to contribute to the ritual. click here to attend via zoom Congregation OOS 09-14-2025 Since we are temporarily having services at Caffe … Continue reading Water Communion A Celebration of Confluence
This morning we celebrate our annual Flower Communion and honor its creator, Norbert Čapek, a Prague Unitarian minister killed in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942. We also explore the relationship between the polarities of life – creation and destruction, freedom and oppression, and beauty and ugliness – and affirm that creation, freedom and beauty are … Continue reading More Than a Beautiful Bouquet: A Flower Communion Celebration
Rev. Chulak offers a reflection on the meaning of freedom within the Unitarian Universalist tradition. His message explores freedom in its many expressions—freedom of belief, freedom in congregational polity, freedom rooted in love, truth, democracy, justice, and freedom from fear. Freedom is not only a core value of Unitarian Universalism; it is a defining feature … Continue reading Our Unique Way with Freedom