On Sunday August 3rd, there will be a special service that focuses on our New Home. Sue Davis, SD Atelier architect, will present the most current information about our new home. Members of the Task Force will take part in the service and be available for questions after service coffee chat. We hope you will … Continue reading An Audacious Bouquet: Congregational Service with Our New Home Task Force
This morning we collaboratively create a representation of the challenging realities and possibilities for Climate Justice, as we see it, grounded in a vision of a flourishing future. We then come up with a clear set of potential actions that we can take to realize this vision.
Especially in challenging or difficult situations, our responses to the need we normally have in less troubled circumstances for a measure of kindness can be shunted aside. Today we take a closer look at what role kindness can and does play in our lives. Six-year congregation member John Fisher is a retired Episcopal priest and … Continue reading A Meditation on Kindness
We explore beginnings, famous and not-so-famous first sentences and paragraphs, as a way of beginning to explore story and story-telling as a spiritual practice. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. –from “Elegy in Joy” by Muriel … Continue reading Beginning a Story
Transformation is our religious exploration theme for March. We adapt to the changing world. We covenant to collectively transform and grow spiritually and ethically. Openness to change is fundamental to our Unitarian and Universalist heritages, never complete and never perfect. Sermon audio Sermon Making Ready for Transformation Rev. Joe Cleveland March 3, 2024 The … Continue reading Making Ready for Transformation
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