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Online Only On this Easter Sunday we will look at the Easter story as a doorway into appreciating the value of the ordinary as lovable, as healthy, as real, as enough. Salvation is not necessarily a function of extraordinary events but the alignment of who we are with how we live and what life is … Continue reading Becoming Ordinary
We often think of meditation practice as something that we undertake alone, but from the beginning meditation has been deeply embedded in the community. Our commitment to contemplative practice is also a commitment to the wellbeing of community and all the beings within that community and beyond. The service will have a more contemplative format … Continue reading Alone Together: Solitude & Community
Our commitments determine how we spend our time, talent, and treasure. A commitment is not a contract. A commitment changes who we are, it embodies our growth, it is about identity, sense of purpose, belonging, and greater freedom (even) as we let go of some of our choices. Our commitments shape who we are as … Continue reading The Commitments that Shape Us
If commitments shape who we are (see next Sunday), how do we balance commitments competing for our attention, colliding and pulling us in multiple worthwhile directions? How do we honor and balance our commitments to self, family, work, our community, the environment, to justice? Finding that balance is hard and has left many of us … Continue reading Colliding Committments
Live Stream Only Our Board of Trustees has been reading and wrestling with the June 2020 report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change titled “Widening the Circle of Concern.” The charge of the commission was to conduct an audit of the power structures and analyze systemic racism and white supremacy culture within the Unitarian … Continue reading Widening the Circle
Live Stream Only What if to “side with love” meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary? This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in … Continue reading Side With Love
Live Stream Only Beloved Community is a way of being, an attitude, an orientation of the heart. It is an aspiration and a practice that shapes our relationships with each other and all living things. What does it require to be a Beloved Community? How do we live into the tension that exists between the … Continue reading Our Beloved Community
Live Stream Only Humanity has imaged the divine in a myriad of ways – as a comforting presence, as a life-giving, creative force, as a connected web of all existence, as a mental construct projecting and reflecting our human struggles and aspirations. And much more. How do YOU imagine God / Goddess / the Gods? … Continue reading The God of Our Imagination
Live Stream Only Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi observes that experiences are genuinely satisfying when we are in a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, we typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. And it is a state that can be controlled, not just left to chance. How does creativity move … Continue reading When Your Imagination Flows
Live Stream Only Langston Hughes has been called the poet laureate of the African-American experience — a visionary writer of the Harlem Renaissance who gave hopeful expression to the aspirations of the oppressed, even as he decried racism and injustice. His powerful poetry and prose continues to speak to the dream of Martin Luther King, … Continue reading I Dream a World
