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During our annual Flower Communion service, we are reminded once more of the life-sustaining role that sharing and a generous heart play as we journey with each other through the roller-coaster that is life. Please bring a flower if you can though we’ll have plenty of extras. Our 12th grade youth will bridge and we … Continue reading From This We Live
Life without a sense of wonder is like music without sound or rhythm. Opening ourselves to the awe of what is known and unknown is central to us as spiritual beings, to the experience of the divine, to glimpsing that which transcends the confines of who we think ourselves to be as mortals bounded by … Continue reading Putting On Your Wonderwear
What if we thought of the Earth as a storyteller? What would she tell us? How can we prepare to listen? What lessons might we learn – as we strive to create healthy relationships with each other and with the earth? Which Earth-told stories have been important to you? Let Michael know. Today we also … Continue reading Listen to Your Mother (Earth)
Throughout human history, we have variously celebrated, feared and embraced the multiple, and often paradoxical, traits that characterize the one earth we all share as our home. The earth gives life and it takes life. The earth nourishes and withholds. The earth is beautiful and violent, peaceful and uncaring, fragile and resilient. And whether we … Continue reading Creator, Destroyer, Sustainer
It can be so easy to get stuck stereotyping those who hold different beliefs or values. When doing so we deny ourselves the opportunity to learn from one another, to meet each other in empathy and compassion, and to find commonalities that would allow us to work toward shared goals. Today’s service will be a … Continue reading A UU – Christian Dialogue
Many of us are initially drawn to meditation practice as a way of finding peace in the turmoil of our own lives and the world we live in. This is understandable, good and necessary. And yet on our cushions, we find that the full range of human experience is present. We find not only peace … Continue reading The Practice of Leaving Nothing Out
Some of us identify as Christian, some don’t. Regardless, Jesus has something to offer to all of us. The stories he told and the stories that are told about him are powerful because they speak to longings and hopes, to struggles and paradoxes we all recognize no matter our context. Come and listen to Christian … Continue reading Claiming Jesus
Institutionally, Unitarian Universalism emerged directly out of the trinitarian, staunchly Calvinist churches founded by the Pilgrims and Puritans. By the early 1800s, the more orthodox churches refused to exchange pulpits with the more liberal ministers, accusing them of the heresy of unitarianism. In 1819, William Ellery Channing responded to the accusation by publicly embracing the … Continue reading Our Christian Womb
This weekend, ministers, rabbis, priests, and pastors around the state of New Hampshire are preaching about the impact of the Death Penalty on our lives. UUs have officially opposed capital punishment since 1961 and have repeatedly reaffirmed the need to find alternatives. It it time to close the book on this chapter of our state’s … Continue reading Death Penalty Obituary
It can be tempting to keep going and going and going, until past the point when exhaustion and collapse become inevitable, when beauty and kindness can no longer be perceived, when compassion and generosity are out of reach, when a painful recovery is forced upon us. When and how we hit that wall varies from … Continue reading Plugging in to Sanctuary
