The Trust that Love Built
Service at 9:15 and 11:00 am Celebrant: Ben Spick On this Sunday soon after Valentine's Day, we celebrate the power of love to build trust. Through story and song, we explore the ways that love can build trust. This is a service for all ages.
Rebuilding Trust
Click Here for Video (You Tube) Service at 9:15 and 11:00 am We've all had invitations to find our way back into trusting others or even ourselves. We've had to work through complexities to find ways to care for ourselves and our boundaries while also being open to the people we love and the inevitable missteps that we and others make. Let us examine what it takes for us to forgive and to rebuild trust.
Trust the Web
Click Here for Video (You Tube) Service at 9:15 and 11:00 am How do we live? Are we, as our UU principles suggest, part of the "interconnected web of existence"? Or do we sometimes act as if we are separate and isolated, as if we have no impact on the web and it does not touch us? In this era of division and narcissism, perhaps we need a touchstone to guide us toward a life of in harmony with all creation. Trust is that touchstone. This is the sermon topic recommended by the winners of the 2018 Food Fair "Sermon Topic" lunch.
Remember the Dark: A Solstice Cantata
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Celebrant: Ben Spick
In "Remember the Dark," UU musician David Glasgow has written an evocative cantata, part choral performance, part one-act musical, that honors the dark of winter and the opportunity for rest and restoration. Thee UU Singers, under the direction of Karen Kraemer, will share the music and insights of Glasgow's work during the Sunday service.
A Stone of Hope
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Celebrants: Susan Gross (with support from Martha Shen)
In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his remarkable "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Dr. King asserted his faith that our nation could "hew out of a mountain of despair a stone of hope." In this month when our congregational theme is "Possibility," and our national political life sometimes feels like a mountain of despair, Dr. King's words challenge and inspire us to find that stone of hope.
A Possibility for Survival
Service at 9:15 and 11:00 am Celebrant: Kellie Patterson This month we ask how we can be a people of possibility, together. Let us apply the insights of Bowen family systems theory to consider what is actually possible to do individually and collectively wherever we find ourselves. Special Music by: UU Singers
Thresholds
Service for all ages at 9:15 and 11:00 am Celebrant: Martha Shen Join us for our annual welcoming of the New Year. All who wish will be invited to pass through a threshold to set a compassionate intention for the New Year.
Will the Real Jesus Please Rise?
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On the verge of Christmas Eve, as Christians around the world celebrate a birth that happened more than 2,000 years ago, we Unitarian Universalists seek to discern the true meaning of that birth. As people of diverse theologies, we respect and celebrate a diversity of religious traditions. And we may rightly ask: "What is there in the life of Jesus of Nazareth that invites respect? Who was this Jesus, really?" Two millennia of history aside, what is there about Jesus to celebrate? Answering this question means looking past the assumptions and conventions of the season to discover the real Jesus. This service is suitable for people age 6 and older and is designed to welcome all our diverse theologies.