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What If I Had Only 30 Days to Love? Siding With Love Sunday

Spring ahead! Daylight Savings Time Starts Today. Download The Morning Program here … OR read it below What If I Had Only 30 Days to Love Side With Love Sunday This year’s Side with Love Sunday focuses on Love, featuring stirring music, deep-hearted discourse, and moving testimonies from a range of UU leaders.  

Waging Peace in a Climate of Conflict

Download The Morning Program here – or read it w/o downloading below. ABOUT THIS MORNING’S ASSEMBLY:   An exploration of proactive practices for peace in a world ripe for conflict. INTRODUCING OUR GUEST MINISTER: Leading today’s morning assembly is the Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies.  Mark is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics at … Continue reading Waging Peace in a Climate of Conflict

Love After Love – Rev Dr Thandeka – (video message)

THE MORNING PROGRAM Many of today’s “spiritual but not religious” people – one in four US adults – have found the access point to spiritual experience that Western Christianity lost: unconditional love.   Thandeka sees in the emergence of the “spiritual but not religious” community a great potential for her goal of “love beyond belief.” She … Continue reading Love After Love – Rev Dr Thandeka – (video message)

The Power of Justice: The Life and Legacy of Desmond Tutu

Reflections on the life of one of the most important leaders for racial and social justice of our time and the gifts he left us to address the urgent challenge for social justice in the present and future.​​ THE MORNING PROGRAM With Amazement & Admiration Our Annual Thanks and Appreciation Gathering On Sunday, Feb. 20 … Continue reading The Power of Justice: The Life and Legacy of Desmond Tutu

Side With Love – Reproductive Justice

THHE MORNING PROGRAM This year’s Thirty Days of Love is focusing on four themes from the recently published report called Widening the Circle of Concern, which was developed by the Commission on Institutional Change, a UUA Board commissioned group charged with researching, reporting, and making recommendations for transforming white supremacy and other oppressions in the … Continue reading Side With Love – Reproductive Justice

Mindful Peacemaking: The Life and Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh

Reflections on the life of one of the most important peacemakers of our time and the gifts he left us to address the urgent challenge of peacemaking in the present and future. THE MORNING PROGRAM (also available below) Leading today’s morning assembly is the Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies.  Mark is the Wimberly Professor of … Continue reading Mindful Peacemaking: The Life and Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh

One True Thing –

Finding Your One True Thing Download the Morning Program here The Morning Program We share a faith that claims to value questions over answers. Nevertheless, UUs are as vulnerable as everyone else to all the ways humans leap to judgment and even dogmatism. In a complicated, angry country lining up to take rigid sides, is … Continue reading One True Thing –

The Sin of Nicaea

The Sin of Nicaea The Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies, leading You can read the Morning Program at the bottom of this post, or you can download the Morning Program to your device. An exploration of problematic relationships between church and state, especially when the power of the state is used to enforce adherence to … Continue reading The Sin of Nicaea

The Great Depression: Pain and Relief

The Great Depression: Pain and Relief Dr. Glenn Melancon from Southeastern will be our guest speaker The Morning Program Of his discourse, our visiting speaking writes: The Great Depression caused an incredible amount of physical and psychological pain. Conservative economics believed the pain necessary for a return to normal.  Pain taught people the cost of … Continue reading The Great Depression: Pain and Relief