Why meditate? In our driven, achievement-focused world, what are the benefits of learning to create stillness inside yourself? Elena Westbrook will introduce a few different approaches, including breathing techniques and Tonglen meditation, that can be a powerful part of your spiritual practice. Elena Westbrook returns to our pulpit this morning. Elena is an active member … Continue reading The Still Point of the Turning World
A hopeful look forward for the 2020’s – the make or break decade of the make or break century. Rev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics, Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility, and Executive Director of the Leadership. Education, and Development Hub … Continue reading 20/20 Vision: Can We See Clearly Now?
The first Sunday of the new year is a time for reflection and introspection. It is a time of new beginnings and possibilities. To our ritual of letting go (flame), metaphoric cleansing (water), setting intentions (oil), and new beginnings (light), we are adding a way to reconnect to the Earth and growing things. We will … Continue reading A Ritual for the Season
We conclude this worship year, as is our tradition, with a morning assembly featuring all of us, everyone who would like to share a reading, song, poem, or a story. Being at the cusp concluding the first decade of the century and launching into the second one, what thought do you bring to this transition? … Continue reading Sitting On The Cusp Of A Year
Three special observances coalesce within this week-end. The Winter solstice on Saturday evening celebrates a pagan heritage. Christians look with Joy on this third Sunday of Advent and Jews light the first Hanukkah candle at dusk Sunday evening. Our assembly today will celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and Solstice in readings and music.
When life gets you down, whether from personal or global tragedy, it is important to find your laughter. As Josh Billings says about laughter, “Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and it is just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.” Come … Continue reading Laughter in Dark Times
Chalica begins Monday, December 2nd and ends next Sunday, December 8. For these seven days Unitarian Universalists celebrate one principle on each day. The last Sunday, is normally devoted to the last principle. The worship team has invited seven members to each select one principle and share what it means to them. The speakers are … Continue reading Celebration of Chalica and our Seven Principles
We seem to find ourselves in an increasingly post-truth society in which many people simply confuse truth with ideology or whatever gets repeated the most by their favorite politicians or news sources. What does it mean for something to be true and why does this matter for the creation of human and ecological flourishing in … Continue reading What is Truth and Why Does It Matter?
Our familiar and well-loved hymn of thanks and praise is the inspiration for this musical service at the cusp of Thanksgiving and the holiday season. Our talented musical volunteers and the Worship Team present a morning program that mines the riches of our Singing the Living Tradition and Singing The Journey hymnals to celebrate not … Continue reading For All That Is Our Life – All Music Assembly
A look at three points in American History from 1619 when the first African slaves arrived to 1919 when the largest deportation of immigrants from these shores took place and to 2019 where questions of who are citizens, who are immigrants, who belongs and who decides still plague us. Ponder this fact of history: without … Continue reading White Lion, Radicals, and UU Values
