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
Most people, if they give any thought to impermanence, have a negative view of it. Why do good times have to end? Why do loved ones have to go? Why must health and youth fade? What we do not contemplate is that –were it not for impermanence– we’d be stuck forever in old problems, with unwanted company, … Continue reading The Joy of Impermanence
An overview of my personal journey through fundamentalist Christianity to a religion of inclusion, justice, and sustainability. The Rev. Dr. Mark Davies is the Oklahoma State Humanities Scholar for the Smithsonian Institute Museum on Main Street Water/Ways exhibit. He is also the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics; Director of the World House Institute for … Continue reading From Fundamentalism to Freedom – A Personal Journey
UNO Sunday On this United Nations Sunday, an exploration about an important global issue and be inspired to take action in the name of justice. That’s what the global U/U story is all about – Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists around the world engaging in liberal spiritual worship and doing their part to bend the … Continue reading The Global U/U Story
Don Rogers, Ellie Dyer, Jack Bolerjack, Jolene Whitten and Joyce Peak, speaking. all have a foundation upon which we build our religious philosophy. It is nestled deep in our soul rather than printed in any brochure and hungers to be shared. It comes from the depth of our own thought and heart. It is the … Continue reading This I Believe: Five Members Share their Credo
