Watch the video here. Summer is a season of change. Families move in to the area for new jobs, students arrive for a new school year, and people make the brave decision to try out new religious communities, to see if they might be a good fit! Today, we have the joy and privilege of … Continue reading How to Welcome Like a UU
View the video here. A few weeks ago, our new church board members met for their first meeting, and we spent some time talking through a resource called “How to think like a Board Member.” And it made me wonder, How can we think like a Unitarian Universalist? How do we put our faith and … Continue reading How to Think Like a UU
View the video here. The mystic Dorothy Day once wrote that in the midst of social upheaval and deep anxiety, there was “nothing to do but love” those who were in need – and the activist Dorothy Day showed every day how to put that love into action. In the midst of our own times … Continue reading Nothing to Do But Love
Watch the video here. We live in difficult times, and in our faith community, we may be tempted to try to just hold steady, or even to retreat to a familiar, comfortable spot. Our larger community needs what we have found here at UUCH, and we are called to act courageously and push forward to … Continue reading The Forward Imperative
As Unitarian Universalists we uphold interdependence and equity as two of our highest values. We also understand that interdependence is not an aspiration, but an irrefutable scientific and spiritual truth. In this service, we will investigate what it means to truly see each other as other faces of the divine, of the necessary whole. How … Continue reading Blessing the Space Between Us
Watch the video here. At this year’s General Assembly conference, our UU community was lectured to by Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop to Washington DC. In her lecture, she commended UU’s saying one of our superpowers is that we are often the first to take a stand on the important justice issues of … Continue reading Meeting The Moment: GA Reflections
View the video here. As our country marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, lets look forward and backward. What wisdom, practices, and values should we bring with us into the next 250 years. What pain needs healing? What change needs making? With hope and clarity about the times we are in, we will reflect … Continue reading The Next 250 Years
View the video here. On this special Pride Sunday, LGBTQ people in our congregation will share with us what Pride means for them, and then we will bless each other with our glitter communion. Wear your pride gear and join us for this celebratory final Sunday of the church year!
View the video here. What does it mean to truly belong to one another, not as an ideal we aspire toward, but as a truth already woven into the fabric of existence? The longing for connection and belonging is itself evidence of a deep unity that underlies all religious and spiritual traditions. Our work is … Continue reading Interbeing: Cherished Belonging
