Speaker: Rev. Elaine Strawn

Looking Toward the Future

This is the Jewish high holy season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when Jew examine the year immediately past and solemnly prepare for the year to come.  In the Hindu tradition, this is the season of Dusserah celebrating the victory of good over evil and the return of the Dharma.  This is in preparation … Continue reading Looking Toward the Future

Experiencing Beauty

Our 9:30 service will encompass story, music, and visuals.  Our 11:00 service will be less “active” with a little more time for contemplation. This service is multigenerational.  There are no RE classes, only Nursery care offered.  

Beauty

In this first of our themes, we focus on Beauty…How do we recognize it? How to we create it? How does it bless the world around us?  How to we make time for it? The choir will sing at this service.

Water Communion

We gather together as a full community this Sunday, bringing reminders and memories from the places we’ve been during the summer. This is an interactive, sharing, service. We invite you to share a meaningful memory of your summer, and/or bring drops of water which symbolize your journeys.  We pour this water together,  symbolizing our coming … Continue reading Water Communion

A Nation Maturing

Sen. Ben Sasse has written The Vanishing American Adult: Our coming of Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance.  We will focus on these ideas and compare them to those of  Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 19th century take on the subject.

And What of the UUs?

The UUs will gather in New Orleans for a Justice General Assembly.  We will use some of the worship resources and social justice actions.

Building Beauty with Diversity: Flower Communion

This month’s theme: Widening the Circle of Justice. On this beautiful day, we gather blossoms from our yards and bring them to the service. They make a lovely bouquet…which we will take home with us.  Norbert Capek originated this story in war-torn Czechoslovakia.

Including All the Voices

This month’s theme: Widening the Circle of Justice. As we finish our multi-gen Practicing the Principles series, we focus on our 5th Principle: using the democratic process. We live in a culture struggling to include all the voices….just as we covenant to practice this principle at home and in our congregation.

The Lessons We Carry from Childhood

This month’s theme: Widening the Circle of Justice Lessons we learn in childhood stay with us throughout our lives…whether we want them to, or not.  On this Parent’s Day, we will focus on some of these lessons.