This hot button topic means many different things to UU’s. Belief, doubt, trust, loyalty, commitment, secular, religious, irrational, engaged, ironclad, unshakable, absolute… Like prayer, how can we have faith in a way that resonates with UU beliefs?
Gratitude for what comes to us, for what we can share, for the amazing experiences life grants to us; gratitude for community itself. We gather to focus on all of these things as we share simple bread and clean water.
Faith: what exactly is it? Sometimes it rather scares us, in the context of blind faith or absolute faith. What role does doubt play? In Unitarian Universalism, we believe that faith and doubt reinforce one another, each making the other stronger through the years. We cannot have one without the other, can we?
Each year, we remember those loved ones who have passed from our lives. You are invited to bring pictures or mementos. Names are listed during the service and all are invited to speak the name of the beloved one who has died or to share a brief memory.
The highest holy day of the Pagan year is Samhain, New Year. We remember, celebrate, honor.
If you don’t have a creed, what holds us together? Covenant, of course! Our determination and promise to stay here through good and bad, to create a community of support and growth, to find meaning together. It’s not easy; but it’s rich. We welcome new members in the services this morning.
Really. Whoever you are, we welcome you. This multi-generation service will feature Shel Silverstein story, creating words in many languages, and focus on welcoming our neighbors.
Hospitality has so many meanings. “Will you come to dinner?” “Come in from the cold.” “Let me offer you sanctuary from homelessness, deportation, loneliness.” What does it mean to you? Where have you experienced hospitality? When have you offered hospitality?
We begin the monthly theme of Hospitality this week. How are we welcoming and hospitable as individuals, as a church, and as a society? How can we grow in hospitality? Each of the three worship leaders will offer a different perspective on this topic: one at the personal level, one at the church level, and … Continue reading Hospitality: More Than Just Making Friends
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
