We will celebrate Christmas Eve with the traditional stories and songs, and a no-rehearsal pageant for all ages. Afterward, we will have cider and cookies. Please bring cookies to share.

The Holiday Awe: One of the purposes of the winter holidays is to remind us of the miraculous of life on earth and the human spirit. What happened?

Our world is so full of sound and distraction, especially around the holidays. The stopping of all sound and distraction allows the holy to seep in.

The on-going discrimination and violence against transgender people is often invisibible if we attend to regular news sources. It’s time to pay attention.

Attention is our most precious resource. It matters what we pay attention to. What influences what we attend to and can we change it?

We don’t only belong to the living, but to those who have died. Grief and remembrance rituals allow us to build a home for those who have passed on, and thus create a deeper belonging for ourselves. Please bring pictures to place up front (and retrieve after the service).

October 6 Over the years Unitarian Universalism left behind the traditional religious ideas of sin and atonement. We will consider how we might be nourished by rituals that allow us to admit we’ve failed and then return to right relationship and belonging.

The earth gets warmer, gaps in wealth and income grow, and nationalist racist regimes rise, including in our own country. How are we called to live together so something new, strong and unexpected can be born?

In this all-ages Wa ter Communion service we will hear a different perspective on what happened on Noah’s Ark, and consider what we might expect of ourselves this year.