We come together this morning to celebrate the awe of the present moment. How can learning to live in the present nourish and sustain us through the suffering of life?

Today we will celebrate the beauty of community with Flower Communion. We will welcome new children, wish our youth well for our futures, and celebrate all sorts of transitions in our community, all the while remembering how beautiful community is.

Curiosity if the foundation of all learning and all religious exploration. This sermon will explore the foundation of religious education and what education WHUUF wants our children and youth. This will be a culmination of WHUUF’s interim period for religious education as we prepare for our new Director of Religious Education.

Can curiosity save the world? Curiosity can be such a gentle, playful thing, and can open us wider to ourselves and the world?

The renewal of spring is an easy hope. We know it returns each and every year. As climate change and dying insects leave us on the verge of ecological collapse, spring hope isn’t as easy. Life may not return each year in the same ways. The Christian hope of Easter is resurrection. While most UU’s … Continue reading Easter Hope

Many faiths have a theology of salvation and wholeness. We sometimes think of this as a healing of brokenness, but what if it just means you are whole just as you are?

Our government and media intensify fear. Fear is a toxic, addictive emotion and it is contagious. Fear narrows our vision and erases our compassion. In a culture saturated by fear, how do we stay confident of the basic goodness of existence?

Living the Journey of Compassion. Compassion is at the center of WHUUF’s mission. We will reflect on what being on a journey toward more compassion might be.

Trusting Ourselves to Be the People We Want to Be We spent January considering possibilities and in February we turn to trust. How do we trust ourselves to live into possibilities? Today we will consider how trusting our capacity to make a contribution makes new worlds possible.

Our government and society currently shares many characteristics with fascist regimes. The worst of these are to villianize, to hate and to despair. We must live into love and possibilities.