Most of us have been taught to strive for goals and to measure our success in money made, our weight, scores on health and cognitive tests, things done on lists, but what if we reframed how we thought of successful lives as living into possibilities?
We will be closing out the old year and ushering in the new with a beautifully interactive service featuring Music and Poetry laced with Contemplation and a Fire Ceremony.
Come together to revel in the Beauty, Music, and Magic of Christmas as we tell the old stories and sing the old carols. We will end the Service with our traditional candle lighted “Silent Night” recessional to the courtyard. Cookies and hot cider will be served afterward.
This Christmas story about Hoshmakatu, the camel who carried the Magi’s gifts, will be told as reader’s theater. In this whole community spirit worship, we will sing Christmas Carols and remember how giving to others can transform us.
The holiday season promises joy and merriment, but for many of us this season also means pain such as grief, loss, loneliness and disappointment. This evening service will offer quiet contemplation and ritual to acknowledge this pain.
During the holidays we celebrate the return of light and hope, but first we must enter the darkness and learn what it has to teach us. Children will explore mystery in their religious education classes.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner. That is certainly true for Unitarian Universalists. Our history of racial justice is full of amazing courage as well as unrecognized racism and difficulty negotiating white privilege. These stories affect our movement today.
The Tricks of Memory: Memories are not solid like a photograph, instead they shift and change. What was remembered and not remembered was painfully put on stage last month by our country. What is memory? How does it affect who we are and what we do?
Our community will celebrate Samhain today. Samhain is a Pagan holiday from the Celtic tradition that celebrates the deepening of the dark as fall continues its progress toward winter. Pagans believe, as do many other faiths and folk traditions that this time of year is when the veil thins between the living and the dead. … Continue reading Intergenerational Samhain Service
Finding Sanctuary Within, Offering Sanctuary Without: Offering sanctuary to others can mean being uncomfortable, getting challenged, feeling afraid, and doing things differently. Is it possible to offer sanctuary to others when you desperately want sanctuary yourself?
