Our culture has a very narrow idea of what makes a human person beautiful. Many of us, especially women, spend lives struggling to meet the standard and feeling badly if we don’t. How do we break out of this painful trap?
On this Flower Communion Sunday, we will celebrate the beauty of community. After two years of COVID we are still growing strong. If you can, please bring a flower or flowers!
On this Mother’s Day, we will consider the benefits of using our precious resource of attention to notice beauty.
We are of the earth, connected deeply through our minds and bodies. We will recognize Earth Day by attending to these connections.
In this multi-generational celebration, we will celebrate the awakening of life from loss, despair and death.
Most faith traditions have a way to help members deal with suffering of all kinds, including pain from deep injustice. Does Unitarian Universalism?
Spiritual practice is an important way for us to stay connected with what we most deeply value and trust. Practices such as meditation and prayer have helped people for millennia live rich, fulfilling lives.
Sometimes UUs cringe at the word “faith” because they think it means “believing without evidence” but faith also means “trust.” What do we trust to be true? What do UUs trust?
In June 2020, the UUA’s Commission on Institutional Change published a report analyzing structural and systemic racism and white supremacy culture within Unitarian Universalism and offering recommendations for long-term cultural and institutional change. How might WHUUF engage with these recommendations?
Why does it matter that WHUUF exists? How does it make a difference in our lives? How might it make a difference in people we’ve never met?
Intentions sometimes have unintended consequences. On the journey we learn things we didn’t know. Sometimes it is in our best interest or in the best interest of people around us that we quit what we intended to. How do stay focused on what we want while attending to all the ways our behavior affects others?
In her book Active Hope, environmentalist and Buddhist Joanna Macy helps us understand practically how to create hope by working together to build the world we want to live in, just like Martin Luther King, Jr. worked to do.
What if going to church is an act of intention? Living as if we were interconnected to each other and all life is not easy in a culture that tells us individual wants are paramount. We have to be intentional, and being part of a UU congregation helps us do that.
If you haven’t received an invitation to reserve a seat for this service, please contact us at admin@WHUUF.org. “Christmas in Song and Story” ~ Rev. Tracy Springberry (in-person, live stream, and recorded) We will tell the old story and sing the old songs and bring in Christmas with Silent Night.
Saint Francis of Assisi wrote, For it is in giving that we receive. In the pressure of consumerism to give perfect gifts during the holiday season, sometimes it is easy to lose the way that giving is what opens us to joy and connection.
Joy is a natural feeling for all mammals and adds to the richness of our lives, but sometimes we get blocked and can’t feel it at all. What blocks joy and how can we free it?
The stories so many of us learned in history class such as Thanksgiving and Christopher Columbus can keep us confused about what is really going on.
Mostly we don’t think that God is something with a history. Instead, God is something to believe in or not—or, perhaps, it is a concept to argue. The reasons we have those reactions to the idea of God are historical and worth reflecting on.
This is the story of Unitarian Universalists’ ongoing quest to be more loving.
Today we will consider our relationship to our ancestors and beloved dead. Those relationships don’t die as long as we are alive, and can enrich our lives.
