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.

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.

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?