Sunday, September 27, 2020 Put Down the Duckie Lay speaker Jack Miller “Put down the duckie.” There may be times when putting something down is a better choice than letting something go. How are these two ideas different? To Join ZOOM Meeting ON COMPUTER: Go to Zoom link (Meeting ID: 224 677 6604) To Join … Continued

Sunday, September 20, 2020 Celebrating the Equinox During a Pandemic: New ways of doing ancient things Rev. Dawn Fortune The Fall Equinox marks the midpoint between high summer and deepest winter. It, with its spring mate, are the ultimate liminal times of our year – when we are evenly between those seasonal extremes. It is … Continued

Sunday, September 13, 2020 Here We Are Gathered (Water Ceremony/Ingathering) Rev. Dawn Fortune Each year, congregations around the US participate in the annual ritual of Ingathering by combining bottles and vials of water brought from home or far away, to be blessed and used in our rituals throughout the year. Unable to pour water together … Continued

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Labor Day and the 40-Hour Week Rev. Dawn Fortune Born in the sweatshops of the Industrial Revolution, Labor Unions in the United States fought for – and achieved – laws and policies that banned child labor, regulated working conditions and fair wages for unionized workers. The notion that workers might require … Continued

Sunday, August 30, 2020 The Allure of the Politics of Us vs. Them Lay speaker Cynthia Grzywinski Over the last several years, a disturbing seismic shift has taken place in countries throughout the world, including our own. Government systems of formerly democratic nations such as Hungary, the Philippines, and Turkey, are now lead by autocratic-minded … Continued

Sunday, August 23, 2020 There Is No Away: An Ethic of Solidarity Amid Disposability Guest minister Rev. Theresa Ines Soto What responsibility do Unitarian Universalists have in days steeped in call-out culture, threats of disposability, and isolation. Join us to explore how the thinking, feeling and doing fit together on this subject. To Join ZOOM … Continued

Sunday, August 16, 2020 Make of Yourself a Light Guest minister Rev. Paul Langston-Daley Mary Oliver writes that the Buddha’s last instruction was to “Make of yourselves a light.” What does it mean to be a light for others, to be a bodhisattva, to return again and again to the central values of love and … Continued

Sunday, August 9, 2020 You Have To Ride The Wave Guest minister Rev. KC Slack “…you had to constantly try to understand what was going on and how to survive in this space…and how not to…go under. You’re on your own, and then, politics is in your life. You have to ride the wave.” – … Continued

Sunday, August 2, 2020 Bending Ourselves Toward Justice Lay speaker Michael Cluff We’ve heard that “the arc of the universe is long and bends toward justice.” As we UUs know all too well, sometimes the universe needs to bend a little harder. Michael will talk about the ways we might get in our own way … Continued

Sunday, July 26, 2020 What Kind Of World Do We Want? Guest minister Rev. Edith A. Love We keep hearing about people longing to “go back to normal,” but maybe normal wasn’t a healthy place for the world to be. Let’s explore what’s possible. To Join ZOOM Meeting ON COMPUTER: Go to Zoom link (Meeting … Continued