As we continue this year’s generosity campaign, “Filling Our Sails,” we explore financial giving and our UU values, with stories from Rev. Elizabeth’s sailing days and with an approach that leaves behind a scarcity mindset and looks at all we can do in community.
This Sunday is the third in our series exploring the proposed UU values. Drawing from the language of the Article II proposal, we’ll explore equity within our own congregation and consider how we can create community where we can all flourish. And, of course, we’ll add to our mural on the back wall, creating an … Continue reading I Want to See You Flourish
We have a guest in our pulpit this week! Come join in familiar songs, a story, and a message about how we can respond to loneliness. This opportunity to hear from an unfamiliar voice is always a gift to the congregation. Rev. Elizabeth is so excited to welcome a colleague to our church and give … Continue reading The Loneliness Antidote
Join our guests, Elsa and Anna (from Frozen II), for this multigenerational service as they tell us how they learned of an injustice in their own community and how they resolved it. We’ll take their experiences and look at how we can solve a problem ourselves and create a multigen service that helps everyone in … Continue reading JUSTICE LESSONS FROM Frozen II
This Sunday we do some of the difficult work of learning about messages of justice and our responsibility from our collective place of relative privilege. Liberation theologies exist to hold and be a message of hope for specific communities that have experienced marginalization or oppression. Unitarian Universalism has, for the most part, been a faith … Continue reading Getting Uncomfortable: The Message of Liberation Theology in UU Community
This Sunday we do some of the difficult work of learning about messages of justice and our responsibility from our collective place of relative privilege. Liberation theologies exist to hold and be a message of hope for specific commiunities that have experienced marginalization or oppression. Unitarian Universalism has, for the most part, been a faith … Continue reading Getting Uncomfortable: The Message of Liberation Theology in UU Community
Today we continue our series exploring the proposed UU values. We will explore the value of Justice from the angle of more fully integrating the call to be a world of greater justice by building connections and learning directly from and with people who experience injustice in our communities. What is our role, as individuals, … Continue reading But First, Connect: The UU Value of Justice
A sermon by Rev. Amy Russell “Learning how to listen is learning how to love. What a wonderful idea. That if we learned how to listen without an agenda, without preparing ourselves for our response back, without judgment, we could love better. How many times in our families do we really do this? Sit down … Continue reading “A Listening Heart”
