adrienne maree brown, activist and student of complexity and change tells us we are living in other people’s imaginations. Currently, we find ourselves in a battle of imaginations. Science fiction can be subversively creative, can we live into author Octavia Butler’s admonition to “make revolution irresistible”? Our guest preacher today is Marti Thompson. Thompson is … Continue reading Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination
We celebrate Easter with an intergenerational flower celebration. If possible, bring a cut flower to service for each member of your party. EASTER EGG hunt immediately after worship. Join us in person, or online, link below. Current Covid Policy: Vaccines are strongly recommended. Masks are not required, but please consider that masks are our best … Continue reading Flower Celebration and Easter Egg Hunt
Rev. Ritchie explores the themes of miracles, signs and wonders inside of the Passover stories, charting how such stories can expand our own moral imagination and capacity to respond to change with resilience and even grace. Current Covid Policy: Vaccines are strongly recommended. Masks are not required, but please consider that masks are our best … Continue reading If There is A Fire on the Mountain: A Passover Reflection
Rev. Ritchie recounts the many institutions and practices, from rural cemeteries to cremation to memorial societies and green burials, that Unitarian Universalists have put in place to make sure that the dying, the dead and those in mourning are not exploited, but rather granted the maximum of agency and dignity in their hour of need. … Continue reading The Good Death, Unitarian Universalist Style
In honor of Women’s History Month, Rev. Ritchie explores some snapshots from Unitarian Universalist history where women creatively subverted gender myths and conventions, and what lessons we might carry forward from that work into the current day. Attend in person or online. Congregational meeting to immediately follow worship, stay on the worship link to attend. … Continue reading Myth America, UU Style
Rev. Ritchie shares how critical race theory, with its emphasis on the frank presentation of vulnerability accompanied by the resistance to privatization of pain, restored her sense of wholeness in a trying time in her personal life. Similarly, it can offer a path forward for a wounded nation. And yet Critical Race Theory is currently … Continue reading True Confessions of a Critical Race Theorist
Taking a leap of faith can be terrifying. It requires courage, trust and just a bit of stupidity. No one does it better than cartoon characters. We can learn a great deal about the art of leaping and falling from them but what they cannot teach us is what happens after the fall. Intern Minister … Continue reading What Saturday Morning Cartoons Did Not Teach Us About Leaping and Falling
Rev. Ritchie explores the religious convictions of President Jimmy Carter, especially as they relate to love, democracy, and the role of religion in public life. Inspired by Carter’s definition of faith, we’ll also delve into what faith means in an explicitly Unitarian Universalist context. Current Covid Policy: Vaccines are strongly recommended. Masks are not required, … Continue reading The Faith of a President
Rev. Ritchie recounts the radical origins of the self-care movement to explore how the duty of love we owe ourselves is far more complicated and less selfish than we might think. Attend in person, or online, Zoom link below. Current Covid Policy: Vaccines are strongly recommended. Masks are not required, but please consider that … Continue reading How Not to Be a Jerk (to Yourself)
Intern Minister Jacquie Zarley revisits Jane Elliott’s Blue Eye/ Brown Eye exercise and examines how far we have come in the 50+ years since the exercise was first presented to a third-grade classroom. Have we fully grasped the point of the exercise; the utter absurdity of discrimination and prejudice based on skin color? Can we … Continue reading What If We Have Blue Eyes?
