Today we reflect on the Unitarian influence on what Christmas Dickens called his “Christmas Carol philosophy:” the fact we can be tempted to be good, and that the joy that we experience when we follow that urge is the both the meaning and the deepest expression of religious life. Attend in person (vaccinated and masked) … Continue reading How the Unitarians Invented Christmas: Part Two: The Dickens Factor
Reflections on change, pivots, loss, and enduring connection by Commissioned Lay Minister Teri Cornell. Attend in person (masked and vaccinated) or online (link below) at 10:30 AM on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC Sunday Morning WorshipTime: This is a recurring meeting … Continue reading Let it Be a Dance We Do
How celebrating the lessons offered by Winter can reveal the connections between self-care and transcendence. Join us Sunday morning at 10:30 AM, either in person (vaccinated and masked) or online. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82694590385?pwd=TlRCUitCa0VSdnNyY2tvemM5N29KUT09 Meeting ID: 826 9459 0385Passcode: 962432One tap mobile+13126266799,,82694590385#,,,,962432# US … Continue reading The Secret Ministry of Frost
Over the past 18 months, we have Zoomed through weddings, birthdays, memorial services, and holidays. It can be tempting to try to recapture what feels like so much lost time, especially during this season. How can we balance activity and rest? Commissioned Lay Leader Candidate Morgan Patten offers the message today. Attend in person (vaccinated and … Continue reading Let Rest Overnight: Embracing Rest and Baking Bread
In this worship we explore how modern Anglo America concerns about social equality grew out of a dialogue with Indigenous people of the New World, and their trenchant assessments of the shortcomings of European society. The result is a realization of how the blessings of wisdom require as much mixing as possible. 10:30 AM Sunday, … Continue reading Mixed Blessings: A Thanksgiving Service
Our seventh principle speaks of “respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” This week’s service will lead us to meditate on what it means to enter into this respectful stance. It involves recognizing that we are in relationship with our world, and that many of the relationships that … Continue reading Of Which We Are a Part
This service explores our monthly theme of “Holding History,” by offering a reflection on how we might learn to see better the traces of oppressed peoples whose histories have been largely erased, and how repopulating the landscape in this way is necessary to our own spiritual and personal wellbeing. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is … Continue reading Through A Glass, Darkly
So many eras and cultures have devised autumn rituals to celebrate the eternal truth: there is love after death. Join us in person or online at 10:30 Am Sunday. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC VIRTUAL WORSHIP AND SUNDAY PROGRAMMINGTime: This is a recurring meeting Meet … Continue reading Feeding the Ancestors
Former Poet Laureate and Pultizer Prize winning poet Rita Dove recently lamented of our times: “Truth would say these are arrogant times. Believers slaughter their doubters, while the greedy oil their lips with excuses and the righteous turn merciless, the merciful mad.” But she also holds out for the possibility of a new unity, to … Continue reading Arrogant Times
In this season, when we celebrate ghost stories and all the things that go bump in the night, we explore how wisdom and even ethical living requires reserving at least a small space for the irrational. Join us Sunday, October 17, at 10:30 AM, either in person (vaccinated and masked) or on Zoom (link below). … Continue reading When We Cease to Understand the World
