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
We will explore the theological legacy of universal salvation through the writings of the medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich. Julian described the unconditional love of God, discovered and rediscovered in a context of social isolation and epidemic. How can we meaningfully imagine a destiny of universal wellbeing, in a world of such material inequality? … Continue reading Universal Salvation and Unconditional Love
In this worship service, we explore the surprising role that Unitarianism played in bringing Buddhism to the West, as well as the spiritual compatibilities between Unitarian Universalism and Buddhism. Most of all we celebrate the deep truths and practices that emerge when open minds come together. Join us either in person (vaccines and masks required) … Continue reading Unitarian Universalists in the Lotus
The habits of mind and heart that keep the prospect of new possibilities, personal and communal, alive. Join us at 10:30 AM either in person (masked and vaccinated) or on Zoom. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC VIRTUAL WORSHIP AND SUNDAY PROGRAMMINGTime: 10:30 AM Sundays Join … Continue reading The Moon, Green Cheese, and the Art of the Possible
The death this past week of the liberal and controversial Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong prompts this week’s reflection on what it is that we know—and don’t know—about the historical life of Jesus. In this we discover common ground between Jesus, Spong, and our own tradition: the belief that “one prepares for eternity by not … Continue reading Who Do You Say That I Am?
How can we take all the “pivoting” the pandemic has required us to do and shape it into a spiritual practice? “Turning,” the central metaphor of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, offers a path, and reminds us of our reasons for (In)Gathering. You can attend today’s worship either in person or on Zoom. If … Continue reading (Re)Turn Again: (In)Gathering 2021
We explore the intersections of the Buddhist idea of attachment and the Christian concept of idolatry in order to gather the spiritual resources necessary for embracing an unknown future with courage and creativity. Susan Ritchie (she, her, hers) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC VIRTUAL WORSHIP AND SUNDAY PROGRAMMINGTime: Sundays 10:30 … Continue reading Clingy, Much?
