Perhaps you’ve heard this joke: “What is a New Year’s resolution? Something that goes in one year and out the other.” At the cusp of 2021, we will take a semi-serious look at the tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions. Alongside a ‘yearful’ of jokes, we will explore what the practice of making New Year’s … Continue reading To Resolve, or Not to Resolve?
Join us for a traditional Christmas Eve service with candlelight (have a candle ready to light at home if you can), music, stories and lessons. Susan Ritchie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC Christmas Eve ServiceTime: December 24, 2020 7:00 PM Eastern Time Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/7541126323?pwd=d1J2dVhJeTJBMEk3UHA5emlhckppUT09 Meeting ID: 754 112 6323Passcode: … Continue reading Christmas Eve Service
In a season that stresses good cheer, Solstice calls us to a more thoughtful balance, presenting the complex interdependent beauty of light and darkness, summer and winter. This holiday also helps teach us the wisdom of understanding time as ever returning seasons. Susan Ritchie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC VIRTUAL … Continue reading The Necessity of Winter: Solstice Celebration
Rev. Susan recently reviewed the growing body of literature created in the time of covid, and came to an unexpected conclusion: sometimes it is spiritually appropriate to resist the rush to try to create meaning out of present circumstances. Susan Ritchie is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NUUC VIRTUAL WORSHIP AND SUNDAY … Continue reading Facetiming with Eels: On the Suspension of Meaning
This Sunday we introduce stillness as our theme of the month. What if the Christian season of advent is less about the anticipation of a miraculous baby, but about the gift of understanding that comes from traveling in the silence and the darkness with intention and patience: we are enough, exactly as we are. In … Continue reading Wait, Just for Now
We explore how the recipe for gratitude involves both effort and an openness to the graces beyond our control. In the tradition of our post-Thanksgiving service, there will be an opportunity to participate by sharing the blessings—whether small or large—that are sustaining to us right now. Sunday, 10:30 AM Join Zoom Meeting directly with this … Continue reading The Bread of Angels: What Is Sustaining to Us Now?
This Sunday we acknowledge the complexities of this Thanksgiving, with its scarcities and abundance, its ugly history and capacity to comfort. By embracing these paradoxes, we revel in the graces available to us even in the most difficult of times. Including an original solo by pianist Wade Jones and special guests from Freedom a la … Continue reading Feast AND Famine: The Paradoxes of Scarcity and Abundance
Last week we heard prayers of gratitude from the youngest children at North. Following their lead, we will take a bit of deep dive into the Jewish practice of blessing and consider how a regular practice of blessing the world around us – including that which is not obviously beautiful, good or just – can … Continue reading Holy Crap! Counting Our Blessings
While the election does not put an end to the dangerous divisions in American society, we have learned more of how it is we might live faithfully in the “belly of the whale.” We can “look for blue sky through the spout” by not allowing disappointments to dull our ability to see manifestations of beauty, … Continue reading Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale
On the occasion of All Saints Day, we explore how understanding ourselves as carrying the work of our ancestors into the future can connects us to powerful sources of meaning and courage. We then assemble our own congregational “cloud of witnesses”–invoking ancestors that offer us the vision and blessings we need for this turbulent election … Continue reading Invisible Strings: Turning Hauntings into Legacies and Ghosts into Ancestors
