While our universe is full of awe-inspiring places and creatures, most of us don’t spend our days hiking mountains or swimming with dolphins. NUUC member Morgan Patten explores how we can inspire feelings of awe in the more mundane parts of our lives – and how can we use our capacity for awe to deepen … Continue reading Inspiring Awe

The younger children are with us for the first part of worship, and the 6th graders and up for the whole service, as we introduce this month’s theme in worship and religious education, “Awe.”

Our annual intergenerational celebration of Thanksgiving, complete with bread communion.

NUUC member and Veteran Jeff Hill offers the worship today, on the intersection of our monthly theme of “attention” with his experience as a veteran of military service.

How paying attention to details in our everyday life can expand our spiritual capacity. 

The younger children are with us for the first part of worship, and the sixth graders and up for the whole service, as we introduce this month’s theme in worship and religious education, “Attention.”  In this service we explore spiritual disciplines as a mean of focusing attention on what matters most.

NUUC Member Marty Keith offers a worship on the theme of the pagan holiday of Samhain. 

The future of not just religious institutions—but families, friendships, and secular communities—depend on new and hybrid models for bringing people together.  

We think of belonging as being about how we are in community.  True, and yet, the first step is about being true to ourselves

The younger children are with us for the first part of worship, and the sixth graders and up for the whole service, as we introduce this month’s theme in worship and religious education, “Belonging.” As this is also the period of the Jewish High Holidays, we discuss the questions of inspiration versus appropriation: what is … Continue reading Belonging