This is a day for getting out our maps and thinking through our personal travel memories and geography lessons, of the literal and spiritual kinds. Rev. David H. Messner will lead our service in-person today. This will also be New Member Sunday. To join the service via livestream on YouTube at 10:30 a.m., please click here. … Continue reading “The Farthest Reaches”
Our Worship Leader, Rev. Ben Bortin, writes: “I have never paid attention to the subject of attention… as a sermon topic. But I’m happily changing my ways! Attention is an intriguing, thought-provoking, and important life issue.” Rev. Ben Bortin served as minister of First UU Congregation of Duluth, Minnesota for eight years and the UU … Continue reading “Attention as a Spiritual Practice”
This practice of offering kindness and care to one another can be a way of life. But for it to be sustainable, we must learn… Rev. DavId H. Messner addresses us remotely as we gather in our sanctuary. To join the service via livestream on YouTube at 10:30 a.m., please click here. (You can also … Continue reading “Being For Each Other”
Resilience lives in the body – in the breath that steadies us, the muscles that learn when to brace and when to soften, the nervous systems shaped by care and harm. In this service, we attend to resilience as something we practice with our whole selves. Through guided awareness, story, and reflection, we explore how … Continue reading “Breath, Bone, and Becoming”
Dr. Jarrett Drake from Stony Brook University will speak about black activists, from Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What do the words and actions of these prophetic men and women mean for our present political moment? Presented by the Racial Concerns Committee. To join the service via … Continue reading “Strike a Match”
