In honor of Black History month (this service was originally scheduled for February but cancelled due to snow), the Racial Concerns Committee and our service leader Dr. Jazmen Moore will focus on Black girlhood as a site of possibility and share how Black girls work critically and collaboratively to establish creative spaces in their schools, … Continue reading Black History Service
Join us for the annual Unitarian Universalist Flower Ceremony. For just over 100 years, Unitarians, and then Unitarian Universalists, have been celebrating the Flower Ceremony each spring. This ceremony, first conducted by the Rev. Norbert Čapek in Prague in 1923, aims to acknowledge beauty and bring it into our lives. It is also a time … Continue reading Flower Ceremony
Despair comes from stories that have become so small that all of the hope has been squeezed out of them. To recover from despair we need to expand our stories to hold more – more hope, more love, more possibility. How do we bring to bear the ideals and realities of our faith to create … Continue reading Right-Sizing Our Stories
”The living tradition we share draws from many sources.” This is a fundamental difference that distinguishes Unitarian Universalism from the monotheistic faith traditions. A short list of these sources is noted, among other places, in the front of our hymnals. An additional source might be the stories of our own, individual experience, stories that have … Continue reading Claiming the Stories that Shape Our Faith
In the adapted words of Rev. Jane Rzepka, “We have wintered long enough. In this, the season of steady rebirth we will find our hearts again, and our good spirits. We will love, and believe, and give and wonder and feel, again, the eternal powers. The flow of life moves ever onward through one faithful … Continue reading Easter
