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Honesty

Service leader Wendy Engelhardt will explore the concept of honesty, with ourselves and each other, as we strive to live into out 4th principle, a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. To join the service via livestream on YouTube at 10:30 a.m., please click here. (You can also use this link to view the … Continue reading Honesty

We Are Family: Getting to Know the Trans Community Better

Join us in getting to know the Trans Community better. Barbara Salva, the Director of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Long Island, will share some of her life experiences in the Trans community and reflect on the escalating violence and ongoing social justice issues impacting the Trans Community. To join the service via livestream on … Continue reading We Are Family: Getting to Know the Trans Community Better

Black History Service

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

Flower Ceremony

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

Right-Sizing Our Stories

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