For the 2021 30 Days of Love, the UUA created this worship service centered on 4 themes from a Widening the Circle of Concern, a report from the Commission on Institutional Change, a UUA Board-commissioned group charged with researching, reporting, and making recommendations for transforming white supremacy and other oppressions in the institutional history and practices of ...
Ancient Hebrew scripture describes a great promise that God made with the world. That promise might be more important now, than ever before. Join us as we explore this promise and its meaning for us today.
In 2014, the Rev. Joanna Fontaine Crawford wrote these words in her Boots and Blessings blog: “Our job, our mission, is to take all of that love, all that overflowing, passionate, undying love and train it on the hell that exists in this world. We are Unitarian Universalists — from one source, to one destiny ...
Once upon a time, Coyote lost his songs, his music and his dance. Once upon a time, so did I. Both Coyote and I were determined to dance again. The stories we’ll share are about how that was possible. The service is a celebration of the importance and the power of community.
There is too much yet undone to say yes to calls for unity and for healing. This is a time to hold ground, to hold it stubbornly and with purpose. This is a time to call for accountability so that justice might take root more deeply in our ever imperfect democracy. This Sunday’s reflection is ...
Unitarian Universalists promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Even with this stated focus on individual search, we sometimes focus on truth from facts and reason while diminishing the truths to be found in fictional stories or mythology. Some of our deepest personal and communal truths, however, cannot be expressed only with ...
The poem “Cross That Line” by Naomi Shihab Nye, the story of Paul Robeson singing from the United States across the border into Canada, and a personal story from a long ago visit to the King Center in Atlanta come together for two purposes: to serve as a reminder of a promissory note defaulted on ...
This pandemic time has revealed us to be people of compassion and love, of self centeredness and fear, people who long for freedom and for justice. Such complex and sometimes contradictory revelations about who we are, and who we aspire to be, offer us an opportunity to begin to reimagine our world. This worst of ...
You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope some day you’ll join us And the world will be as one Imagination is a great skill for children, helping them to understand the world and explore ideas. It is also a great skill for adults, imagining the future that can ...
In this final week of 2020, we let go of our burdens and we set intentions for 2021. As we draw inspiration from the New Orleans-style jazz funeral, we say goodbye to the old and create space for the new. For this service, please have pen and paper ready. Rev. Pamela Wat and Worship Associate ...