Rev. Bruce Bode, Guest Minister Jenny Weaver, Worship Associate This sermon will offer a range of thoughts, feelings, reflections, and perspectives as we draw near to this consequential national election.
Rev. Barbara Gilday, Guest Minister Nancy Philip, Worship Associate From time to time in our lives, we find ourselves questioning who we are – graduating from school, becoming a parent, losing a job or a special relationship, retiring, or experiencing a serious health crisis. etc. At these times, it’s helpful to have a template to … Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? Four Questions to Ponder Your Past, Present, and Future.
David Korten, Guest Speaker Johanna Munson, Worship Associate Fran’s service on October 6 reminds us that according to Genesis, God gave us dominion over the Earth, presumably to exploit for whatever we choose. Recently, in obedience to that dictum, we crafted an economics that tracks human progress by growth in human consumption. If that story … Continue reading Our Story and the Purpose of Our Being
Fran Korten, Guest Speaker Gregory Cook, Worship Associate In the Bible, Genesis tells us that God gave man dominion over all the creatures of the Earth. That “old story” is well embedded in our culture with many dysfunctional results. We need a “new story” that recognizes we are simply one species among many other species, … Continue reading The Shift to a New Story
Grace Bonow, Guest Speaker Nancy Philip, Worship Associate What’s Up With Young People These Days?: A Teenager’s View on Today’s WorldThe world is a complicated place. It’s full of catastrophic problems like climate change, social injustice, and of course the millennia-old complaint: young people. How do young people today see the world? How can we … Continue reading What’s Up with Young People These Days?
Rev. Barry Andrews, Guest MinisterJenny Weaver, Worship Associate For many people today, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a quaint relic of the nineteenth century, or worse yet, a dead white male with little to offer contemporary Americans. Not so for me. I have spent many years reading and reflecting on his writings. I have taught classes, … Continue reading Emerson & Me
Johanna Munson, Guest Speaker Gregory Cook, Worship Associate According to Albert Einstein’s law of conservation, mass and energy are interchangeable, and the sum stays constant. What if we apply this to the cycle of life and death? There are as many stories of afterlife as there are spiritual traditions; however some traditions exclude the possibility … Continue reading E=MC2: The Case for an Afterlife
Rev. Jennifer Alvair, Guest Minister Gregory Cook, Worship Associate Water Communion is an annual ritual of welcoming one another back into community after our summer travels. This uniquely UU ritual reminds us that we all come from water, we are made of mostly water, and just like the way water scatters into raindrops and streams, … Continue reading A Water Communion Blessing
In-Person Service in Webster Hall at 10:00 a.m. Sandy Spear, Board Member and Educator Mike Cox, Worship Associate What are the best practices for emotional self-regulation? According to Dr. Marc Brackett at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, there is extensive research on emotional self-regulation.
In-Person Service in Webster Hall at 10:00 a.m. Rev. William (Bill) Comfort, Guest Minister Gregory Cook, Worship Associate The title comes from the name of a meditative way of interacting with scripture called Lectio Divina. In Lectio Divina a person reads a piece of scripture over several times slowly until a part of the text … Continue reading Natural Divina
