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January 11, 2026: The whole idea of “resistance” pushes people’s buttons. Sometimes our response comes from a discomfort with or rejection of the idea of resistance, and sometimes the button that’s pushed is a “Hell yes, let’s go!” button. […]
January 4, 2026: For the past several years Rev. Kevin has invited people to choose a word for the year. Some of us travel with the word all year, engaging it in active conversation with our lives. Others of us forget our word within a few weeks. […]
December 14, 2026: As our Soul Matters authors write, “Hope doesn’t just whisper ‘It will be different,’ it also shouts, ‘It should be different’ and ‘It can be different.’ […]
November 30, 2025: Transitioning from the gifts of November’s focus on cultivating gratitude, to December’s theme of choosing hope, we draw on the tradition of Advent (meaning “arrival”), a season of anticipation, […]
November 9, 2025: One year out from the 2024 presidential election, many of us feel the weight and the worry of the unmaking of so much of what evidenced or supported, if often imperfectly, our values […]
October 26, 2025: Thich Nhat Hanh stated: “To look deeply into the suffering of those who have caused us to suffer is a miraculous gift.” Gift? […]
October 12, 2025: Both empathy and compassion begin as inside jobs, empathy being our feeling of what someone else is feeling, and compassion being the action we take in response to those feelings. […]
October 5, 2025: Many of us were taught to be cautious of strangers. As we go about our day, we usually interact with family, friends and coworkers. These relationships can help us feel cared for and connected. […]
September 28, 2025: Erik Walker Wikstrum writes, “Common wisdom holds that people come to church for a sense of belonging, and that getting involved with a committee or task force is a great way to meet people and feel more connected.” […]
September 14, 2025: Picking up on the themes of the previous Sunday’s service, we ask more deeply why it matters that UUCM is here, why being part of such a community matters now in particular […]
June 9, 2024: It’s time to put together all the learning we’ve done about ourselves and start using it to dig into tough topics. […]
May 19, 2024: Our final Enneagram type, the Nine, the Peacemaker, is the part of us that is driven to seek inner and outer peace for ourselves and others. […]
May 5, 2024: Our year-long look into aspects of our personalities is meant, in part, to strengthen our ability to live the pluralism our tradition claims as important. […]
April 14, 2024: Sometimes the fun-loving, spontaneous, high-energy, upbeat, enthusiastic part of us is exactly these things. […]
March 3, 2024: The Four in us (Enneagram-speak again), the Individualist, is the deeply feeling part of us that sees our self as fundamentally different from others. […]
February 18, 2024: The Enneagram 2-ness in us (The Helper, the Altruist, The Lover) is the part of us that longs to be loved, and loved for exactly who we are. […]
January 28, 2024: The Three-ness in each of us (in Enneagram-speak) responds to our learned tendency to base our value on what we do or achieve or how we appear. […]
November 19, 2023: We each take in the world, process what we’ve experienced, and make decisions through a combination of instinct, feeling, and thinking, though […]
November 5, 2023: We enter the world absolutely dependent upon those fallible humans who are caring for us, and so when we are young, we cannot help but be afraid, at times, that we […]
October 22, 2023: In the midst of current and confounding “strong man” energies in national and world politics, we draw on Enneagram insights (Type 8) to consider […]
October 1, 2023: In this second service in Rev. Kevin’s Enneagram series, worship associate Sophia McKean and Rev. Kevin invite us to consider our personal paths toward emotional and spiritual wholeness […]
This is the first in a year-long series of services drawing on the Enneagram as a tool for our internal journey, our self-acceptance, and thus our well-being and our growth. […]