Our informal Cider Sunday service has been a tradition since 2005. While enjoying fresh apple cider and holiday treats, we share reflections on the year that is ending and the one that is approaching. Through good times and bad we find strength, courage, and joy in gathering together. And, yes, hope. Please join us! Cheryl […]
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. This year, in the swirl of “resolutions” energy, we’ll be invited to enter the next 12 months with a question for the year, a question that meets your life where it is and asks […]
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. Together, we’ll dive into the complexities of “resistance,” framing resistance not as rebellion for its own sake, but as an expression of faithfulness to our shared values. Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Carol Nimick, Worship Associate
Resistance in social-political spheres is often rooted in trying to keep things as they are or getting things back to where they were, a kind of “restorative resistance” that ultimately bolsters the status quo. This Dr. Martin Luther King weekend, we’ll ask ourselves and our religious tradition what it might mean to dream of building new worlds, rather than merely reforming the old. Rev. Kevin with Marlene Bottenfield, […]
“Sitting here in limbo, But I know it won’t be long…” These words of Jimmy Cliff’s may be resonating with many of us as we navigate the liminal spaces in which we find ourselves—temporal, physical and societal, between the old and new year, between UUCM’s current and future home, and the shifting cultural and political […]
