Past Services

February 1, 2026: We welcome back guest Daryl Grigsby, local author, community activist, and board member of Color Me Human and Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, […]

January 25, 2026: “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 […]

January 18, 2026: 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. […]

January 11, 2026: (Also available as a podcast!) 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 […]

January 4, 2026: (Also available as a podcast!) 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, […]

December 21, 2025: Just hours after the solstice, on this first morning of winter, we pause in our busy-ness to notice and know that there is always a light. […]

December 14, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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.’ . . . In other words, hope doesn’t just promise […]

December 7, 2025: It’s been hard lately, hard to hold on to hope, hard to imagine world peace.  Utah Phillips knew how to imagine and create a better world. In this month of “choosing hope,” and in these “hard times,” we celebrate the passion, vision and compassion of Utah Phillips, a founding member of UUCM, organizer […]

November 30, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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 […]

November 16, 2025: In this recipe exchange of sorts, we’ll share with each other some of the gratitude tools, techniques, tips, insights – gratitude recipes – we’ve garnered over our years. What’s your […]