April 20, 2025: With this Easter Sunday and Earth Day in such close proximity, in this month that asks what joy has to do with anything and everything, we’ll let the first thousand years of Christian imagery – not portrayals of crucifixions, but instead lush scenes depicting this world as paradise […]
April 13, 2025: adrienne maree brown notes that “pleasure is a measure of freedom” and advocates “pleasure activism” not as an escape or spiritual bypass, but as a path toward personal and collective liberation. In a similar way, Shannon Willis encourages “disobedient joy” by which […]
April 6, 2025: Really, how do “they” expect us to feel our joy right now? Is it even okay to feel joy with what we are going through? Well, let’s look more deeply. Some say underneath everything Joy waits as a patient foundation of our being, sometimes covered with woe, […]
March 30, 2025: In a review, Marilynne Robinson claimed both that “It is trust that knits up the world,” and also that trust “is a stuff peculiarly liable to fraying and raveling.” This is the often tender nature of the world and our relationships. We end our month with an invitation to hold this truth with care, and to live accordingly. […]
March 23, 2025: We gather just after the Spring equinox, as the light begins to overturn the looming darkness. Trusting in this season of renewal, we’ll explore through ritual, words, and song what in us is called to emerge. […]
March 16, 2025: Why be, and be part of, a religious, values-centered community these days? And how? Steeped in vital questions about various freedoms and who makes decisions, our religious ancestors came up with their own answers through a series of cottage […]
March 9, 2025: The current frantic attempts to dismantle democracy are challenging many people’s sense of trust and hope in the future. Surprisingly, for some it’s not a lack of hope that is the issue, it’s the fear of holding hope, hope that might be dashed or disappointed, a fate […]
March 2, 2025: We begin this trust-themed month by exploring the origins of our personal sense of trust, and by inviting that personal sense of trust into conversation with the concept of faith. Allan Watts claimed that “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do […]
February 23, 2025: Finally, we turn our inclusion lens to consider what helps us – and, likely, others – know that we belong and that we are fully included right here in this community. If we are called to “live love through the practice of inclusion,” what now? […]
February 16, 2025: As we cultivate a deeper understanding of inclusion, we recognize that there are many ways to feel that we belong. In this tapestry service, we’ll hear reflections on the practice of inclusion from a few of us within our UUCM community. […]
