November 9, 2025: Also available as a podcast! 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 in the life of the nation. We like to say […]
November 2, 2025: As the nights lengthen and the days become noticeably shorter (and we set our clocks back an hour!), we find ourselves, yet again, in the time between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. Known by names such as […]
October 26, 2025: (Also available as a Podcast!) Thich Nhat Hanh stated: “To look deeply into the suffering of those who have caused us to suffer is a miraculous gift.” Gift? […]
October 19, 2025: Compassion says, “I am with you in your pain and I will help.” It may be easy to say for someone we view as similar, but less easy when someone looks different from the outside. […]
October 12, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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. This Sunday, we cultivate […]
October 5, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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. But what if […]
September 28, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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.” But what if […]
September 21, 2025: Our ‘sense of place’ is foundational to our well- being for a place can protect, inspire, comfort and ground us. Perhaps it is where we were born or a site in nature? Perhaps our UUCM sanctuary? Our sense of place lives in our hearts and bodies. […]
September 14, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) 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 […]
September 7, 2025: We enter this month’s theme of “Building Belonging” by recognizing the powerful significance of belonging, especially in the midst of so much public “othering.” Come, whoever you are. Come, build a place of welcome, of hope, of compassion as well as power. […]
