January 7, 2024: This service is a joyful and inclusive gathering that explores the power of love to liberate hearts and minds. It acknowledges the diverse beliefs, needs, and ways of seeing the world of its participants while emphasizing the common values of love, compassion, and justice. […]
December 24, 2023: We’ll gather on this special evening to share age-old songs and readings as we reflect on the message of Christmas for our times. We’ll conclude our time together with the annual ritual of passing the light from one to all as we sing together. […]
December 24, 2023: Join us for this engaging and hands-on retelling of the Christmas story where we’ll get a chance to take part in a spur-of-the-moment Christmas Pageant. Will you choose to be one of the three kings? A cow in the manger? Or just enjoy the proceedings and lend your voice to the songs? […]
December 17, 2023: Often, faith is not something we as Unitarian Universalists recognize as part of our religious experience. This Sunday, we’ll ask each other about our relationships to faith—times that we put our trust in the mysterious and unprovable—and explore what faith can feel and look like for us. […]
December 10, 2023: Our annual December meditation service once again takes the form of a singing meditation circle – singing into silence into singing into silence, in a deepening rhythm. Whether you choose to sing, or hum, or let the sound wash over you, come enter the mystery and magic of the moment. Take a breath before the holiday rush takes hold. […]
December 3, 2023: None of us is ever completely known by another person, and some aspects of our selves will remain a mystery, even to those who love us dearly. But the willingness to know each other meaningfully, and to be known meaningfully, is key to embodying Beloved Community together and to finding ourselves at home in the world. This Sunday, we settle into the mystery and we reach for a bit of the knowing, welcoming UUCM’s newest members in the process. […]
Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude for all that we have received. It is also a time to reflect on our own generosity. Who do we invite to our table of generosity? Who do we leave out? Do we keep our generosity within the bounds of our comfort zones, or are we courageous enough to expand into the realms of discomfort where true generosity lives? Join us as we explore this provocative idea. […]
November 19, 2023: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
We each take in the world, process what we’ve experienced, and make decisions through a combination of instinct, feeling, and thinking, though most of us over-rely on one of those three. The rub is that the one we rely on most is also where we are stuck and least free. And that means there is hope. […]
Put on your colorful clothes, we’re celebrating Diwali! This is the first day of the vibrant and joy-filled Hindu festival of lights. Diwali festivities include illumination of lights, candles, firecrackers, and diya (clay lamps) to symbolize the victory of good over evil, inner light over spiritual darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. What better day than this for an introduction to the rich spiritual world of Hinduism.
November 5, 2023: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
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 won’t have the support or guidance we need or be able to survive on our own. This sends some of us on a life-long search for security, and sends some us in what looks like the exact opposite direction. Come, consider your own (Enneagram) sixy self. […]
