October 22, 2023: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
In the midst of current and confounding “strong man” energies in national and world politics, we draw on Enneagram insights (Type 8) to consider the ways that strength, power, and control sometimes arise in each of us as ideals to protect ourselves from feeling vulnerable, uncertain, powerless. […]
Humanism – a “religious” perspective here grounded in the natural rather than the supernatural – finds a unique home in Unitarian Universalism, born of our tradition’s and our ancestors’ long-time commitment to religious freedom, to the use of reason, and to expansive tolerance. No matter your theological stance, consider yourself in good company. […]
In our annual service paying tribute to the Nisenan, on whose ancestral homelands we live and worship, we follow the tribal members’ ongoing journey toward recognition and stabilizing their people, and we attend to the layered legacies we inherit. Tribal spokesperson Shelly Covert will join us once again, speaking from her growing knowledge and evolving insight. […]
October 1, 2023: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
In this second service in Rev. Kevin’s Enneagram series, worship associate Sophia McKean and Rev. Kevin invite us to consider our personal paths toward emotional and spiritual wholeness, paths of growth that invite our self-acceptance, above of all, paths that lead us home. […]
September 24, 2023: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
This is the first in a year-long series of services drawing on the Enneagram as a tool for our internal journey, our self-acceptance, and thus our well-being and our growth. […]
As an institution like UUCM, we can offer an invitation: “Join us!” with a coda “and share in what we do here;” we can offer inclusivity: “Come!” with a coda “help us be diverse;” or we can offer radical welcome: “Bring your whole self, your voice, your culture, your ideas” with a coda “we are ready and willing to enter a truly mutual relationship, to change and be changed by you.” […]
This year’s Water Communion service not only invites us to celebrate the importance of true community, every more vital in these times, it will also invite members to claim, truly, their deep ownership of UUCM and its continual creation. As one larger framing offers, it’s in part a conscious move from being consumers to being citizens. […]
After a summer exploring our shared values, we draw the ends of all the summer service threads – and so draw ourselves – together, looking once again for the glue that binds us and what we care about. […]
We UUs claim that we embrace our differences as well as our commonalities with love, curiosity, and respect. If only! To be fair, we do try, and more to the point, we aspire to such an embrace. Maybe that embrace is not as out of reach as it seems. […]
As a group of UUCM members and friends spend this weekend camping and connecting in the Sierra Buttes, we figured we’d join their campout in spirit and ritual by having a “camp-in” at UUCM! […]
