What Circle? – Toxic polarization, cloudy conflicts, and the need to change our ideas about changeUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsFebruary 20, 2022Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Grace Kendrick, Worship Associate Impossible. Frightening. Dangerous. That’s how it feels. In The Way Out, Peter T. Coleman takes head on the pressing question, “What can we do to […]
As Grace, Jeff, and Rev. Kevin explored the theme of “widening the circle,” they kept being drawn back to the awareness that expanding the edges of our circle outward is most possible, perhaps only possible, when we stay rooted in or connected to the center. Or is it that expanding the edges of our circle ultimately leads us into our center?
Come, celebrate our connection to Unitarian Universalists far beyond UUCM in this embodied, engaging, multi-gen on-line worship service focusing on a parable of interdependence and unity. We joined congregations all over the western third of the United States, plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Until the current COVID surge, a consultant was scheduled to engage members of the congregation this weekend as part of figuring out next steps regarding UUCM’s facilities. Though that weekend was postponed, we still focus on the promises at the heart of creating community such as this, and at the heart of finding our way forward as a community.
All month long we’ve been inviting you to consider your word for the new year – a word to travel with, to put under your pillow, to eat breakfast with, to dance, wrestle, and cavort with. A word to keep near your heart all year long. This Sunday, we ask you to choose and share your word as part of your own effort to live with intention.
Living With Intention: We Have a DreamUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJanuary 16, 2022Gail Johnson Vaughan and Cheryl Morris, co-worship associates, with Special Guest Tracy Pepper, Color Me Human executive director Inequality and injustice hurts us all. Martin Luther King Jr had a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and […]
Opening to Joy: Letting Go to PeaceUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsDecember 12, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Rev. Karyn Packard and Jeff Stone, Worship Associate Even in these more cautious times, the pace and energy of the holiday season picks up, with challenges, joys, and sadness all amplified. In this annual service inviting embodied peacefulness, […]
Opening to Joy: Odes to HopeUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsDecember 5, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa and Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate This service introduces the December theme: Opening to Joy. Let’s face it, we are dealing with a lot of impediments to joy – an ongoing pandemic, steady escalation of extremism in our country with […]
Holding History: GratitudeUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsNovember 28, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Jeff Stone and Cheryl Morris, Worship Associates A number of us have engaged in the spiritual practice of listing gratitudes – taking time to notice and write down a brief list of those things for which we are grateful, or for which […]
Holding History: Meaning 3.0Unitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsNovember 21, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Chuck Champlin, Worship Associate Jamie Wheal claims that the world has entered a third stage in the human effort to make meaning: beyond the first, religious stage which linked meaning to salvation and exclusion, beyond the second stage, modern liberalism, which […]
