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 […]
Holding History: Rooted in the Rich Soil of our Theological HeritageUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsNovember 14, 2021Rev. Dr. Sheri Prud’homme with Beth Karow and Cheryl Morris, Worship Associates From where do we draw our religious authority? Part of the answer is from the theological heritage of Unitarian Universalism. Ours is an open and evolving […]
Holding History: Body, Mind, and SpiritUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsNovember 7, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Cheryl Morris, Worship Associate What does it mean to “hold our history” when history tells us so much more about how we see ourselves now than about what happened in the past? Or are those two things closer than […]
What Is Remembered, LivesUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsOctober 31, 2021Beth Karow, with Rev. Kevin Tarsa All Hallows Eve, Día de Muertos, All Souls, and All Saints days invite us each autumn to remember our ancestors and our beloveds who have died. These tender days on the way to winter even open a window to […]
Getting to Know One AnotherUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsOctober 24, 2021Chuck Champlin, Rev. Kevin Tarsa, and You! Our fourth in a series focused on cultivating relationship, this interactive, café style service offered people a chance to connect several times in small groups for conversation. Envisioned and planned by Wendy Wernigg and Chuck Champlin, Rev. […]
Me, Myself, and I: Cultivating a Relationship with OurselvesUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsOctober 17, 202 Dawn Bateman, Janet Bullock, Stu Matthews and Jordan Thomas-Rose, Rev. Kevin Tarsa,Jeff Stone, Worship Associate How does living through a pandemic influence our relationship with ourselves. And how does that work in the context of living in relationship or […]
In Respectful and Right Relationship: Beyond the WordsUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsOctober 10, 2021Shelly Covert, Spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, with Frank Lawrence, Rev. Kevin Tarsa, and Jeff Stone, Worship Associate UUCM members have chosen to include in UUCM’s budget a contribution to the Ancestral Homelands Reciprocity Program, a community generated […]
