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 […]
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 […]
