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 […]
We Get There Side by SideUnitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains October 3, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa, with Worship Associate, Jeff Stone We introduce and enter our October theme of “cultivating relationship,” with story, song, reflection and invitation. How in the world do we cultivate relationship now? Greeting Rev. Kevin Tarsa Song for Gathering Enter, Rejoice and […]
Imagine My SurpriseUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsSeptember 26, 2021Gail Johnson Vaughan and Cheryl Morris, Worship Associates Nineteen months into the restrictions of the pandemic has been like climbing to the top of a high mountain – a climb most of us would have thought impossible. Now here, we can see unexpected possibilities in every […]
There is often a significant gap between what we expect or wish for, and what actually exists. And, wow, the past two years have given us abundant opportunity to experience that! Wisdom traditions guide us away from using all our energy to lament and rail against the gap, and toward finding greater peacefulness by learning […]
Return Again: Water, Community, Spirit, YouUnitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains, Grass Valley, CASeptember 12, 2021with Rev. Kevin TarsaCheryl Morris and Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associates This Sunday we launch into the September theme of “embracing possibility.” While the need to alter our face-to-face plans might seem counter to such a theme, Rev. Kevin had […]
How can we make sense of the extreme divide over racial justice in our country? In this service our own Gail Johnson Vaughan gives us two keys to unlock the mystery and some suggestions for actions we can all take to remedy the fallout from the origins of our discontent. Greeting Gail Johnson Vaughan Song […]
Making Powerful TroubleUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsAugust 15, 2021Rev. Leela Sinha with Chuck Champlin, Worship Associate Making Powerful Trouble: we’re accustomed to the idea that resistance has to come from below, from outside, from the Other. But when we are the holders of power, how shall we resist then? Rev. Leela Sinha is a […]
What Does it Mean to Be Connected?Unitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsAugust 8, 2021Rev. Karyn Packard However, and whenever we look at moving ahead from our COVID isolation, what is required to effectively reconnect: spiritually, physically and as a dynamic community? In our summer series of “Voices Near and Far,” Beth Karow fills in for […]
Right SpeechUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsAugust 1, 2021Rev. Meg Barnhouse and Beth Karow, Worship Associate Actions may speak louder than words, but if we don’t tend to the words we speak and how we speak, them we can do great harm. This Sunday Rev. Meg Barnhouse, the wise and musical senior minister of the […]
