Close to Home, Close to Heart: Learning from these 16 MonthsUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJuly 25, 2021Reflections from Susan Merrill, Ruth Ghio, Jim Bair, and Julia Park Tracey, with Chuck Champlin These sixteen months spent in our homes and navigating the pandemic have shed light into many corners, helped us look at ourselves in […]
E Unum PluribusUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJuly 18, 2021Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, Long Island, NY The Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson speaks to UUCM as part of our “Voices Near and Far” summer series. We are grateful and fortunate to receive the gifts of her presence and wisdom. […]
Beloved Community in the Park: A Lamp in Every CornerUnitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJuly 11, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa and UUCM with Wendy Wernigg, Worship Associate With musicians Kathyrn Young, Taylor Carey, Tom Wernigg, Frank Lawrence, and Steve Wiley A Lamp in Every CornerRev. Kevin Tarsa A reflection delivered July 11, 2021 to theUnitarian Universalist […]
Two Wolves and a Lamb: Democracy this July 4Unitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJuly 4, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” The tensions in democracy are inherent and, ideally, managed, […]
Remembering Well Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered May 30, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains (Preceded by Remembering Well by Paul S. Sawyer.) For those of us who remain, it’s about remembering well. Who are you remembering today? I’ve been thinking about someone I never met. I’ve shared […]
A Community of Communities by Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered April 25, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains “There is no me without you. We shape one another. … we can only find ourselves through shared becoming.” ~ enfleshed ~ Food Forests Shared becoming. That’s the reality, if […]
Coming Together to Restore our Earth Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered April 18, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Out of Thin Air From our Earthbound vantage point, the enveloping sky and atmosphere above us seem endless, or at least immensely vast. From the space station that circles the […]
Watch for the service video. Soon! So the Dough Isn’t Ready Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains March 28, 2021 delivered via Zoom Rabbi Rachel Barenblat’s wonderful reading, “Ready” from her Velveteen Rabbit’s Haggadah for Pesach, preceded the sermon. OF KNEADING BOWLS I have my great grandmother’s kneading bowl. Well-used, slightly rough, […]
What will it take, now, and in this environment, to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit?” What can we discover as we mind the current gap, as we tend the open wound? And what sustaining possibilities can we imagine as we peer into it?
Who among us is not inspired by Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Had a Dream” speech? For many it guides our action and fills our imaginations of a world more just. But what if the dream is deferred or worse yet, denied? Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” stands with King’s dream as bookends to the […]
