Put on your colorful clothes, we’re celebrating Diwali! This is the first day of the vibrant and joy-filled Hindu festival of lights. Diwali festivities include illumination of lights, candles, firecrackers, and diya (clay lamps) to symbolize the victory of good over evil, inner light over spiritual darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. What better day than this for an introduction to the rich spiritual world of Hinduism.
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We enter the world absolutely dependent upon those fallible humans who are caring for us, and so when we are young, we cannot help but be afraid, at times, that we won’t have the support or guidance we need or be able to survive on our own. This sends some of us on a life-long search for security, and sends some us in what looks like the exact opposite direction. Come, consider your own (Enneagram) sixy self. […]
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 working on our relationships with those who have gone before us.
In a service steeped in ritual and music, we will remember with honesty, gratitude, and hope.
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In the midst of current and confounding “strong man” energies in national and world politics, we draw on Enneagram insights (Type 8) to consider the ways that strength, power, and control sometimes arise in each of us as ideals to protect ourselves from feeling vulnerable, uncertain, powerless. […]
Humanism – a “religious” perspective here grounded in the natural rather than the supernatural – finds a unique home in Unitarian Universalism, born of our tradition’s and our ancestors’ long-time commitment to religious freedom, to the use of reason, and to expansive tolerance. No matter your theological stance, consider yourself in good company. […]
In our annual service paying tribute to the Nisenan, on whose ancestral homelands we live and worship, we follow the tribal members’ ongoing journey toward recognition and stabilizing their people, and we attend to the layered legacies we inherit. Tribal spokesperson Shelly Covert will join us once again, speaking from her growing knowledge and evolving insight. […]
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In this second service in Rev. Kevin’s Enneagram series, worship associate Sophia McKean and Rev. Kevin invite us to consider our personal paths toward emotional and spiritual wholeness, paths of growth that invite our self-acceptance, above of all, paths that lead us home. […]
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This is the first in a year-long series of services drawing on the Enneagram as a tool for our internal journey, our self-acceptance, and thus our well-being and our growth. […]
As an institution like UUCM, we can offer an invitation: “Join us!” with a coda “and share in what we do here;” we can offer inclusivity: “Come!” with a coda “help us be diverse;” or we can offer radical welcome: “Bring your whole self, your voice, your culture, your ideas” with a coda “we are ready and willing to enter a truly mutual relationship, to change and be changed by you.” […]
This year’s Water Communion service not only invites us to celebrate the importance of true community, every more vital in these times, it will also invite members to claim, truly, their deep ownership of UUCM and its continual creation. As one larger framing offers, it’s in part a conscious move from being consumers to being citizens. […]
