Holding It Together

After a summer exploring our shared values, we draw the ends of all the summer service threads – and so draw ourselves – together, looking once again for the glue that binds us and what we care about. […]

Mirrors and Windows

We UUs claim that we embrace our differences as well as our commonalities with love, curiosity, and respect.  If only! To be fair, we do try, and more to the point, we aspire to such an embrace. Maybe that embrace is not as out of reach as it seems.  […]

The Camp-In

As a group of UUCM members and friends spend this weekend camping and connecting in the Sierra Buttes, we figured we’d join their campout in spirit and ritual by having a “camp-in” at UUCM! […]

Love in Public: Not either / or

“Politics and religion don’t mix,” so the warning goes, though in fact they are very much bound up with one another. […]

Fences & Defenses

We UU’s declare that every person has the right to flourish with inherent dignity and worthiness. It’s just that […]

Never Complete, Never Perfect

Openness to change is fundamental to our Unitarian and Universalist heritages, never complete and never perfect.  In what ways are we seeking to grow as individuals and as a community?  How can we transform our ideals into action, for the benefit of all? […]

Ever Willing: Becoming the people our world needs

The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world.  Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively?  The 2023 “GA” Sunday service explores these themes to celebrate the best of who we UUs are. […]

Love is the Power

At the center of the values that are proposed as the anchors of Unitarian Universalism is Love. Love is the power that holds us together and through the spiritual discipline of Love, we hold one another accountable in doing the work of living our shared values. Come explore what this means in our daily living, and in how we are together and in the world. […]

Freedom, Reason, Hope, and Courage

As Unitarian Universalists, we are rooted in heritages of freedom, reason, hope, and courage. This July 4 weekend, when we need each of those heritages more than ever, we launch our summer series focused on Love in Action with Rev. Kevin’s current take on what it means to be Unitarian Universalist, as viewed through the lenses of his recent renewal leave inner journey. […]