June 16, 2024: Renewal happens as we mindfully ’step-in’ into each moment with each breath or we ‘step-away’ for new perspectives and experiences. Renewal is integral to the life of our beings, community, planet. We’ll explore the diverse range of opportunity to renew ourselves, our beliefs, and UU faith. […]
June 9, 2024: Dive deeper into this month’s “renewal’ theme, and maybe, just maybe, go home not with the “right” answer, but with a question that makes the difference. […]
June 2, 2024: UUCM Musicians, with Rev. Kevin Tarsa and Toby Thomas-Rose, Randy McKean, Worship Associate
Our annual music service – a gift from wonderful UUCM music makers and friends – always embodies this month’s theme of renewal. Come, let the music, including your own singing, meet you where you are and carry you where you need to go. […]
May 26, 2024: There is a tradition of sorts in many Unitarian Universalist congregations – a Question Box service or sermon in which people submit written questions for the minister to answer in the moment. On this final “pluralism” focused Sunday, come, with your questions about, well, about pretty much anything! That’s the fun. Rev. Kevin will answer as many questions as time and his abilities allow, and he won’t hesitate to seek help in answering. Very likely, the questions will be as interesting and revealing as any answers. […]
May 19, 2024: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel! Our final Enneagram type, the Nine, the Peacemaker, is the part of us that is driven to seek inner and outer peace for ourselves and others. This is also the part of us that embodies the fundamental challenge of all spiritual or inner work – being awake rather than asleep to our true nature. Whew. Sounds exhausting. At least to a Nine. Maybe I’ll sleep just a little bit longer. […]
May 12, 2024: “You bring an aster, I’ll bring a rose” — here’s an invitation to bring a flower to celebrate our annual tradition of the Flower Ceramony! On the anniversary of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s founding, we’ll celebrate our pluralist tradition’s roots in a vision of a community that honors each of us, as varied as all the flowers of spring. We’ll reflect, too, on the anti-war principles seeded into both the history of the Flower Ceramony in our tradition and the founding of Mother’s Day. […]
May 5, 2024: Also available as a podcast on our YouTube channel!
Our year-long look into aspects of our personalities is meant, in part, to strengthen our ability to live the pluralism our tradition claims as important. We begin this month’s pluralism theme with a dive into Fiveness. The head-centered “Investigator” is the part of us that wants to find out why things are the way they are and to understand how the world works – always searching, asking questions, and testing truth for ourselves. Sounds like many a Unitarian Universalist. […]
April 28, 2024: Core Values exercises can help individuals focus their life energies and attention in ways that align with what truly matters most to them. So too with groups of people, with the added and significant step of figuring out which values are genuinely shared. This Sunday we kick off our final preparation for an Association-wide attempt to spell out anew our “corps” shared values for ourselves and the world. No small thing in an individualist culture and nation. […]
April 21, 2024: On the day before Earth Day, we’ll contemplate our little planet and our interdependence with it. As Gary Snyder wrote, “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” With reverence for the great web of life and with humility, we acknowledge our place in it. […]
April 14, 2024:
Also availabe as a podcast on our YouTube Channel!
Sometimes the fun-loving, spontaneous, high-energy, upbeat, enthusiastic part of us is exactly these things. And sometimes these are ways to cope, ways to avoid feeling a deep pain beneath the surface. It is no accident that the Laugh Factory in Hollywood has a Psychologist-in-Residence for its comedians. This Sunday, we look into the Enneagram 7 – the Enthusiast – in all of us. […]
