December 27: “Antidotes to Cultural Numbness“
Guest speaker: Meredith Guest
Worship Associate: David Dodd
Walter Brueggemann, a liberal Christian theologian said, “Compassion is not a personal emotion but an act against the numbness of society.” Let’s consider this quality of numbness that is emblematic of modern society and explore two very specific – and unexpected [...]

“Christmas Eve Celebration”
Worship Associate: Diana Spaulding

Click here to hear UUP’s choir “Larking About” singing Christmas carols.

Please join us for our second annual UUP Christmas Eve service, as we celebrate the season with special music, carol singing, and fellowship. Our Children’s Choir, led by Elizabeth Nielsen, and Larking About, the adult choir, will [...]

“Drum Back the Dawn: A Winter Solstice Drum Circle”
Worship Leaders: Tony Blake and Jodi Boyle
The days have been short, the nights very long.
Come let us gather and drum back the dawn.
Drum back the light with our beat and our song.
Bring any noise-makers and play along.
Light is returnng, hope is reborn.
Santa Lucia in lights is adorned.
Old [...]

Sunday, December 13: Into Darkness
Worship Leader Elisabeth Hathaway
As we near the winter solstice we all face the prospect of entering into a place of darkness, the longest night, the darkest hour. Symbolically this is the belly of the whale, a narrow gate, a place of great unknown and unknowing, wihc can be terrifying and lonely, [...]

Surviving and Transforming the Holiday Grinch
Guest Minister: Rev. Lisa Wiggins
Worship Associates: Joyce Tischler and Ellen Beeler
“Although we each have a heart for others, we don’t want to approach the holidays with a Grinch heart, two sizes too small. We’ll explore the secret to enlarging our hearts to receive the full spiritual meaning of this [...]