March Forth—Hospitality and the Art of Welcoming Minister: Rev. Mary Foran Worship Associate: David Dodd Ten years ago four families decided to take a risk together and began meeting as Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma. Other families liked the experience so much that now we are over 70 adults and 30 children and teens. And we [...]
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Home Lands Guest Ministers: Revs. Margaret and Fred Keip Worship Associate: Diana Spaulding We’ll hear from America’s earliest settlers on this Thanksgiving weekend — from the pilgrims (our religious ancestors) who landed at Cape Cod in 1620, seeking a homeland, and from the ‘first people’ whose homeland this was — and we’ll wrap both narratives [...]
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Promises of Abundance Minister: Mary Foran Worship Leader: Berkley Sturgeon The Sunday before Thanksgiving brings us Stone Soup, Guest at Your Table and Welcoming New Members. What do these three have in common? Some say there is magic involved. Others say leaps of faith. It also has something to do with who do we mean [...]
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Gratitude, Schmatitude Worship Leader: Joyce Tischler Grateful? Are you kidding me? The American dream is over, the 1% is in total control; we’re stuck with two wars, a broken economy, rampant foreclosures, reality t.v., fundamentalism in politics, a terminally constipated Congress… So, what do I have to be grateful about? No, I don’t mean some [...]
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Living Your Sacred: Cultivating Personality Through Sufi Practices Speaker: Perry Pike Worship Leaders: Rabia Hunter & Jodi Boyle There are many ways to pray. During this service the use of movement, sound and repetition will be explored and experienced as means of opening to, deepening into, and cultivating one’s inner life. These practices stem from [...]
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