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Posted by admin December 25th, 2011
Blessings of the Day Minister: Rev. Mary Foran Worship Leader: Berkley Sturgeon Yes, we will worship together on Christmas Day. Come ready to share your heart’s joy and longing or be inspired to share in the moment. Join in singing and prayer as we celebrate our steadfast human hopes for peace, love, and justice in [...]
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Posted by admin December 24th, 2011
Holy Night Minister: Rev. Mary Foran Worship Leader: Joyce Tischler On this night, mindful of the baby, born in a manger, who grew up to be a teacher of profound religious truths, we will celebrate the possibilities of love every child brings into the world. We’ll sing carols and share prayers, welcome our children’s songs [...]
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Posted by admin December 18th, 2011
Dance Church Our inaugural monthly (third Sunday) dance- and movement-centered service, featuring a clear and open wood floor, music, and mostly free-form dance, for those who seek to find the spirit in dance, and want to experience that in community with others. We’ll begin with some warm-ups, a basic ritual dance, and then just play [...]
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Posted by admin December 18th, 2011
Solstice Drum Circle & Santa Lucia Musician: Tony Blake Worship Leaders: Tony Blake and Stacey Meinzen Come join us for UUP’s annual observance of the Winter Solstice facilitated by Tony Blake, UUP’s village drummer, in a service designed to celebrate the ancient roots of the turning of the season. Bring your percussion instruments for a [...]
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Posted by admin December 11th, 2011
Candle in the Dark Worship Leaders: Rabia Hunter & David Dodd For the past several years, UUP has honored and embraced the darkest time in the year in the service preceding our Solstice Drum Circle, in which we welcome the return of the light. What do we fear from the dark? What are the gifts [...]
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Posted by admin December 11th, 2011
Monthly Meditative Circle Join UUP meditators and Worship Leader Elisabeth Hathaway in a 45 minute service of simple ritual, chanting and readings, with a 25 minute non-guided meditation. Sitting together, we center ourselves, sitting together we center our world. UUP’s Monthly Meditative Services are the second Sunday of each month, 9:30 to 10:15. They are [...]
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Posted by admin December 4th, 2011
Bringing Our Truths Together Speakers: Tom Zolot & Jason George Worship Leaders: Amy West & Bailey Boatsman Universalism affirms the validity of personal experience and personal truth in our faith. We believe that it is finding and bringing together these personal truths that makes a true community, and that each of us is empowered with [...]
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Posted by admin November 27th, 2011
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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Posted by admin November 20th, 2011
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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Posted by admin November 13th, 2011
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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