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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

El Dia de los Muertos–Day of the Dead Worship Associates: Stacey Meinzen and Joyce Tischler Come join us to remember those people in our lives who have passed into the Mystery.  Bring photos and mementos to put on the altar as well as stories you would like to share about these special people.