Benevolence
Guest Minister: Rev. Leland Bond-Upson
Worship Associate: Joyce Tischler
Spring has come and our congregation begins once again its task of self-support. This is absolutely essential work for any religious community, for without a healthy structure, our spiritual mission cannot succeed. Fortunately, giving is pleasurable, allowing us to feel right with the world, bringing us into loving [...]
Talents in Time: We Create Together
Worship Leader and speaker, Elisabeth Hathaway
Do you ever ask yourself just how you are really doing? How you would appraise your experience, not according to some external measure like income or possesions, but according to your sense of whether you foster an openness to the forces that create and uphold [...]
The Three-Pound Universe
Worship Leader: David Dodd
Guest Minister: Rev. Chris Schriner
“To understand ourselves, we must understand our brains.” So claims today’s guest speaker. Fortunately, no one needs a Ph.D. to appreciate the contributions of modern neuroscience. By learning a few simple principles we can gain crucial insights into the reasons we feel and [...]
A Service on Love
Worship Associate: Berkley Sturgeon
Bring your favorite poems, love songs and stories. We will discuss Love; what it means to us and the role it plays in our lives.
Teach us to love unselfishly and to find great joy in giving. Help us to care for those we know and those we do not [...]
Listening to the Heart of UUP
Worship associates: Diana Spaulding and Ellen BeelerWhat do we discover when we listen deeply to each other? Our Listening Campaign is revealing the hopes and dreams at the heart of UUP. A story of longing, creativity, and trust is emerging and will evolve further during the service. The roots [...]
“Healing Circles”
Worship Leaders: Jan Ogren, Dean Watson & Jodi Boyle
Young and old will gather together for a time of gratitude and healing. Jan Ogren and Dean Watson, who apprenticed with a Mescalero Apache Medicine Man, will guide the community in setting up a medicine circle and lead us in four healing meditations: Gratitude, Healing [...]
“Generalities”
Russ Menks: Guest Ministerial Student
Worship Leader: Elisabeth Hathaway
Generalities guide our lives, helping us move through a complicated world: It’s cheaper to replace it than fix it. Don’t mix plaids and stripes. Thai food is spicy. But, generalities can be hurtful or misleading: Those people sure know how to sing. Republicans are all conservative. Blonde jokes. [...]
“Imagining a World with Peace, Liberty and Justice for All”
Worship Associate: Joyce Tischler
This is an interactive/participation service.
Our Sixth UU Principle is arguably the most challenging and idealistic one: the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. What do we mean when we say that we believe in this Principle? Is it [...]
The Kingdom of God, True Self and Buddha Nature
Speaker:Daniel Potter
Worship Associates: Ellen Beeler and Stacey Meinzen
There is a closeness of purpose in both Christian and Buddhist traditions that is most easily defined by these words of Jesus according to the apostle Mathew: “The Kingdom of God is within”. In Hinduism this is called the Atman [...]
Living a Deliberate Life
Worship Associate: Berkley Sturgeon
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.
It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.
It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.
Today is the seed time, now are the hours [...]