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 [...]

Delivered at UUP by Elizabeth Nielsen on May 3, 2009
Good Morning! It’s Time to Spring Forward! Today is a day of our spiritual vision path intersecting with our practical needs. Over the past few months I’ve had quite a bit of time to think about how to integrate my spiritual thoughts with my practical concerns [...]

Delivered at UUP by Meredith Guest on December 28, 2008
“Imagine a story that moves the heavens to wax rhapsodic and you, like a love drunk fool to join in and mean every word of it…”
Some of this material is based upon the book The First Christmas by Marcus J. Borg and John D. Crossan
What I [...]

Delivered at UUP by Tony Blake on July 8, 2007
“I believe that there is a spiritual interdependence among the various religions in the same way as there is a metaphysical interconnectedness to all reality.”
My message today is really about two things. Spiritual Independence and Spiritual Interdependence, and there is a story behind how I came [...]

Delivered at UUP by Meredith Guest on June 10, 2007
“Never, ever in my wildest dreams did I imagine such a thing would happen.”

Shortly after we purchased our home when there was still money for such things we were roofing an outbuilding that prior to our arrival had been used over the years for a [...]

“Slowing Down”
Matt Alspaugh
Consulting Minister
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown
 

Reading:

Eknath Easwaran Words to Live By, p. 117:

Today’s mania for speed strikes right at the root of our capacity for an even mind. How often do we find ourselves locked into behavior and situations that force us to hurry, hurry, hurry! By now, most of us are aware [...]

June 18, 2006
“This I believe: I believe that the staff work of the Divine is redemption.”
Delivered by Meredith Guest on June 18, 2006
When I agreed to do a This I Believe sermon, T was kind enough to inform me via e-mail that the next scheduled one was on Father’s Day. She suggested that my speaking [...]