“Birth and Death”
Wakoh explores a Zen Buddhist teaching on birth and death: its beauty and usefulness when caring for those born and dying and/or when facing one’s own mortality.
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Stories About Stories
This Sunday, as we invite you to join us in voicing your Joys and Concerns again, we are reminded of why it is so important to tell our own stories. As our Stories theme comes to an end, we are going to focus on why voicing our stories is so powerful and how our stories … Continue reading Stories About Stories
Staying in the Fight: Resisting the “anesthetizing security of stained glass windows”
In the coming months and years we will be called upon to stay committed to the work of resilience and resistance. How do we fight the temptation to look away? Can we engage in meaningful practices of solidarity with people whose lives look very different from our own?
“The Power of Stories in Times of Change: A Multigenerational Dialogue”
As we step into a new year, we’ll explore the transformative power of stories in times of uncertainty and transition, reflecting on how the stories we tell can help us navigate challenges with resilience and hope. This service will feature a multigenerational dialogue, where we explore how different generations process change and how storytelling connects … Continue reading “The Power of Stories in Times of Change: A Multigenerational Dialogue”
Choosing Our Stories
As we go running into the new year we ask: which of our stories will we use to find our way and which will we leave on the road?
Letters to Ourselves
As is the tradition at UU Petaluma, we will be gathering to reflect on the year just past and the one to come, and take time to write letters to ourselves to be delivered in a year. If you wrote a letter last year, you should be receiving it shortly before the service.
Follow the Light: All Ages Christmas Eve Service
Join us in wishing joy to the world on this holy night. We will sing songs, tell stories and be grateful for the traditions that hold us together and push us to go deeper.
In the Dark Night
In the “most wonderful time of the year,” it can be painful when everything isn’t exactly perfect. In a season of lights and joyful noise come join us as we take a moment to honor the dark and the quiet.
No-Rehearsal Church Pageant: 12 Days of Christmas
We gather to celebrate the joy of the holidays with an intergenerational, all-community pageant. Come, laugh, sing, and take part in an interactive retelling of a classic Christmas song to help get you in holiday spirit!
Bodhi Day
In Japanese schools of Buddhism, December 8 is Bodhi Day, when the Buddha’s enlightenment is celebrated. In honor of this occasion, the story of Siddhartha Gautama’s spiritual quest and awakening will be recounted. We will consider the relevance of his heroic journey for people today, as well as his prescription for finding freedom in the … Continue reading Bodhi Day