Today we celebrate the beginning of our journey with Rev. Dara, our new minister! We’ll explore this question: what can it mean to live “wholehearted” even in challenging times?All are welcome for this service of inquiry and hope. Please join us for a post-service “Meet & Greet” with Rev. Dara at 11:30a Rev. Dara Olandt, Minister with Jennifer … Continue reading A Wholehearted Journey
UUP services return! Join us for a live Zoom service, in which we will share with each other our hopes for this year. The beginning of August is Lammas or Lughnasadh on the pagan Wheel of the Year, a time for the first wheat harvest or, here in California, a time when gardens and trees … Continue reading What Will We Harvest?
Our Wisdom Stories Speakers: Bill Heavlin and Laura Mandaro This worship service explores the origin stories behind Unitarian Universalist principles 3, 4, and 5, which speak to how members of congregations should relate to one another. Their histories describe the collective spiritual journey of early Unitarian Universalism, and remain relevant today.
Speaker: Rev. Marcus HartliefThis will be the third in our series of “virtual visits” to services offered by neighboring congregations over the course of the month of July, whose theme is “Community.” We hope you will attend and enjoy hearing from our sibling congregations! Zoom link: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/444532079
This month’s service theme (at Lake County UU) is harmony, which may seem like an odd topic for our necessarily turbulent times. Reverend Millie Phillips, will speak on “Harmony and Discord, the Music of Our Lives,” touching on how the musical concepts of harmony apply to a society in need of new approaches to old problems. … Continue reading Harmony and Discord: Lake County UU Visit
We’ll be taking a fun new approach to worship in July, sharing services with other North Bay UU congregations. Our first will be a “watch party” for the July 5 UU Congregation of Santa Rosa service. We’ll gather as usual via Zoom at 10:20, then watch a shared screen viewing of the Santa Rosa service … Continue reading The Gifts of Grief. (“Watch Party” with Santa Rosa UU)
Join the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. The worship service will include a collection for the Tomaquag Museum, an indigenous museum featuring an extensive collection and archive of Southern New England tribal communities. Members of the public are welcome. Rev. Joan Javier-Duval Rev. Joan Javier-Duval is worship leader and will deliver the sermon at the 2020 General Assembly … Continue reading General Assembly Sunday Morning Worship
Protests about institutionalized racism this summer have been compared to those of 1968. Dr. Buehrens heard his call to ministry then. As an historian, he would also compare them to the polarization in America over race going back to the 1850s, when both Unitarian minister Theodore Parker and Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass were calling for … Continue reading Conflagration: The Prospect of a Second American Civil War
In a society which so often focus on the need for more, for better, for the push to be extraordinary and to have and to experience extraordinary things, perhaps the path toward compassion for ourselves and others might be found in focusing instead on what is enough. We will send out the link to the viewing … Continue reading enough.
Our Soul Matters worship theme of the month is compassion. Being a people of compassion means moving from empathy (feeling) to action. What might this look like close to home? Please join us for this online service. We will send out the link to the viewing gathering in our newsletter. (Sign up for our newsletter, … Continue reading Compassion Practice: Looking with Love
