When anxiety and uncertainty make it hard to know what to do next, our values and vision can serve as a compass. This Sunday, we will reflect on what our shared values, commitments, and dreams have to offer in difficult and turbulent times. Guest in the Pulpit: Rev. Kirk Freeman Rev. Freeman (he/him) has been … Continue reading Return Again
Special Note: You’re Invited to Wear Tie-Dye this Sunday! This Sunday we invite you to seek through your closet for your brightest happiest clothes for this special Tie Dye Sunday Service! We look forward to seeing you in your tie-dye splendor for this start of summer service about Questing for Joy. Join Rev. Caitlin Cotter … Continue reading Joy Questing: A Tie Dye Sunday
These days, for different reasons, it feels like every American feels like a stranger in our own nation. How did we get here? And what does Dolly Parton have to teach us about how we got here and what we do to bridge the divide? Join us this Sunday for an exploration of how to … Continue reading Strangers In Our Own Land
What if the hero’s journey is a false narrative? What if the true story is one of communal wisdom passed down from generation to generation? Join us as we explore an alternative perspective for how to create a more livable future … together. For Reflection: “What do you always keep in your pockets, purse, or … Continue reading “A Carrier Bag Theory of Unitarian Universalism”
A Multigenerational Service Monthly Theme for May: Awakening Curiousity The Nursery will be available during service for infants to preschool-aged children. View / download the Order of Service here. Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in person, 10125 Lakehaven Ct., Burke, or online via Zoom. Stay after service for coffee … Continue reading Weaving New Ways
The birds, the trees, the mountains, the wind… the Earth gives freely to each of us; what will you give back? For Reflection: What special gift will you give to the Earth? Monthly Theme for April: Embracing Possibilities The Nursery will be available during service for infants to preschool-aged children. View / download the Order of Service … Continue reading “When the Forest Breathes Out, We Breathe In”
Music Sunday This Sunday, we’ll look at what the movie Princess Mononoke has to teach us about balancing the needs of humans and the needs of nature. We’ll explore the ways that the Earth and human beings practice resilience and endure through conflict and hardship. Featuring special music from AUUC members, including AUUC’s choir. For … Continue reading “The Enduring Spirit of the Forest”
In this service we’ll explore how the spread of Christianity through violent conquest and forced conversion changed the very nature of the faith. We’ll also explore how Christianity’s colonialist expansion within Europe set the stage for European colonial domination through the continuation of violent conquest and forced conversion. Finally, we’ll explore how to resist this … Continue reading “So We All Dressed Up as Wolves and We Looked Fire”
Multigenerational Worship Service In Person and Online Early Christians centered their faith in the resurrection of Jesus. The eucharist became a celebration of how life triumphed over death, a celebration of communal abundance and care. In keeping with the Passover meal it also celebrated liberation from the oppression of empire. This collective liberation, communal care … Continue reading “Paradise Is a Potluck, Y’all!”
This title is a quote from RuPaul that expresses a deep spiritual truth about human identity. Both parts of the statement are important. It matters who we are in our unadorned essence. It matters just as much what drag is placed upon that unadorned essence. Join us as we explore these two spiritual truths together. … Continue reading “We’re All Born Naked, and the Rest Is Drag”
Drawing on wisdom from ancient Jewish texts, a modern Zen master, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, and the zombie-apocalypse world of The Walking Dead, we look for the quiet, resilient hope already alive in us — and the faith and love that keep us working for a better future even when all seems lost. For Reflection: … Continue reading Faith, Hope, and Love … and Zombies
What would it look like to have a better way of promoting Unitarian Universalism? What might a UU Bumper Sticker say that would capture the essence, the Spirit of who we are? This is the question Scott Larson asked me to answer when he purchased this year’s Auction Sermon. (And Dean Wanderer purchased the complementary … Continue reading “Unitarian Universalism in the Key of Life”
