Worship Service, Feb. 15, 10:00am In Person and Online Multigenerational Service Monthly Theme for February: Embodying Resilience 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 … Continue reading Worship Service, Feb. 15
Since the 1990s EMDR, the use of bilateral stimulation while re-experiencing a trauma, has been a proven way to process trauma and find healing. Traumatic experiences didn’t just start happening in the 1990s. It’s been around for all of human history. How have people healed from trauma before psychotherapeutic techniques, and even now when those … Continue reading “When Music Is EMDR and the Revolution Isn’t Caught on a Smart Phone”
For a year, pundits and ordinary folks alike have been debating how close we are in the United States to falling into fascism. These past few weeks make it much harder to deny that we’re already there. This Sunday, we’ll honor those who’ve shown up, embodying resilience while practicing resistance, including those who’ve had their … Continue reading “Seeds Buried in Fertile Ground”
SPECIAL NOTE: ONLINE ONLY SERVICE Worship Service, Jan. 25, 10:00am Guest in the Pulpit: Dr. Ricardo O. Sanchez This Sunday we welcome fellow UU, Dr. Ricardo O. Sanchez, for a service inspired by his book Before and After the Border: One Man’s Journey Home. Note: you can purchase the book using this link. Bio Dr. … Continue reading A Passport to Humanity
Never in history has humanity lived in as interdependent a world as today. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about this in his 1964 essay The World House. Join us as we explore together how to make The World House we all share into a diverse multicultural Beloved Community where all thrive. For … Continue reading Making the World House a Longhouse
The problem of greed is perennial. So is how it corrodes both soul and society. The resistance to gross inequality is also perennial. So is how that resistance steeps us in Beloved Community and transforms the world with liberating love. Join us this Sunday as we explore what is truly of ultimate value and how … Continue reading “The Hidden Jewel”
Are you more like Elphaba? Or more like Glinda? Or a better question might be: When are you more like Elphaba and when are you more like Glinda? Join us for a multigenerational service exploring the wisdom the musical/movie Wicked has to offer us about this month’s theme: Practicing Resistance. NOTE: Come early if you … Continue reading “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished When You’re Defying Gravity”
The Golden Age of ancient Rome was the origin of many of our Yuletide traditions. Today, we experience the craziness of that time. Question to Ponder: “What is your favorite Yuletide holiday custom?” Monthly Theme for December: Choosing Hope The Nursery will be available during service for infants to preschool-aged children. View / download the Order of … Continue reading “lo Saturnalia!”
The work of Christmas is to give birth to love in the world. This means honoring the sacredness of everyone. This means welcoming others into radically inclusive Beloved Community. This means making sure everyone’s basic needs are provided for – food, shelter, clothing, healthcare – so that every person can flourish with dignity, love, and … Continue reading The Work of Christmas
We’re not the first to find ourselves in the dark night, the oppression of tyrants, the desert journey, the making of new ways of being together. We have the wisdom, inspiration, and gifts of many ancestors in the struggle to guide us. Join us this Sunday as we look to the past for how to … Continue reading Choosing Hope, Again and Again
We choose hope when we look at reality for what it is while imagining what it could be. Sometimes we confuse hope with optimism but reality might be bleak or brimming with options. Choosing hope means working for the possible … whether it seems possible or not. For Reflection: “When the world feels heavy what … Continue reading Hope in Blue and Green
A Multigenerational Christmas Pageant This year’s pageant will be an interactive adaptation of Unitarian Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, featuring figures from Unitarian Universalist history. Join us this Sunday for a fun, meaningful, and truly UUnique look at the deeper meaning of Christmas. For Reflection: “What small things give you hope right now?” Monthly Theme … Continue reading Accotink’s “A Christmas Carol” Christmas Pageant
