Participation in being Beloved Community, embodying this ideal as a practice, can serve as a radically realized eschatology, a sustaining experience of heaven on earth, one that arises through our commitment to working for healing, wholeness, justice, and mutual flourishing for every person. Join us as we share in a vision of a world transformed! Join us … Continue reading “The Practice & Promise of Being Beloved Community”
On March 1st, 2020 on the Edmund Pettus Bridge at a commemoration of 1965’s Bloody Sunday and the March from Selma to Montgomery, representative John Lewis said “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.” Join us for this service featuring an ensemble of voices with reflections on how AUUC members … Continue reading “Making Good Trouble”
Our vision for the future is one we create together. Responding to the ever-changing currents of our dynamic world calls for creativity, adaptability, and collaboration. Join us for this multigenerational service where we’ll practice collaborative visioning together! Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in-person or online via Zoom. View / download the … Continue reading “Building a Way Together”
Drawing on the work of Isabel Wilkerson’s landmark book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, and Audre Lorde’s seminal essay, The Master’s Tools Cannot Dismantle the Master’s House, we’ll explore the foundation of oppressive ideologies and how we’re called to dismantle them. Join us for this illuminating and hopeful message! Question to Ponder: “Have you … Continue reading “Dismantling the Master’s House”
Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in-person or online via Zoom. Question to Ponder: Whose care has had a large impact in your life? How are you paying that forward for others in how you live? View/download the Order of Service. January Theme: Liberating Love
Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in-person or online via Zoom. Compassion can grow from our wounded places. Love and community can transform a wound into a sanctuary. Join us this Sunday as we explore how yielding into our vulnerability is a foundation for loving ourselves and others. Question to Ponder: “Who … Continue reading Community Is What Makes Love Possible
This Sunday we continue our exploration of Liberating Love with a look at the story of Stone Soup. Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in-person or online via Zoom. View / download the Order of Service here January Theme: Liberating Love
Join us for service on Sunday at 10:00 am in-person or online via Zoom. Rev. William Levwood The Purposes section of the proposed revisions to Article 2 states that as UUs we are committed to “transforming the world through liberating love.” Sometimes we jump ahead in this transformational process by moving towards solutions before connecting … Continue reading Liberating Love Gets Close
In this last service of 2023 we say goodbye to that which no longer serves us and pray for the peace our world needs. Plus! Dad jokes to start our year off with laughter, the best medicine ever found! Question to Ponder: What should you leave behind to have a happy new year? Join us … Continue reading At the Threshold of the Year
For us as Unitarian Universalists, “each night a child is born is a holy night.” So how is this night of Christmas Eve different from all other nights? Join us as we celebrate the birth of love into the world and explore together how we’re called to make every night a silent and holy night … Continue reading The Labor and Love of Christmas
Join us as we reflect on the more secular aspects of Christmas that capture the hearts of young and old alike! The AUUC choir will be offering special holiday music and we’ll all join in singing Christmas carols about Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and more! Join us for this joyful … Continue reading Christmas Is Santa (Rudolph and Frosty, Too!)
At this time of year the days grow shorter and the nights longer. The Winter Solstice is the moment when the days begin to grow longer and the nights shorter, a moment that has been honored throughout human history in places all over the world. This Sunday we’ll explore the shelter the darkness offers, celebrate … Continue reading Love Is Both Everchanging & Evergreen
