Rest is Resistance
Rest is a tool for liberation and healing! Using the framework of Tricia Hersey’s book, “Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto” we will slow down and experience renewal together.
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Bold and Courageous Together
Interdependence is one of our core UU values that we experience through the concept of “shared ministry.” Come find out what this is all about!
Trying, Learning, Trying Again
On July 2 UUCF tried a new thing: an intentional multigenerational service. We are planning on having one multigen service every month and one service a month with a Message for All Ages. The July 2nd service was on Improv and being open to new things. It was quite appropriate that the Sunday we try out something new the electricity was out. We made the best of it even though it didn’t go quite as we had hoped or planned. It was definitely an experience in being open to what we do not yet know. So why are we doing…
Margaret Sanger & Katharine McCormick
Margaret Sanger went to jail 9 times to win the right for birth control. Katharine Dexter McCormick provided the funding for the development of the pill. Gloria Steinem said: Sanger and McCormick taught us to look at the world as if women mattered.
Yes/And!
At our service on Sunday, July 2 we focused our service together around the idea of what it would be like to say Yes! to questions or ideas that others presented to us. Using the framework of Improv, we dived deep into the Improv rules and considered how they might apply to our UUCF community. Two resources that I want to share with you is Shonda Rhimes’ book “The Year of Yes” and Victor Frankl’s book “Yes to Life.” Two very different sources (we are UUs, after all!) but both talk about the importance of saying yes even – especially…
Lessons from Improv
Improv acting is all about how do we build connections and move forward together. The foundational agreement of Yes/And is a great tool for faith communities to learn how to be together across differences. Come, let us play and explore together!
General Assembly Service 2023
Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship. This powerful, communal worship experience will stream on Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 11:00 am. The Office of the UUA President, the Rev. Susan Frederick Gray, is pleased to announce that the Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister of the First UU Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI will lead the 2023 Sunday Service at GA.
The Small Stuff
Song sermon by Julie Beutel, a local folk singer and song leader. “What it comes down to are the Little Things. Songs and quotes to inspire, get you thinking, (maybe singing), and remind us what really matters when it’s all said and done.”
Pride
Come celebrate Pride Sunday with the UU Farmington community! Through music and readings – which will include the choir performing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” – we will explore what it means to live authentic and proud lives.
Is it Time for an 8th Principle?
At the General Assembly (GA) in 2017 there was discussion of adding an 8th Principle, specifically to address racism in our congregations. At this service our speaker will explain more about the 8th Principle and Article II revisions and share why as a lifelong UU, Director of Religious Education and a UU consultant she supports them both. Article II will be introduced at this year’s GA, if it receives a simple majority, the final vote on Article II will be carried to GA 2024.