Category: Sunday Service

Using themes from the Pixar movie Coco, this multigen service will explore how stories from our past influence our present and impact our future. This service will have opportunities to connect and build relationships acroos generations.

This Sunday we will be looking at life’s changes through the lens of the fall Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This time period between these two holidays and the beginning of the new year in Judaism is a wonderful time to reflect on things we did (or didn’t do) in the previous year and commit to living our values better in the year to come.

What would it look like to be pre-welcoming of people we haven’t yet met? In the UU world right now there is discussion of a new concept, “Preemptive Radical Inclusion.” In this service we will consider what hospitality and welcoming looks like – and feels like – for people we haven’t yet imagined.

The UU Water Ceremony is our annual Ingathering, our “Welcome Home” service. In this multigenerational service we will share the story of a village council that learns to share their resources with each other. Everyone is encouraged to bring water from their summer travels or from home. The service will be immediately followed by the Memorial Garden dedication.

The 2500 year old teachings of the Buddha on compassion, interconnectedness, and living an examined life can serve us well in today’s turbulent, divisive times. This talk focuses on how we can use the teachings of the Buddha to helps attain both personal and global peace and security.

Truly living from our core of Universalism – all are loved – transforms us into people who practice love as a way of being in the world. We are the love people! Come let us explore what it means to let love transform us and the world.

Using the teachings of Thich Naht Hanh, we will explore what it means to have a Beginner’s Mind. With a Beginner’s Mind, we can experience joy and wonder every day!

The word love is like a bucket of many other big words. What is it really? And what’s love got to do with anything? Is it really the superglue that makes everything work? I’ve worked with impassioned leaders and some of them were even dogmatic and perhaps you could say ideological. But the best changemakers and agents of good have always been those who have the ability to change their minds, to be loved and cared for by others, and to make space for trusting the good in others. The ability to give and receive are signifiers of love. Charity…

At General Assembly (GA) the delegates approved the proposal to study changes to Article II, a section of the UUA bylaws. The proposed change has love at the center with our core values spiraling out. Love truly is the core of who we are. Let us come together and imagine what it would be like to have love be our guiding force.

Come join with us in discussing interesting topics procured by the Sunday Services Committee. Two discussion group topics will be featured on this Sunday morning: “##” and “##”.