Category: Sunday Service

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Sarah Flynn joins us this Sunday morning with her presentation on being a good stranger. Her central theme will be showing kindness in situations where one’s first inclination might be to shut down or run away. In three short stories from her road life: a car accident in California, meeting a homeless couple in Montana, and participating in community safety in Colorado, she will highlight how strangers have helped her and how she has tried to pay it forward.

Dennis invites us to explore the science of how humans perceive the world differently from animals and from other humans. We participate in a fun chemistry experiment and find many examples from a new book called “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (2022) to discover that what we thought we knew from our senses just ain’t necessarily so! The implications are vast and amazing as we progress through the mathematics of infinity, examples of perception among animals, and challenges to popular beliefs. From this new perspective we get fresh insights of the principles of Unitarian Universalism: search for Truth, worthiness…