The Interconnected Web
What Animals Teach us about Human Nature…
The Annual Pledge The Annual Pledge Campaign is happening now!
What can YOU do? Respond online or on paper. Submit a campaign couplet (details in Tuesday bulletins). Return a coloring page for display in the foyer. Take part and help us build bridges to the future.
For more information, click Annual Pledge Campaign webpage. On that page you’ll find links to the pledge form (for those making a financial promise) and an update form (for those not making a financial pledge).
What Animals Teach us about Human Nature…
For so long, many UUs have led the way in women’s rights and gender inclusivity. UU children have been raised with these values. But as younger generations embrace new language and thinking about gender and sexuality, some of us worry that they are flying away and leaving us behind. While younger UUs may wonder, “Why … Continue reading Feed Them On Your Dreams
Each passerby is living a life as complex as our own. We may not recognize it, but we influence the journey of others. Let us be attentive to how we affect another as we care for our intertwined life.
This week marks the 246th year of our country’s constitutional beginning. How do we align our cruel history and our pride in this beautiful land? Let’s start with George Washington’s birthplace and wind our way into Juneteenth, finally a nationally recognized holiday.
The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.
The African diaspora via the slave trade brought sacred wisdom to the United States which wove into the history of Christianity in this country. We’ll celebrate Juneteenth by looking at the spiritual lives of Black folks during the time of slavery.
Progressive Unitarian Universalists are sometimes surprised to hear that UU’s are direct descendants of the Puritans. Using the work of historian David Hackett Fischer’s book Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, discover the Puritan’s cultural byways and how they recreated their geographic slice of eastern England in America to create lifestyles and practices that … Continue reading The Culture of the Puritans
We gather together in community and yet our relationship to the divine source is ours alone. Let’s reflect on our spiritual connection on this day of youth bridging, celebration our congregation and bringing new members into our midst.
Every minister seems to have at least one sermon on change; this is Rev. Monica Jacobson-Tennessen’s version. Come look at change through the lenses of humor, humility, and love as UUCV enters into summer worship during this sabbatical season.
Each Sunday morning during service, we profess that we “search for truth with an open mind.” But—as individual practitioners of our 4th principle— where do we look for it? Many “truths” we’ve embraced in the past no longer make sense to us. And the future only hints at “truths” yet to unfold. Truth—as shape-shifting and … Continue reading Searching For Simple Truths