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
Who were some of the visionary change makers? How did their love for their people and humankind change history, and save lives?
Let’s explore the mysterious and practical sides of telling the truth and seeing into the mysteries of the future. What does ancestral wisdom bring forward into our understanding of how we do right by each other?
Earth based traditions and prophetic women’s voices offer us roots, wings, and unique insights into our collective liberation.
