Pragmatic Solidarity
We can make a difference by providing more than empathy to people who are suffering.
We can make a difference by providing more than empathy to people who are suffering.
In this ever-changing and multicultural world, we look at how it is we adapt to change and affect the culture at large. We will hear from the SW Equity Coalition this morning as well.
We are all tangled up together in a great web of life that is woven with beauty and hardship, love and loss, thriving and struggle. How do we tend well to the weaving so that all of us are held in care? Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs in worship at the … Continue reading Weaving Our Lives: General Assembly Broadcast
We humans, every one of us, are creative beings at our core. We owe our very existence to our ability to create – to problem-solve, invent, converse, write, parent, cook, heal, build, think, make clothing, art, jokes, and music. The rapidly growing capacity of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools to do many of these same things … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Be Creative?
On our final Sunday exploring evil, let’s take on the big stuff!
No matter what we have resolved to do this year, we will benefit from being our authentic selves in community with others. This patchwork service will focus on connections with our selves, our church and the world around us.
Combining our Traditional Tolling of the Bells Service and Past, Present and Future rituals, this service will honor those who have died in our community this last year as well as provide a contemplative space to ring in the new year. The service is available online and in-person. RE will be held as usual and … Continue reading Ringing in the New Year
We will hold a single candlelight service on Christmas eve, with music, stories, and candles. This service cannot be broadcast over Zoom because of the low lighting. Please join us in person at 7:00pm for the combined celebration of Winter Solstice and Christmas Eve. The service will end with music; no social hour to follow … Continue reading Candelight Christmas Eve
The “Father Knows Best” family structure is still around in U.S. families. It’s difficult to change culture, even if we think we have embraced household equity and fairness. Are there links between authoritarian households and political views?
Some people just seem to rub us raw, maybe for an obvious reason or no discernible cause. What’s the best way to handle those to whom we have instinctive resistance, especially in a democratic society where we’re supposed to collaborate with one another? Do we just grit our teeth or try to engage? Difficult folks, … Continue reading Sandpaper People