Winter Solstice
Come celebrate the shortest day of the year in a service about selfless love known in Greek as agape.
Speaker: Emily Layfield
Transforming Thanksgiving
For good reason, the holiday of Thanksgiving has fallen out of favor with a younger generation. How might we tell the truth about our history and still give thanks?
Delighting in Movement
We are exploring love as it relates to those things which delight us. Dance, movement, pantomime, and the ways we move our bodies are a constant source of delight. Why is this so? How can we take advantage of this biological fact?
The Unsung Journey
Last summer, we explored the “unsung hymnal,” those hymns in our hymnal that we tend to ignore for one reason or another. Though Singing the Journey has only been around for 20 years, we’ve had plenty of time to ignore a lot of hymns in there as well. We’ll sing through some unfamiliar tunes, and … Continue reading The Unsung Journey
Our Transylvanian Roots
As I prepare to travel to attend the 4th International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women in Kolozsvár, Romania, I’ve been thinking about our European roots, especially the region known as Transylvania. It’s known for medieval towns, mountainous borders and castles like Bran Castle, a Gothic fortress associated with the legend of Dracula. It is also … Continue reading Our Transylvanian Roots
Pragmatic Solidarity
We can make a difference by providing more than empathy to people who are suffering.
Explore Life Through the Lens of Alex Dang
Award-winning Slam poet Alex Dang’s poems reflect powerfully on the internal experience of navigating external expectations, with some works including “What Kind of Asian Are You?” and “Times I’ve Been Mistaken for a Girl” He has strong opinions about burgers. He wants to know what your favorite song is.
Who Am I? Personal Spiritual Past and Present
It is a true blessing that within our tradition we are free to learn and grow over the years. Our personal spiritual journeys change and evolve. I’ll explore mine with you so that you might reflect on your own.
Freedom from Evil
The term “collective liberation” has taken hold as we recognize the complicated and related oppressions that plague our societies. “Liberation theology” is the name of a particular theological framework for achieving collective liberation. This service will unpack some of these terms so that we might free ourselves and our world.
May Nothing Evil Cross this Door
When the hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, was published in 1993, the hymn by that title was the most sung hymn by our congregations (thus printed as the first hymn in the book). What did we mean by it when it was sung prior to 1993 and what do we mean by it now?