The Flower Communion is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. This year we celebrate on Mother’s Day, honoring the beauty, uniqueness and diversity or all the people in our lives who have mothered us as well as our Mother Earth. There will be two alters set up for this multigenerational … Continue reading Flower Communion & Honoring the Mothers in Our Lives
Description: Rev. Alison and special guest former union organizer Dorothy Gibson will share the connections between faith values and the rights of working people. Music Director Tom Burt and the Saltwater Choir with Betty Beck on banjo will weave workers’ anthems from Dolly Parton, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger through this celebration of the power … Continue reading Solidarity Forever: Celebrating International Worker’s Day
LIZ JAMES from the UU hysterical society returns! In a world that is vying to sidetrack us using everything from injustice to smartphone games, how do we carve out space for joy and purpose? This service will be a celebration of joyful dedication to what matters most. Join us for music, poetry, and several entertaining … Continue reading Living Your Purpose: A Potato-Based Guide
Rev. Alison and participants in Saltwater Climate Action Now! (SCAN!) share a mutligenerational service to inspire people of all ages to care for the lands, waters, and fellow creatures of our Earthly home.
As our pledge drive comes to a close we celebrate the many ways we weave the web of community, and take time to imagine a future that we can only create together, where our mission to Practice Love, Foster Connection, Nurture Spiritual Growth, and Act for Justice has come to pass.
The 6th Unitarian Universalist Principle calls on us to affirm and promote, “the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all,” and the proposed UU values statement “declare[s] that every person has the right to flourish with inherent dignity and worthiness.” Rev. Alison will share how her commitment to peace and non-violence … Continue reading Peace Like a River
Description: This Easter Sunday, we will honor the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will hear about Easter and about Passover from members of the Haitians Christian United Church and the Bet Chavarim Synagogue, with whom we share our sanctuary. We will also hear a story about Ramadan from the Islamic tradition. … Continue reading Ramadan, Easter and Passover – Honoring Traditions as One Joyful Community
Ours is a joyful community made up of members and friends who come together of our own free will to put our mission into action. Today, we’ll experience the joy of co-creation during our Sunday service, making an art installation together in real time, guided by Miriam Woito. No artistic talent or experience required! With … Continue reading Joyful Community
The Equinox, where day and night are equal in length, is an in-between time of balance on the wheel’s turning throughout the year. As we gather to honor this pagan holy day, we will explore the beauty of the both/and that Equinox brings, and celebrate the ascendancy of daylight, growth, and new life that comes … Continue reading Rising Green: Celebrating Spring Equinox
Listening is, as you can imagine, so much more than NOT talking. It is an active process that honors the inner strength of both the listener and the one being listened to, and serves as a witness to your pain and discomfort. Join your lay ministers–Debra Valpey, Jean Spohn, and Toska Rodriguez–as we share our … Continue reading Thoughts & Reflections from Your Lay Ministers
