If we are committed to the rights of workers, we must also commit to dismantling white supremacy. This Labor Day weekend, Rev. Alison reminds us that race as we know it in the United States began in the late 1600s to allow the wealthy and powerful to extract free labor from racialized groups with the … Continue reading Labor Acknowledgement: The Construction of Race to Disrupt Working-Class Solidarity
Come join us to explore the meaning of Radical Hospitality: “Radical hospitality is about preparing a place at the table for all who enter our church. As a congregation we can embrace the opportunity that each child and adult who crosses the threshold into our church provides us to be in a community that sees … Continue reading Radical Hospitality: No Child Is A Mistake
As we approach the beginning of a new school year, Rev. Alison imagines a world where the needs of children are our top priority, and lifts up some of the beloved, faithful, prophetic voices that call us to put children at the center.
Can you imagine a world without punishment? Most of us have learned from an early age that punishment is essential, in parenting, in prisons, in geopolitics. Today, Rev. Alison will ask us to consider the possibility that we could build a healthy society that cared more about harm reduction than about punishment. Led by the … Continue reading Let Go The Need To Punish: Universalism, Abolition & Disarming the Warden Within
Rev. Alison returns to the pulpit with a reminder that Great Goddess has always been present within Judaism, Christianity, & even Unitarian Universalism. While at times She has been explicitly condemned, some practices of devotion to Her have also been normalized and even embraced. Our present-day UU value of Pluralism allows us to explore the … Continue reading Shekhinah, Sophia, Mother God: The Divine Feminine in Our Judeo-Christian History
Join Debra Valpey and friends as we celebrate our shared lives with our beloved pets, our admired sea creatures, our flying “siblings,” and our wild kin. Debra will lead us in pondering our relationships as human beings with those who share our earth, our hearth and hearts, and our dreams and hopes. Your pets (canine, … Continue reading Our Shared Home and Destinies with our World of Animals
Interplay is connecting through play, creating grace in community with joy and music. Playfulness is being in a state of grace. Come and play with music and directed movement like mirroring a partner’s movements or humming a little song of your own. All ages and abilities welcome.
Join our Faith Formation Team for our final service exploring the Social Change Roles from Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Now. This month, we focus on Visionaries, who use the power of imagination to go beyond what others think is possible.
Join us in an interactive exploration on the impact picturebooks can have through their words, illustrations, and conversations with others. Picturebooks can be a place of escape, learning, feeling seen, representation, shared experiences, moments in others lives, and exploration. Authors words, illustrators pictures and the readers lived experiences, opinions, and ideas can shape what stands … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors
On this Faith Formation Sunday, we’ll share in the rituals that tell the stories of our growing community, including a Child Dedication and a Bridging Ceremony for a youth who was dedicated as a child and has now entered adulthood! We’ll also explore the role of the Storyteller in shaping our understanding of what is … Continue reading Storying Our Lives: Faith Formation Sunday
