The Healthy Congregations Team, Jim, Carol & Jules, join Rev. Alison to remind us that our Covenant offers us a way through the challenges and conflicts that a diverse community like ours will inevitably face. When we don’t know how to talk through our conflicts directly, the HCT is there to provide support.
Members of the Saltwater Church Lay Ministry Team Debra, Jean & Toska join Rev. Alison to offer reflections on and opportunities to engage with practices that build resilience and feed our spirits.
Part of what makes space for positive change is healing the trauma we hold from living in an unjust world. This service offers people of all ages practical tools for taming our inner dragons so that we can put love at the center…inside ourselves and in the wider webs of which we are a part. … Continue reading Faith Formation Sunday: Embodying Resilience with Healers
We will celebrate our arrival at the halfway point between Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox by engaging with the aspect of the Divine Feminine that has long been associated with this Holy Day.
Resilience is the oil from which the sacrament of resistance burns. Join Saltwater member Linda Irish as she explores the interplay between the two.
With our heritage grounded in both Christianity and in the use of human reason in religious life, Unitarian Universalism is uniquely positioned to critique the false ideology of Christian Nationalism that is tarnishing Jesus’ name in the US today. Rev. Alison will draw from sources within and outside of Christianity to remind us that the … Continue reading Resisting the False Doctrine of Christian Nationalism
When business as usual isn’t working, sometimes someone needs to shake things up so change can happen. During this all-ages service, will explore the power of disruption and hear from disrupters in our community. On the second Sundays of the month in 2026, our Faith Formation Team will offer an all-ages service focusing on how … Continue reading Faith Formation Sunday: The Power of Disrupters
Today, we’ll celebrate the way Unitarian Universalism welcomes neurodiverse people, and the way that our faith is enriched by the diverse brains among us. Our monthly theme for January is Practicing Resistance, and we begin this practice by resisting the demonization of neurodiversity.
We name ‘Transformation” as one of the six key values of Unitarian Universalism, with Love at the center. Drawing from Buddhist teachings and practices of impermanence, we’ll explore the hope we can find in the knowledge that change is constant and transformation is unending.
In the dark of winter, the Christmas story reminds us that Divine Love is born among us in the humblest of places, and the bleakest of times. Join Rev. Alison for Bible stories, carols, and candlelight as we celebrate Love’s birth into the weary world.
