Cultivating Resilience with Spiritual Practices
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.
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Faith Formation Sunday: Embodying Resilience with Healers
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
Brigid’s Resilience: An Imbolc Service
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.
Resistance & Resilience
Resilience is the oil from which the sacrament of resistance burns. Join Saltwater member Linda Irish as she explores the interplay between the two.
Resisting the False Doctrine of Christian Nationalism
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
Faith Formation Sunday: The Power of Disrupters
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
Our Neurodiverse Faith
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.
The Hopefulness of Impermanence: Valuing Transformation
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.
Love Came Down at Christmas: A Candlelight Service
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.
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Winter Solstice
On the shortest day of the year, Rev. Alison leads us in pondering the gift of the luminous dark. Service will be followed by Spiral of Darkness & Light walking meditation and Solstice fire.