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Love and compassion are rooted deeply in both our Unitarian and Universalist faith histories. What does this look like through the lens of justice, where faith and our call to action are reciprocal and deeply intertwined? What does this look like today, as the need for racial justice calls out? Today we decenter voices of privilege, and instead work to center the…
Theodore Parker has been acknowledged as the premier Unitarian minister and theologian of the 19th century. A founder of the transcendentalist movement and a leading abolitionist, he believed, along with William Ellery Channing, in peacefully ending slavery through legislative means. Eventually, however, Parker became radicalized leading him and other Unitarians to violence. We’ll have a glimpse of 19th century Unitarians and explore…
Judaism has much to teach us all about the power of repentance and forgiveness – of deep introspection of the soul. I invite us all into a journey of overlapping paths crisscrossing over various beliefs and truths of both Judaism and Unitarian Universalism as we pause to reflect on the High Holy Days, obtaining ancient Jewish wisdom. To see a video, click…
(Water Communion Service) This year, we use this day to celebrate the interdependent web of which we are all a part. Connected to one another by the elements of the earth, we will offer a symbolic act to rejoice in our sacred community. We will connect with each other, as well as those in our…
This Sunday we will explore the concept of Justice, how it has “evolved” over the course of history, and how we are currently on the sill of another major step forward–if we are up to taking it. (By Bernie Nebel, member of Channing Memorial Church)