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This Sunday, we deeply engage with the ideas of welcome, spirituality, faith, and religion. Our exploration is multilayered. First, what do we gain when we welcome faith and spirituality into our own lives? Once we have found our own spiritual grounding, I invite us to explore, through the musings of Jewish and Buddhist scholars, what it is that is universal in the…
This Sunday, we reflect on how a practice of curiosity serves as an act of love and radical welcome. By simply engaging with those in our midst, we illuminate the humanity of those we encounter, an act that is significant in this world of indifference, judgment, and animosity. Through thoughtful questioning, we invite into our lives myriad stories, blessing the listener and…
“Amid tear gas and police dogs, Desmond Tutu led a people against apartheid.” -President Barrack Obama. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died at age 90 in 2021. One of his most famous quotes was, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the…
The Sunday service for August 13th will be brought to you by the members of Rev. Jane’s latest “Build Your Own Theology” class (Angela, Kathleen, Ostara, and Virginia). The class was based on Volume 2 Richard S. Gilbert’s, Building Your Own Theology series (Unitarian Universalist Association (2005)). Our theme, “What Holds Us Together,” is based on a chapter from the book. We have two important “heads ups”: A…
Dr. Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, was a Unitarian minister who immigrated to the U.S. with the help of Benjamin Franklin after his home, church and lab were destroyed by a mob in England because of his pro-American and French Revolution advocacy and his Unitarian religious views. Once here, he continued his religious and political discourse joining Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, thus…