Gathering for Sunday services in person and online at 10:30 am
This Sunday, October 30, we hold our annual service of remembrance.
If you are attending in person, at either 9:30 or 11, you are invited to bring photos and mementos to bedeck the physical altar. There will also be a place to light candles, and to write … read more.
Immediately after the service on Sunday, you are welcome to follow me and Mary to the memorial garden in front of the Main Hall. We will dedicate a new bench and bricks, and give our gift of water to the tree that symbolizes our ancestors, … read more.
Dear UUCPA folks,
Can I confess something? I think about 20% of my motivation in becoming a UU minister was to recreate a peak experience of my teenage years. Experiences, since it wasn’t one time but something that happened most Fridays during the school year. That’s … read more.
Two Town Halls have been held to gather people’s thoughts about switching to one Sunday service year round. About 20 people have weighed in, either by attending one of the Town Halls or by sending me an email, and the strong feeling is for one … read more.
We were having some troubles with our phone system at UUCPA this week, so if you have encountered any difficulties in getting through, please try again next week or email us now. Staff email addresses are all here.
In particular, the … read more.
Principles revised with an eye to what is “inspirational, memorable and poetic, inclusive, welcoming, and explicitly anti-racist”
For two years, a commission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has been reviewing Article II of the association’s by-laws, which is where the principles, purposes, and sources of … read more.
I’ll be posting frequently about ways to connect via volunteering. Why? Because alongside small groups, volunteering is usually the fastest, surest way to feel like you are really a part of a community. The key is to choose something that you enjoy and that fits … read more.
Bear Capron has published a memoir, Easy to Love, and UUCPA is the place for the launch party! To get RSVP information, contact Bear Capron from the UUCPA directory or email uucpa@uucpa.org to ask for Bear’s contact info.
There will be music, hors d’oeuvres, and of course … read more.
Please join Rev Amy and other leaders on Thursday, October 13 at 4 pm in-person at UUCPA for an open forum on these and any other questions that you have: What would we gain by going to one service? What disadvantages would it bring? Could we mitigate them? If we have just one service, what time do we want it to be?
Reflection Group: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, by Cole Arthur Riley
Beginning on November 2 and continuing until just before she leaves on sabbatical, Amy will be leading a reflection group on the book This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, … read more.