It’s here! One part of UUCPA’s mission is to help you transform yourself by doing whatever gives you deep gladness. Another part is to help transform the world by feeding its deep hungers. The Volunteer Fair this … read more.
Category Weaving the Web
Weaving the Web: Find your gladness (at the Volunteer Fair Oct 2)
October 1st, 2022 by Amy Zucker MorgensternWeaving the Web: Our moment
September 10th, 2022 by Amy Zucker MorgensternPublic comments on Juristac invited until September 26
Dear UUCPA folks, Our congregation UUCPA is a Green Sanctuary congregation, and we are also dedicated to reversing the effects of white supremacy. The proposed pit mine for Juristac … read more.
Weaving the Web
August 6th, 2022 by Amy Zucker MorgensternDear UUCPA folks,
The web of our communities has gotten a bit frayed in the past two and a half years, hasn’t it? Having had to adjust to isolation, we may have lost the habit of gathering together. And it is a habit: a matter of … read more.
Weaving the Web: my schedule this summer
June 11th, 2022 by Amy Zucker MorgensternDear UUCPA folks,
It was such a pleasure last week to see Cat on our campus and how warmly she was greeted. In keeping with the theme of tomorrow’s service, joy and sorrow are intermixed. I’m excited to get to know this new colleague better and … read more.
Midweek meditation: From fear to fulfillment
October 11th, 2019 by Amy Zucker MorgensternMidweek meditation: from fear to fulfillment
Thanks to the creativity and drive of UUCPA member Randy Helmonds, we will be hosting the Blood Donation Olympics on Saturday, October 26. I want to share my story with you.
In my family, donating blood has always been one … read more.
How we got our benediction
January 15th, 2019 by Amy Zucker MorgensternI wrote about our then-new benediction on my blog about a month after we adopted it. This past Sunday, I alluded to the line about beauty, and promised to fill you in on the background. Here it is.
We began ending our services with … read more.
Midweek meditation
November 10th, 2017 by Amy Zucker MorgensternI can’t wait to see the new Murder on the Orient Express. Some might find that surprising. I’ve seen the Sidney Lumet version with Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot at least once or twice, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read the … read more.
Midweek meditation
September 28th, 2017 by Amy Zucker MorgensternSeveral months ago I was rehearsing with the choir, which generously welcomes sporadic participants like me, when we turned to a piece I knew I’d sung before. It turned out that the choir had sung it at my installation here, 13 years earlier, and then … read more.
Midweek Meditation
September 21st, 2017 by Amy Zucker MorgensternMidweek meditation
September 13th, 2017 by Amy Zucker MorgensternThere are lots of hymns that express my religion. And there are lots of popular-genre songs that express my thoughts on various and sundry secular matters. But what’s rare is a song that sings like a pop song while also getting right to the heart … read more.