From the Associate Minister of RE – Rev. Dan Harper

  • Weaving the Web: my schedule this summer

    Weaving the Web: my schedule this summer
    Dear 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 to help her develop what I know will soon be ...
  • “Letter of Understanding” between Amy, Cat, and Dan

    Amy, Cat, and Dan all want to give Cat’s new ministry at the UU Church of Palo Alto (UUCPA) a chance to take root. They also want to help Dan’s new ministry at First Parish in Cohasset, Mass., take root. UUA regional staffer Melissa James suggested that to help both these new ministries flourish, any ...
  • Flower Communion May 8

    Flower Communion May 8
    The annual Flower Communion service, held this year on May 8, is an intergenerational service. Many children find it enjoyable. Everyone brings a flower from home to the service. Then during the service, everyone gets a chance to choose a different flower to take home with them. This uniquely Unitarian Universalist service was developed at the ...
  • In-person worship services

    Beginning Sunday, March 6, we’ll have two in-person worship services, at 9:30 and 11:00. The 9:30 service will have outdoor seating, distanced and masked, in the patio outside the Main Hall. The 11:00 service will have indoors seating, distanced and masked, in the Main Hall. If you’re bringing children to Sunday school, be sure to arrive ...
  • Holiday cards for incarcerated people – Dec 12

    Holiday cards for incarcerated people - Dec 12
    On Sunday, Dec. 12, those who come in person to the 9:30 service can write holiday messages to people experiencing incarceration. We’ll be sending cards to two groups: queer and trans people who are members of “Black and Pink National” (founded by a UU minister), and people who are members of the “Church of the Larger ...
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