Gathering for Sunday services in person and online at 10:30 am.
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The novelist Barbara Kingsolver says, “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” On this weekend nominally dedicated to remembrance, we reflect: what do we choose to remember? What do we choose to forget? And how can we use memorial … read more.
UUCPA is a community of learners. We seek always to discover more–to understand the world and ourselves more deeply–to learn from each other, from books, from the accumulated knowledge of centuries of thinkers and scientists and activists–to become wiser. Almost all of the children, and … read more.
Bring a flower, or a bunch! In this tradition, practiced by Unitarian Universalists for 101 years, we celebrate the beautiful variety among us and gratefully receive a flower that someone else has brought. We will look closely at the flowers as a mindfulness practice we … read more.
Video preview: Diatoms are going to help save our souls
One way or another, whenever the “cancel culture” conversation arises, it seems as if we’re being asked to see other people in black and white. Resisting this tendency … read more.
Most of us individually do the little things like recycling, composting, reducing car usage, and eating less meat to address climate change. But the very large sources of greenhouse gasses come from businesses. Convincing businesses to switch to pricier climate alternatives can be challenging. Orhan … read more.
We like to turn away from a scarcity mentality toward one of abundance–at least, we Unitarian Universalist ministers do. But does that set us up for further exploitation of the Earth, whose resources are not limitlessly abundant? Robert Neff was the winning bidder on “You … read more.
And How to Bring Them into Everyday Life
Prashant and Aarav will be exploring “kindness and awareness” along these prompts:
– what could kindness and awareness, practically, do to you?
– what blocks them or comes in the way?
– what could you tell yourself or what could you … read more.
And, possibly, your answers questioned! Today’s service is the approximately-annual Question Box service, when in the time usually allotted to the sermon, Amy will answer as many of your questions as she can. The meaning of life? How we find the spiritual practice that’s right … read more.
How appropriate that Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility coincide this year! The trans and nonbinary people shown with their families in the photo-text exhibit that opens today at UUCPA exemplify the joyful rebirth one can experience by being authentically … read more.
We watch reports of the attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, and the devastation in Gaza since then, with grief and often a sense of impotence. Long before last fall, the issue of Israel and Palestine has been particularly hard for Unitarian Universalists even … read more.