Speaker: Jane Chronis

Honor All Beings

This concludes our series of services exploring the benediction we say together each week. What does it mean to seek to honor all beings? What might a spiritual practice of honoring others look like, and what effect could it have on our daily lives? … read more.

Friendship: Surrendering Your Future

The service’s message about friendship is more than a warm affirmation of its importance. It can be joyful and spontaneous, or edgy and slow-growing.

Friendship is found in the relationship of two well-known political opposites who demonstrate their mutual caring even as they adamantly disagree on … read more.

Abolishing Cages: Journey to Community

The Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity is engaging communities of faith in the movement to close prisons and detention centers, and create thriving communities based in racial equity and community care. Rev. Lee will share a frontline report from the Pilgrimage to Heal our Communities … read more.

Beautiful and Terrible

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid,” says Frederick Buechner. Here we are, plunked down in a life that encompasses devastating tragedies and transcendent joys. What shall we do?

In addition to giving the sermon, Amy sings music by three … read more.

Swimming Against the Current

In the series Why Do We Do That in the Sunday Service?, we come to the sermon.

We inherited our service format from the Protestant Christian tradition from which Unitarian Universalism is descended. It has been affectionately or pejoratively nicknamed “the sermon sandwich.” The sermon, in … read more.

Why Forgive?

Why would you want to forgive someone who wronged you?  Even if you wanted to forgive them, how would you go about doing so?  During this service, we’ll consider what forgiveness is (and isn’t), why we might want to forgive (ourselves and others), and how … read more.

Worship Services – The Season of Giving

We’ve had our holiday of thanks, and now we have the season of giving. Giving might seem simple–you like someone, so you give them something they’ll enjoy–but it’s anything but. Giving can be motivated by affection, duty, obligation, gratitude, ingratiation, indebtedness, even fear; gifts can … read more.

Cakes, Quanta, and the Meaning of Life

Our guest speaker this morning is Leika Lewis-Cornwell (they/she pronouns) who is the President of the UUHA and a UU minister in formation. Over the course of a career as an organizational, policy, and cyber security consultant, Leika has helped public, private, and nonprofit organizations … read more.

Reflections of a Ladies Man

Who gets written out of history, and whose stories have been lost to us until they are retold? Rev. Barnaby Feder tells us about two, Rev. Phebe Hanaford and Rev. Elizabeth Padgham, and we’ll even hear directly from them!

Barnaby comes to us today from … read more.

The Function of Freedom

As the word “liberal” implies, religious liberalism asserts the centrality of freedom in how we relate to one another, our institutions, and the search for a good life. James Luther Adams and Toni Morrison are our guides as we look at how that really plays out in daily life. Music: Orlando Castro, guitar