Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am.
John Buehrens served as UUA President, 1993-2001. He retired as Sr. Minister of the San Francisco congregation in 2017. He is the author of nine books on progressive religion and theology and lives in SF with his wife of 52 years, Rev. Gwen Langdoc Buehrens, a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Passover begins the night before. What lessons can we draw from the ancient story of confronting Pharaoh?
Worship leader: Rev. Dr. John Buehrens
Worship Associate: Jane Chronis
Special music: Four Shillings Short, Celtic music
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Many of us meet the Transcendentalists in literature classes. We think of Thoreau, Emerson, and Concord: of individualism and nature. Yet most Transcendentalists were Unitarian church people: activists for anti-slavery, women’s rights, and social reform. They developed and maintained spiritual friendships that transcended differences in social location, gender, class, ideology, and race – all because they recognized that my full flourishing as a human being is tied up with yours. Special Music: Jim Stevens, folk guitar
If you know about Transcendentalism, Unitarian Universalism’s homegrown mystical movement, you probably know the names Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Alcott, and have mental images of Walden Pond and the village of Concern. But its reach included church-based, urban activists who applied the ethic of Transcendentalism to their own lives, and we’ll hear about those today. Music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe