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.
Intergenerational Thanksgiving service. Today’s service considers ideas and practices that help us live with constant gratitude—an attitude that benefits mind, body, spirit… and others.
Worship Leaders: Rev. Peter Farriday, Rev. Cat Boyle
Worship Associate: Steven Mashin
Follow along in the order of service bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20231119.
Join … read more.
Teenage UUCPAers’ 8th- or 9th-grade year is one of Coming of Age, a months-long program in which they learn more about Unitarian Universalism and articulate their own beliefs. During that time, they have met with mentors in the congregation, discussed big questions with each other … read more.
On Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. All of us reflect on what rebirth might mean in this one wild and precious life. Are the cycles of nature really a good parallel for human rebirth and resurrection? And bunnies and chocolate eggs are supposed … read more.
Antiochus’s soldiers defile the Temple
We rejoice in the everyday miracles of the season, marking winter solstice, telling the story of Hanukah–which begins tonight–and inviting all who wish to play a part to help make the story of Jesus’s birth come to life in our … read more.
It’s that time of year! We tell the Christmas story in keeping with our Unitarian Universalist heritage and with everyone who wishes to join in becoming characters in the story. And for the first time since March 2020, we have two services in person, indoors … read more.
Thanksgiving is all about sharing and unity and going over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house! Right? Well, actually . . . In this friendly debate, Kris Geering takes the affirmative and Greg Becker, well, he’s the negative. But between them, they … read more.
The audio player above plays the audio podcast of the sermon only. The YouTube player below plays the video of the entire service with copyrighted and private information redacted.
We welcome Christmas, live-streamed from our beloved sanctuary, with stories, carols and special music, and candles. Come … read more.
The YouTube player below plays the video of the entire service with copyrighted and private information redacted.
Follow along in the order of service: bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20201220
In this intergenerational service, we rejoice in the everyday miracles of the season, marking the winter solstice and inviting all who … read more.
Our intergenerational Thanksgiving service comes at a tough time. The story The Table Where Rich People Sit, by Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall, offers a way to think about our lives when we don’t have everything we want. With that story and a special performance from Greg Becker and Kris Geering, plus more adventures of Possum and friends and lots of beautiful music, we’ll literally count up our blessings and see how we’re doing.
