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Flowing Back TogetherEach year around this time we celebrate our connection to one another with an all-ages “Ingathering” service. This includes a Water Communion ritual, so please bring a little water—maybe from a source special to you—to pour into a communal bowl. (If you forget yours there’ll be a pitcher of lovely Hetch Hetchy water … Continue reading Sunday, August 30, 2026 – Water Communion
Join us for a special service: we celebrate our shared ministry together! Rev. Cat Boyle has journeyed with us since August 2022, serving under a contract. Last Spring this congregation voted to change that relationship. We voted to “call” Rev. Cat as our settled assistant minister of religious education. This Installation Service is the celebration … Continue reading Sunday, February 1, 2026
Each year at this time, we celebrate the ways we are all connected to each other and every other living thing. For our intergenerational Water Communion service, please bring a little water to pour into the communal bowl. We will give thanks for water and everything that weaves us into an interdependent web, and accept … Continue reading Water Communion
In our annual, intergenerational Chalice Sunday service, we learn about the origin of our flaming chalice, and some of the traditions that are celebrated on this day, such as Candlemas, St. Brigid’s Day, and Imbolc. On this Chalice Sunday, we’ll be asking ourselves: what is a flame that has been passed to me for my … Continue reading Keepers of the Flame
Each year at this time, we celebrate the ways we are all connected to each other and every other living thing. For our intergenerational Water Communion service, please bring a little water to pour into the communal bowl. We will give thanks for water and everything that weaves us into an interdependent web, and accept … Continue reading Water Communion: Interwoven, All Connected
We are all tangled up together in a great web of life that is woven with beauty and hardship, love and loss, thriving and struggle. How do we tend well to the weaving so that all of us are held in care? This is the Sunday morning worship service of our annual General Assembly, so … Continue reading Weaving Our Lives
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 engage in together. Folks attending online, the closer you can … Continue reading Look Closely: Flower Sunday
Achieving real social and economic justice will require more than just charity and generosity. We will also need to re-envision and re-interpret some of our system’s basic economic concepts. One approach is to rethink the meaning of property, following a path that Thomas Paine (inspired by Native American societies) laid out more than 200 years … Continue reading Who Owns the World?
Exactly 100 years ago, on June 4, 1923, the minister of the Unitarian Church in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Rev. Norbert Čapek, introduced the Flower Celebration. He asked the people of the congregation to bring flowers, and after they gathered them into one beautiful display and blessed them, each took away a different flower than the … Continue reading Intergenerational Flower Communion
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 and Rev. Cat, and created art and other projects. The … Continue reading Coming of Age