We honour the interdependent web of all existence. We envision a world in which our interdependence calls us to love and justice. This is our covenant to cherish Earth and all beings by creating and nurturing relationships of care and respect. With humility and reverence, we acknowledge our place in the great web of life, … Continue reading What a Web We Weave
While many know October 31 as Hallowe’en, this date is also known as Samhain – a Pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition. Arran will introduce Samhain and a Celtic perspective on the Four Directions, exploring the gifts the directions can offer to sustain us through the winter. You’re encouraged to dress in costume!
Edwin Markham, sometimes called the poet laureate of Universalism, wrote about inclusion and exclusion in his short epigrammatic poem Outwitted. “He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.” Drawing the circle of … Continue reading A Wide, Wild Welcome
Presented by our Sunday Services Committee, join us for this small group service about love.
What happens when you put an ancient wisdom text in conversation with a modern country song? The Book of Ecclesiastes begins with a poem describing how there is “nothing new under the sun.” According to the narrator, Qohelet, in a world where everything repeats and yet nothing endures, there is no ultimate meaning to life. … Continue reading One Little Song Under the Sun
In these liminal times, how does our Unitarian Universalist faith sustain us? So much loss and change has diminished our feelings of well-being and connection, while heightening the sense of scarcity and amplifying anxiety. What commonly held values can we call on to inform our responses, motivate actions and provide some ease? Could generosity be … Continue reading Can We Give What We Get?
We take that old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder to be about the relativity of beauty, how we each name different things beautiful, which is, of course, true. But it also reminds us that if we wish to see beauty in the world, we must choose to behold it, to … Continue reading An Awesome World
… the earth, connection, new ideas … are there universal notions of beauty? Is it only in the eye of the beholder? As we engage a monthly theme of beauty, let us expand our understanding.
Music: Leah Hokanson Children & Youth: Wendy Jankovic Click here for Zoom link to service Water is the theme for the morning as we flow back together. While we may each be just a drop in the bucket, we come together to create our oasis of hope and challenge recognizing that each of our lives and our actions … Continue reading Just A Drop
The Flower Communion service was created by Norbert Capek, founder of the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, and introduced to North America by his wife Maja, also a Unitarian minister. It is a symbolic ritual intended to bring congregations together. Join members of the Sunday Service Committee as they present this year’s ceremony. Please bring some … Continue reading Flower Communion
