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Samhain

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.

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A Wide, Wild Welcome

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 … read more.

Love – A Small Group Service

Presented by our Sunday Services Committee, join us for this small group service about love.

All services are currently both in person and via Zoom at 11:00 a.m. To join any of our upcoming services on Zoom, please click on this SERVICE LINK a few minutes before … read more.

One Little Song Under the Sun

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 … read more.

Can We Give What We Get?

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 … read more.

An Awesome World

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 … read more.

For The Beauty Of …

… 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.

Rev. Debra Faulk, a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, retired in 2021 as Minister … read more.

Flower Communion

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 … read more.

Great(?) Expectations

In so many instances of life, our experience of a moment is conditioned by our expectations for that moment. If we had low expectations, we might be delighted when they’re exceeded, or deeply disappointed when the opposite occurs – even if what actually happened was … read more.