Watch Live! Religion and spirituality are really about what are we willing to commit ourselves to – what values, what hopes and what dreams are we willing to dedicate our talents, time, and money towards. For this second worship service of our Annual … read more.
Watch Live! We make a living by what we earn, we make a life by what we give. Being generous of our time, energy, and money is a common emphasis of most religions. Generosity of Spirit is something that can be nurtured and grown. … read more.
Watch Live! In the busyness and routine of our everyday life, we can overlook or neglect the beauty life offers us. Even in some of our most difficult times beauty is available to us. How can we be more open to embracing the beauty … read more.
Watch Live! Unitarian Universalism is rightly proud of our emphasis on our non-creedal approach to religion grounded in religious freedom. Like many positive aspects of life, religious freedom can have a shadow side emphasizing a radical individualistic approach. This can make religious community … read more.
Join Us for new Talkback Time , discussion at 12 pm after the coffee hour. Life transformations and transitions can be sudden or gradual, planned or unexpected. Sometimes major life changes can be suddenly forced upon us … read more.
Watch Live! Racism is a dominant aspect of our North American culture and has become prominent in our public consciousness due to the recurring injustices experienced by people of color within our Criminal Justice system. Our UUA has been … read more.
Watch Live! Many religions emphasize the perfection of God. Our Unitarian Universalist religion takes this even further with one of our most influential thinkers, William Ellery Channing, stating “To seek the very spirit of God, which proposes as its … read more.
Watch Live! On this Christmas Eve, we will honor the Christian story of the birth of Jesus. Many of us feel the Christmas story is so familiar that new meaning can seem hard to find. Perhaps much of the … read more.
Watch Live! Winter Holiday music can be polarizing. Some of our most beloved music may be from our holiday traditions, and perhaps some of the most annoying. Religion at its most fundamental level is about meaning-making and music is … read more.
Watch Live! The commercialization of Christmas and the Christian focus on Easter can often overshadow the important religious meaning of Christmas. The Easter idea of resurrection is well-known and powerful. Less well-known but also powerful is the Christmas idea … read more.
Watch Live! It seems fair to say that 2020 has been a hard year for all of us. We understandably seem to be responding to the uncertainty and suffering with angst, anger. The upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday emphasizes being grateful for … read more.
Watch Live! Forgiveness can be one of the most challenging acts for a person or a community to undertake. Perhaps the most difficult act of forgiveness for many of us is the act of forgiving oneself for our own wrongdoing. Carrying heavy regrets … read more.
Watch Live! Certain dates in our lives mark a time of before and after. The date we started a new job, moved to an new part of the world, graduation days, wedding days, birth of first child and other anniversaries … read more.
Watch Live! We are living through a vitally important and challenging time in our country’s history. We face an important election amidst a health pandemic, an economic recession, and a continuing climate crisis. There are times we just feel like … read more.
Watch Live! Religion can be thought of as having two main purposes: giving hope in hard times and finding meaning in suffering. Perhaps overly simplistic but there feels like some truth there. We seem to be living in anxious times … read more.
Watch Live! Pride is a complex word with both positive and negative connotations. In a negative sense pride can convey an inflated sense of one’s own importance and is considered one of the seven deadly sins. On the positive side, … read more.
Watch Live! Our 5th Unitarian Universalist principle is the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large. We believe that the granting of power and authority to people should be … read more.
Listen Live! The themes of atonement, repentance, and repair are of primary importance to Judaism. They are honored through the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur which generally occur in early Fall during the Jewish New Year. This … read more.
Listen Live! Many of us identify as Unitarian Universalist – but do we mean the same or even similar things when we identify as such? Or is our biggest commonality our doubt about having any centralizing religious concept that brings … read more.
Listen Live! Breath has a profound religious significance in many religious traditions as well as being fundamental to our basic living. In classical Greek thought breath has a similar meaning to spirit or soul. During this time of COVID19 pandemic … read more.
