Coming into Full Bloom: Flower Communion Sunday
Celebrate Flower Communion with Rev. Dianne Daniels and Sarah St. George as we explore growth, belonging, and the beauty of becoming more fully ourselves. Please bring a flower to share.
Topic: UU Values
What Am I Carrying Forward? The End of a Season, The Beginning of Growth
As the church year ends, we’ll reflect on growth, lessons learned, and the values we carry into summer, exploring how spiritual practices continue shaping our lives beyond Sunday.
What is Mine to Do? Claiming Your Spiritual Work
As Pride Month begins, this service explores authenticity, courage, and compassionate community through the lens of UU values, inviting us to reflect on what it means to claim our spiritual work and help create a more inclusive world.
Practice Makes Presence: Building a Spiritual Life That Holds
A meaningful spiritual life isn’t formed in moments of inspiration, but in the quiet consistency of daily practice. This message invites us to build habits that reflect our values and help us return to ourselves again and again.
Living the Values: Faith Beyond the Moment
What does it mean to truly live our faith beyond Sunday? This service explores the movement from belief to embodiment, inviting us to align our daily choices with the values we claim as our own. Through reflection and practical insight, we’ll consider how faithfulness, clarity, and consistent practice can help us build a spiritual life … Continue reading Living the Values: Faith Beyond the Moment
Embracing Possibility – Hope with Structure
There’s a difference between optimism and hope – when our community is an incubator of change and we view justice as long-haul faith, our spiritual imagination expands and we see what becomes possible with pluralism and spiritual backbone work together.
Possibility Without Burnout – Justice as a Sustainable Spiritual Practice
Burnout is not the price of faithful living. A sustainable faith calls us to act with courage, choose with discernment, and rest with intention as we practice justice in everyday life.
The Worship That Goes Wrong
On Sunday, March 22, we welcome the Rev. Tom Nalesnik back to our pulpit. Celebrating 25 years in ministry, Rev. Nalesnik brings a rich and varied background—from communications and advertising to parish and interim ministry, small group development, religious education, and writing for the web. In his sermon, inspired by a wild dream and the … Continue reading The Worship That Goes Wrong
Holding Tension Without Breaking – Paying Attention to One Another in a Fractured World
Staying present in tension is moral courage in miniature. Respecting another’s identity, culture, or viewpoint without the need to dominate or replace it allows the differences to coexist side-by-side, the elements to retain their meaning, and shows goodwill without sacrificing one’s own comfort or personal identity.
Paying Attention to Difference – The Spiritual Discipline of Curiosity
Difference doesn’t diminish us.
Handled with curiosity, it enlarges us.
Paying attention — truly paying attention — is a spiritual practice that deepens pluralism, reveals our gifts, and strengthens community.