With summer travels to visit family and family reunions, many of us have unfinished business stirred up in us. How can we take these opportunities to come to terms with the experiences we had in our families of origin, to heal old wounds, and to cultivate new levels of relationship with those important people from … Continue reading Going Home Again
General Assembly is upon us! It is a time when Unitarian Universalists gather together from far and wide to celebrate and search for (responsibly, of course) what it means to be UU. Please join me for a short history of Unitarian Universalism and my personal take on our uncommon denomination as someone who was raised … Continue reading Why are You UU?
How does being in community help us navigate turbulent times? Where is the delicate creative balance between positive and negative stress in our lives? Between challenge and opportunity?
On the Sunday of Pensacola’s big LGBT beach celebration, we will explore the politics of queerness. As a word full of history and community, “queer” has accumulated a lens that invites us to be better allies and better humans to one another. Join us as we make space for new futures, new community and new … Continue reading Show me your queerness
When you find a community in which you feel you belong, what are the benefits and responsibilities that keep you engaged? The covenant, non-creedal tradition of Unitarian Universalism asks us to walk together in a continual search for truth and meaning, learning and doing more with our combined perspectives than anything we can possibly accomplish … Continue reading Lean on Me
In our annual Mother’s Day service for all ages, we will celebrate the resilient creativity of the maternal spirit at work in all of our lives. The service will include a Teacher Appreciation ceremony.
Many of us are becoming increasingly aware of a clash of worldviews happening all around us. How do we make sense of it? What is the connection between our core values and the lenses through which we see the world?
On May 1st, workers across the world gather to remember the Haymarket affair, a labor protest turned violent by the state. The workers during May 1886 were fighting for the eight-hour work day. What does it mean to see ourselves, as individuals and a church, as part of a class struggle? And what does that … Continue reading Thank God for the Workers!
Breaking Bread and Giving Thanks If ever we needed to come together, it would be now. As we companion one another through these bewildering times, we remember the origin of the word companion. Com, meaning with, and Panis, Latin for bread. Literally, “one who breaks bread with another.” Although we cannot be physically together to … Continue reading LIVE Zoom Service Nov 22
