How do we embody our values as UUs in an intentional community with people from diverse backgrounds? From culture to civic alignment, to even simply etiquette around expression, how are we stewarding the next generation while fully exploring what it means to be human? Presented by Honor Bell III (they/them), CRE and Admin. Fifth Sunday: … Continue reading What is Safety While In a Diverse Community?
“And we will care for each other / as the world around us unravels / And we will tend to the spark / of hope that lives within our grieving hearts.” These are the words that started our first FemFest Song Circle gathering one year ago and the group has met monthly ever since at … Continue reading Tending the Spark: A Women’s History Month Service
Long-time UUCP Member Dr. Dolly Haik-Adams Berthelot will present. Let’s all put our minds and hearts together to help our Beloved Community flourish in the future. Personal and professional perspective from a 40+ year PUUF/UUCP member, author, former journalist, teacher, professor, communication and organizational development consultant/workshop leader.
In this talk, Zachary Helton will share the story behind his new novel, Metta Valley Gospel—what it is, where it came from, and why it feels urgently needed in this cultural moment. What happens when we retell the stories that formed us? What new possibilities emerge when compassion becomes the center of the narrative? Join … Continue reading Reimagining the Sacred: Metta Valley Gospel and the “Good News” We Need
UUCP Member Joe Vinson will explore how a key part of American identity was weaponized to weaken society and exploit the vulnerable. Plus: Ministry Team Minute: Fuun and Fellowship
The Big Adventure, this thing we call… LIFE! Join us for a talk with Ric Kindle about his travels around the country with Hazel Nuts. He will share lessons learned from traveling and others ‘relearned’ about this Life!!
Presenter: Joe Vinson, UUCP Member. Politicians are more than happy to use the Bible as a proof text for discrimination, hatred, and violence in ways that are truly baffling. If America were truly a “Judeo-Christian nation,” what would that look like? What can the 8th century prophets teach us about reframing divine authority for social … Continue reading “Do justice”: the Prophetic Critique and reclaiming religious identity as an active force for good
Presenter: Dr. Lauren Anzaldo, Member UUCP. Although we are inundated with public proclamations of religiosity, we as a nation seem to have lost a shared moral order for determining right from wrong. Meanwhile, Unitarian Universalism provides a framework of shared values imbued with a living legacy of moral witness and prophetic voices. In this talk, Lauren … Continue reading A Sustaining Faith
“History of the Unitarian church in the USA from the Revolution through the union with the Universalists in 1961.” Mark Swaney (UUCP member since 2023) has taken a “deep dive” into the history of the Unitarians and Universalists since beginning his tenure with our congregation. He has provided several decades of information on several Sundays … Continue reading Unitarian History from the Revolution to UU
We talk a lot about being a “welcoming community”—welcoming the outsider, the stranger, even those we struggle to understand. But what if the first step toward that kind of welcome isn’t external? What if it starts with how we meet every part of ourselves? This talk will explore what happens when we stop pushing away … Continue reading The Art of Radical Welcome
