Each year we mark our community coming back together as a congregation after the summer months. All are invited to bring a stone or token or small container of water – perhaps water from the tap that meets your daily thirst, or water brought back from distant travels. All will be mingled together and blessed, … Continue reading Ingathering and Water Communion 2025
Presenter: Nancy Hagman, member of UUCP. The UUA assists in providing a guiding light for UU congregations. Together, we are a powerful force. This service will highlight how we are providing 1) Faithful Defiance of Authoritarianism, 2) Funding Global LGBTQ freedom and 3) Reaffirmation that All People Have Inherent Worth and Inalienable Rights, the “Actions … Continue reading Actions of Immediate Witness
Presenter: Dr. Pat Gleich, Doctorate in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Sociology. How do you describe UU? (What does UU mean to and for you?) will be an interactive opportunity for the congregation to learn about the many and different ways we understand Unitarian Universalism. Building on a recent post on the UUA facebook page, … Continue reading How do you describe UU? (What does UU mean to and for you?)
Presenter: Mark Swaney (he,him), Member of the UUCP since August 2023. Mark’s presentation will cover the development of the UU’s in the early American church, the controversies of the Unitarians in the 1800’s and the church history through the 20th century.
As Rev. Maggie Lovins describes the service: This ritual was originally created by Czechoslovakian Unitarian minister Norbert Capek in 1923. Come, enjoy the beauty and olfactory splendor of our Flower Communion service as we celebrate the renewal of life and hope that is at the heart of the Easter and Passover season! You are invited … Continue reading Flower Communion 2025
Mark Swaney, UUCP Member, will present the history of the Unitarian Universalist churches: their origin and development through the Reformation, and the history up through their founding in the USA. This presentation will be a “sketch history” discussing the main points of our heritage.
Presenter: Audrey Preston, an active, engaging member of UUCP Our Bread Communion is one of three UUCP annual celebrations. Similar to our congregants, breads come in a wide variety with various histories. Every civilization that has ever lived on the earth has made some type of bread. This communion service reminds us that we all … Continue reading 2024 Bread Communion
CHANGED: Presenter: Zach Helton, filling in for Pat Quinn.
“Where Did the Principles Go?: Unpacking the UUA’s ‘New’ Values,” presented by Claire Helton, UUCP Member. For many Unitarian Universalists, the “principles and sources” have been a foundational aspect of what it means to identify as a UU. This summer, the General Assembly of the UUA (our national denominational body) voted to adopt a new … Continue reading Where Did the Principles Go?
“Ralph Waldo Emerson: Renegade Unitarian,” presented by Thom Botsford, UUCP friend. A new biography of Emerson — “Glad To the Brink of Fear” by James Marcus– reminds us that the great thinker and man of letters was considerably ahead of his time compared with the Unitarians of his day and much at odds with religious … Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson: Renegade Unitarian
