This month’s theme is traditions. The guide suggests that our call is to “make tradition more than a memory” and “allow tradition to be a gift.” This Mother’s Day please join me in thinking about how we might embrace and “mother” tradition.
“What does it mean to be a people of faith?” asks the Soul Matters guide for February. The packet begins by offering two quotes: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole stair case,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and “I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, […]
This Sunday marks the first Sunday of the Christian season of Advent, the time of preparation which leads up to Christmas. Advent is a season of anticipation and expectation. It carries with it a sense of tradition from the past and anticipation of the future, as well as the tension between living in the “already” […]
“Just is” is what should be. Justice should just be. Everywhere. We work for justice and then moments break through; something more than we expect happens gracefully, or easily. Amidst pleasant surprise. Maybe such moments of grace happen more often than we think. Perhaps we “just” fail to notice. What if we shift from a […]
Graceworks could describe us if we were more comfortable with the word “grace.” This congregation is one of those rare places where we encounter, notice and celebrate the grace and “giftedness of life.” Graceful moments are those moments of right living we “[don’t necessarily] expect, earn, create of even deserve.” And yet still they come […]
As we enter into yet another political season in our highly partisan world, what gifts might we as people of faith, as Unitarian Universalists, offer? Join me in exploring how our unique faith community might offer us the tools for navigating this season, and even for leading others to engage rather than “dispute loud and […]
The story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem is described in all four canonical gospels. The story is the gospel writers’ modern embrace of the ancient Jewish prophecy for the messiah—to enter the city riding on a donkey. According to tradition, palm fronds were placed before him, hence Palm Sunday. though our Unitarian and Universalist forebears understood and embraced […]
Rev. Judith Long, Vicki Benavides On this Sunday before Thanksgiving we pause to practice gratitude for this day and this community and for all that we have and share. William Blake wrote “Gratitude is heaven itself.” This multigenerational worship begins the UUSC Guest At Your Table Program. Speakers: Paul Shoemaker, Konrad Sanders, Tanya Blackford