As Unitarian Universalists we have a very iffy relationship with the concept of sin; and for good reasons! Many of us grew up in religious communities where the idea of sin was used to make us feel tainted and unworthy. What if, in our eagerness to feel justified, we have failed to pay attention to […]
On Father’s Day we hold up our fathers in appreciation and memory. We celebrate what they bring and have brought to our lives. How we view our fathers often depends on what we bring into focus. For many of us the sense of appreciation may feel mixed. On this Father’s Day we choose to bless […]
To paraphrase scientist Richard Dawkins: the blessing is that you are. Out of the countless possibilities that could take form, the universe became you. If being itself is a blessing, how are we to be the blessing that we are? Rev. Rob Hardies poses this as the challenging question: “How am I blessing the world?” […]
The theme for June is Blessing. Blessings are gifts given. On this Sunday, we count our blessings and practice appreciation. Appreciation recognizes the good that is in us and around us and then says thank you. We welcome New Members and recognize the Family Ministry Program as their program year concludes. Join us as we […]
We need creativity now more than ever. Join in celebrating creativity in all its forms – not just arts and crafts. Before, during and after the Sunday service we can experience the creative efforts of our UUFH members and friends. We will also explore the creative power of a collective dream. You will experience first-hand […]
That’s the title of a sermon by Rev. Peter Friedrichs. It’s also a paraphrase from lifetime Universalist minister Gordon McKeeman where he says that for freedom from to be whole it requires an accompanying sense of freedom for. “Freedom to do what? Freedom to be who? ‘Freedom to” is forward–looking, pulling us toward the future. […]
Mother’s Day gets us thinking about our families. Baby boomers grew up with that ideal of the functional family, the Cleavers. Our oldest myths paint a different picture of family: as a dysfunctional nest of vipers. Somewhere in between are the ones in which we’re raised. We project their contradictions into our own identities, as […]
Economist and Harvard professor Sendhil Mullainathan wrote, “Habits are powerful. Experimentation is an act of humility, an acknowledgment that there is simply no way of knowing without trying something different.” As we continue to address challenges in our world and personal lives, how will we know when our familiar way of doing things has run […]
Drawing on Cornel West’s definition of justice as what love looks like in public, we’ll explore how love can ground and sustain the work of Unitarian Universalists for social justice in a time of increased division and partisanship.” Rev. John L. Saxon is the Executive Director of the UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina. The […]
Pick a dualism. It’s the dominant and default way we see and organize our world(s). Right/wrong, me/you, us/them, conservative/liberal, Republican/Democrat, theist/atheist, this/that, either/or. But as much as we try to make it be otherwise, the world is not clear and clean and neat; reality is organic and relational. Poet David Whyte describes himself as being […]