Sooner or later all of us come to realize that life comes with its share of chaos, disorder, struggle, and pain. To be able to live well means coming into some understanding of how to approach our lives and the world during the hard times. How can we continue to embrace hope during life’s most … Continue reading However Long the Night, the Dawn Will Break
The word “faith” makes many Unitarian Universalists uncomfortable. Yet a life devoid of faith in “something” (humanity, love, the future, etc.) can leave one feeling cynical, hopeless and in despair. What does it mean to be part of a faith community where is are no creeds or dogma?
Music: Pat Rodgers, piano
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the winter holiday season. This sermon explores some of the 10,000 ways we give thanks and say grace for family, friend, fellowship, and roasted Brussels sprouts.
Music: QUUF Salish Sea Choir, accompanied by Ikue Goldstein
This intergenerational service includes a Stone Soup enactment and information about the “Guest at Your Table” tradition.
Post-doom is what opens up when we accept what is inevitable, honor our grief, and invest in what is pro-future and soul-nourishing. Our guest speaker today is Rev. Michael Dowd, an esteemed author, pro-science ‘evangelist’ and winner of the UUA’s 2016 “Religious Humanist of the Year” Award. Today he will share about his “Post-Doom Regenerative Conversations” project. Click here to listen … Continue reading Not the Future We Ordered: Honoring Our Grief
When asked what it would mean to live a “good life,” a lot of people say “I just want to be happy.” In that response may lie the problem – or perhaps not the problem, but rather, the challenge.
We are living in times of economic uncertainty, mass shootings, and fear for the future. Our values call us to live in the reality of the heartbreak of our world, remembering that no one is outside the circle of love. At such a difficult time in history, what does Unitarian Universalism have to offer?
You wake up at the crossroads as the sun begins its forever arc across the broad heavens. Noon you think decisively East. Evening you feel a tug West. As the sun begins to sink below the horizon you resolve to flip a coin. This sermon stares hard at that airborne, spinning coin and wonders in … Continue reading Heads or Tails at the Crossroads
We are born thirsty and longing. In the beginning, our thirst is merely for survival, and is slaked by nursing. Later, the deeper longing aches at our center. Preoccupied with the process of learning, growing and discovering how to get along in the world, we forget the thirst. But it remains.
Barb Greve earned his Masters of Divinity at Starr King School for the Ministry in 2007. He currently serves as one of the volunteer Co-Moderators to the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. He has served as an intentional interim/consulting director of lifespan religious education to multiple Unitarian Universalist congregations as well as a chaplain intern in … Continue reading Families and Faith
