Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
From our 7pm Christmas Eve service, hear Henry Amick read the Christmas story from Luke, and Kate give a sermon titled “A Metanoia Christmas”. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon.
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Children’s Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
This service is geared to children, their parents and grandparents. Each child will receive his or her own candle for the service. If you are in the pageant, please come to the Saturday 3-5pm rehearsal and arrive by 4:30 on Christmas Eve.
Where is the Star?
If there were a bright star shining in the East right now, where might it be directing us? What kind journey would it be calling us to begin?
The Darkest Evening of the Year
We often celebrate winter solstice for the returning of the light, but the darkness offers its own profound gifts. In the cycles of the natural world, we see the deep need for a time of rest, reflection, and integration, and by standing fully in the darkness we can prepare ourselves to see more clearly in … Continue reading The Darkest Evening of the Year
Love: The Humble Resolve to Begin
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced [them], not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning: to be a beginner.” As winter darkness deepens during the advent season, let’s join those three wise men trudging across the desert in search of a new … Continue reading Love: The Humble Resolve to Begin
Awakening the Light
Drawing on key ideas from his new book Awakening the Soul, Michael Meade will look at the loss of soul and the need for “lived truth” in modern life Click here to listen to the reading and sermon for the first service. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon for the second service.
Evolution Sunday: Lessons from a Killdeer
We humans are complex beings, with two decidedly different instincts: to compete against and to collaborate with one another. On this 159th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, QUUF member and Evolutionary Biologist Stan Cummings joins Kate Lore for an exploration of human evolution.
The Grateful Journey
Can we choose a life full of Gratitude? What happens to us when we focus and explore this rewarding path of Gratitude? Join Doug Ross for this pre-Thanksgiving Gratitude celebration. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon.
Song of the Soul
The soul is a messy thing for Unitarian Universalists. We are burdened by whatever childhood definitions or images of soul we have had imposed upon us or picked up by osmosis. But what if the soul was not a thing but a quality or dimension of experiencing life and ourselves?
Music: QUUF choir conducted by Marj Iuro and accompanied by Ikue Goldstein
Would If I Could
In her best-selling memoir Pastrix, Lutheran minister Nadia Bolz-Weber writes, “As much as I desperately wanted to be a Unitarian, I couldn’t, because what I needed was a specific divine source of reconciliation and wholeness, a source that is connected to me in love, but does not come from inside me.” This sermon imagines a … Continue reading Would If I Could