UU presenter and well known singer-songwriter Tracy Spring will partner with Certified Clinical Musician and harpist Laurie Riley to talk about and demonstrate healing music from three perspectives: the benefits of music in our daily lives, how we can use music for self-healing, and how live acoustic music is used by trained professionals in hospitals … Continue reading The Healing Power of Music
It has been said that one’s chosen family can be the closest, and can show us who we truly are. So… whom do we choose for family, and whom do we reject? This service will explore the subject through images, music, and the spoken word, and reveal the prejudices and the heart behind our choices. … Continue reading Who Isn’t Family? Who Is?”
In a world where national pride overrides justice and inclusion, we will be exploring how UUs can make a difference. Click here to watch the service.
What are our conscious and subconscious ideas, attitudes, and actions toward the disabled, how do they affect those who are challenged by physical and other disabilities, and how do they impact our core values individually and as a community? Click here to watch the service. Click here to read the sermons.
Outspoken Humanist Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek television series, had a profound influence on Hollywood’s attitudes toward racial diversity, human rights, and the worth an dignity of all beings. In turn, entertainment media has influenced our society. His insistence on speaking out to the masses through his screenwriting has shown us that one … Continue reading To Boldly Go Where Unitarians Have Gone Before: Gene Roddenberry’s Influence Lives On
We take time once a year to give thanks and bless our animal companions in life – cats and dogs, birds, turtles and fish, and so many more! This special service also acknowledges that our lives are made richer by all the creatures that inhabit the Earth with us, not just those that live with … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals Service
To what degree are we capable of compassion? How can we be actively compassionate without personal sacrifice? Do others deserve our compassion? Can we be truly happy if we ignore the needs of others? What happens when we don’t help? Click here to listen to the reading and sermon. Click here to read the reading … Continue reading Practical Compassion
