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December 6: Trailblazers and Covenant Keepers

11/19/2015

Our theme for worship this Sunday is “Trailblazers and Covenant Keepers.” This is the second in a series of covenant-themed services that will be offered intermittently throughout the year as we seek to deepen our understanding and embodiment of this central practice of our religious tradition. We hope you will join us!

“Our ancestors teach us that religious life thrives at the intersection of self, community and Spirit, and that the beauty and fullness of faithful lives emerge everywhere these dimensions meet and walk together. Covenant is the path along which meaning is discovered, practiced and shared. The rich landscape of covenant helps us understand how to discover, how to practice, and how to share.” ~ Sue Phillips

November 29: Pilgrims Always

11/18/2015

“Pilgrims Always” is the thematic focus for our worship this coming Sunday, November 29. We hope you will join us!

“Unitarian Universalists often say things like, “Our lives are spiritual journeys.” But we don’t always explain what this means. Where some religions offer specific paths toward specific goals (which makes the journey relatively easy to explain), others, like Unitarian Universalism, are more open-ended, with directions less specified and paths more numerous, with spontaneity, creativity and curiosity more valued than the discipline of sticking to pre-ordained rules.
This open-endedness does make the typical Unitarian Universalist spiritual journey more difficult to explain. (In fact, it makes the word typical more or less useless.) But even so, I think it’s important that we find ways of articulating what we mean when we say, “Our lives are spiritual journeys.” ~ Joshua Mason Pawelek

November 22: What Will You Bring to the Feast?

11/18/2015

Our worship theme for a very special multigenerational service this Sunday, November 22, is “What Will You Bring to the Feast?” We will of course be answering this question metaphorically, as in what gifts do we bring to the table of our fellowship – how generous are we in our sharing together as a community of faith? This service will be followed immediately by the (more literal) annual celebration of our Harvest Feast in the library annex (see article below). All are welcome! We hope you will join us – “even if you’ve forgotten your vows a thousand times, come, yet again, come!” Gotta love that Rumi…

November 15: Behaving, Believing, Belonging

11/5/2015

Our worship theme focus for much of the remainder of November and part of December will be “Covenant and Belonging.” We begin this Sunday, November 15 with “Behaving, Believing, Belonging” – we hope you will join us!

“There may be something incredibly naïve about the notion that we can have meaningful human relationships without any mandated behavior or commonly-held belief. Perhaps if it were more easily accomplished, divorce lawyers would find themselves out of work. Yet we try as a religious community to live into this noble ideal. We do not say that behavior and belief are unimportant, but we do say—through word and deed—that our distinguishing characteristic is that we are a people who belong to one another. We covenant together, making voluntary commitments with our spiritual neighbors, viewing one another as kindred spirits, and interacting with love and compassion.” ~ Stefan Jonasson

December 6: Trailblazers and Covenant Keepers

November 29: Pilgrims Always

November 22: What Will You Bring to the Feast?

November 15: Behaving, Believing, Belonging

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