November 2, 2025:
Day of the Dead
Rev. Drew Frantz
This Sunday we perform our yearly ritual of honoring the ancestors. In keeping with the various traditions of All Souls Day, Samhain, and Día de Muertos, we take this day to remember those who have died and to welcome them as living spirits. What do we have to learn from the ancestors? How can we keep alive their memory and honor them?
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November 9, 2025:
God is a River
Rev. Drew Frantz
In Unitarian Universalism we encompass many beliefs about the nature of – and the existence of – the divine. Does God exist? Where and what is God? One vision of the divine, blending Religious Naturalism and Taoism, is that God is a river. Let’s see how this idea challenges or reinforces your own notion of mystery and of ultimate reality.
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November 16, 2025:
Guest at Your Table
Rev. Drew Frantz
Guest at Your Table is a program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to partner with human rights organizations domestically and abroad. This year Guest at Your Table supports an LGBTQ+ asylum house in Pennsylvania; a human rights organization in Central America; a commune for Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic; and a river defender in Honduras. In our worship service we celebrate the good work being done; and we recognize that together we create greater justice and greater joy.
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November 23, 2025:
Nurturing Gratitude
Rev. Drew Frantz
November is the season of gratitude, and we are reminded that gratitude is a practice, not a feeling. Gratitude is especially important during hard times, and the greatest gratitude is for people, not things. How are you practicing a sense of gratitude in these hard times? Who are the people who have enriched and blessed your life?
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November 30, 2025:
Embodying Abundance
Rev. Laura McBride
We need ways to reopen ourselves to beauty and gratitude—and to see not only the proverbial glass being half full but also the whole glass… This is not a Pollyannaish optimism. Seeing the beautiful glass does not ignore life’s harsh realities… This outlook insists on seeking and finding the best in our lives and the lives of those around us… It invites us to embody abundance even in those mud-puddle times. As the French-Swiss poet Jean Petit-Senn wrote, ‘it’s not what we have that constitutes our abundance, but what we appreciate.’...
Order of Service
Day of the Dead
Rev. Drew Frantz
This Sunday we perform our yearly ritual of honoring the ancestors. In keeping with the various traditions of All Souls Day, Samhain, and Día de Muertos, we take this day to remember those who have died and to welcome them as living spirits. What do we have to learn from the ancestors? How can we keep alive their memory and honor them?
Order of Service
Sermon
November 9, 2025:
God is a River
Rev. Drew Frantz
In Unitarian Universalism we encompass many beliefs about the nature of – and the existence of – the divine. Does God exist? Where and what is God? One vision of the divine, blending Religious Naturalism and Taoism, is that God is a river. Let’s see how this idea challenges or reinforces your own notion of mystery and of ultimate reality.
Order of Service
Sermon
November 16, 2025:
Guest at Your Table
Rev. Drew Frantz
Guest at Your Table is a program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to partner with human rights organizations domestically and abroad. This year Guest at Your Table supports an LGBTQ+ asylum house in Pennsylvania; a human rights organization in Central America; a commune for Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic; and a river defender in Honduras. In our worship service we celebrate the good work being done; and we recognize that together we create greater justice and greater joy.
Order of Service
Sermon
Safer Inclusion Policy
November 23, 2025:
Nurturing Gratitude
Rev. Drew Frantz
November is the season of gratitude, and we are reminded that gratitude is a practice, not a feeling. Gratitude is especially important during hard times, and the greatest gratitude is for people, not things. How are you practicing a sense of gratitude in these hard times? Who are the people who have enriched and blessed your life?
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Sermon
November 30, 2025:
Embodying Abundance
Rev. Laura McBride
We need ways to reopen ourselves to beauty and gratitude—and to see not only the proverbial glass being half full but also the whole glass… This is not a Pollyannaish optimism. Seeing the beautiful glass does not ignore life’s harsh realities… This outlook insists on seeking and finding the best in our lives and the lives of those around us… It invites us to embody abundance even in those mud-puddle times. As the French-Swiss poet Jean Petit-Senn wrote, ‘it’s not what we have that constitutes our abundance, but what we appreciate.’...
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