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We are living in unprecedented times. This was the case even before the coronavirus hit, but it’s even more true now. Big change is happening all around us, it’s been happening for a while now, and it’s calling us to ask big questions. Not just practical ones like, how do I keep myself and my … Continue reading Visitor Information
I have a tumultuous relationship with hope. I remember vividly the time when a friend had left the spiritual community (the ashram) that we had lived in together. For all its amazing and joyful components, the ashram was also a hard place to live at times. We worked 6 1/2 days a week for a … Continue reading Choosing Hope?
Order of Service 9:00 AMThe Irrational and Necessary Hope of the SeasonLed by Rev. DL Helfer Thank you to this morning’s Worship Team Pianist: Nonetta ShatakhtsianLay Pastoral Care Associate: Anthony WilsonUsher: Paula GreenwoodTech Host: Lance Collins Centering ThoughtLet us Gather in Love: Holding both Grief and Joy in this Holiday Season Chime Chalice … Continue reading Order of Service
Our December/January Share the Plate Recipient is Direct Action Rights and Equality (or DARE for short). Dare was first formed in Providence in 1986 as a grassroots organizing effort to better the lives of persons living (and struggling) in Providence. DARE’s mission is to organize low-income families living in communities of color for social, economic, … Continue reading Share the Plate – December 2025 and January 2026
Buddhist author and teacher, Pema Chödrön wrote, “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Her words are at the heart … Continue reading Cultivating Compassion
Author Toko-Pa Turner wrote: “Our longing for community is so powerful that it can drive us to join groups, relationships, or systems of belief that give a false impression of belonging. These places of false belonging grant us conditional membership, requiring us to cut parts of ourselves off in order to fit in.” How true! … Continue reading Fitting In or Belonging?
A long time ago, in the 1970s, there was a kind and curious woman named Lucile Shuck Longview. She was a Unitarian Universalist and loved her UU church in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1975, Lucile got to travel to Mexico City as a UU delegate to be part of the United Nations “Women’s Year” assembly. This … Continue reading TouchPoints September Wisdom Tale: The First UU Water Communion
Our September / October Share the Plate Recipient is; The Womxn Project Education Fund The Womxn Project Education Fund works through 3 pillars of activism to protect those whose reproductive rights are in danger. LGBTQIA+ discrimination, and who may not be able to receive the care they desire due to governmental constraints. We are building … Continue reading September – October Share the Plate 2025
Imagine if you were to take each of the minutes you lived in any given day and put them in one of two columns – one for those minutes where you were present in the reality of the moment and the others in a column for those moments where you were lost in your imagination … Continue reading Imagine…..
Taking ourselves too seriously is one of the great sorrows of our lives. Yes, intense, sad, unjust things are happening all the time, but the spirit loves to be lightened and humor is one of the greatest ways to do it. Studies show that humor heals and can sooth our stress – ask Dr. Patch … Continue reading Minister’s Musings on Joy
Our April Share the Plate Recipient; Climate Action RI is an action group focused specifically on climate change and what can be done on national, local, and individual levels. Based in Rhode Island, it is a local 350.org affiliate. Climate Action RI is committed to climate and environmental justice across all sectors to foster a … Continue reading April Share the Plate
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