What is an Installation?  An installation service formally celebrates the covenantal relationship between a minister and the congregation that has called the minister. Installation services most often occur within the first year of a settlement and marks both the minister’s and the congregation’s successful completion of the ministerial search process which included months of self-examination, … Continue reading Rev. Deborah Bennett Installation Service

To view the service, please click on the arrow. As we consider the global environmental crisis, an old question comes back. Rev. Schade proposes a moral grounding for the future.  

Reckoning It is said that America is facing its racial reckoning. What exactly is a “reckoning?” Click here for the link service video. Or click on image. Click here for Order of Service 11-29-20       Download QR 🡻

What happens to a culture that loses 40,000 people in one month to a single cause? One service at 10:00 am Click here for link to service. Click here for link to the Order of Service. Download QR 🡻

Unitarian Universalism Today: the state of our faith and its yearning for wholeness.   In 1997, the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly passed the Business Resolution calling upon the Unitarian Universalist Association, in all its many forms, an anti-racist and multi-cultural organization. In time, that phrase “anti-racist and multi-cultural’ was a broadened to be “anti-racist, anti-oppressive, … Continue reading The Present Moment: Everything Will Change Again

What UU’s learned through the process of the Welcoming Congregation, not only about our LGBTQIA co-religionists, but also about the process of change. AND THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED SOME MORE   Adrienne Rich tried to point out that there was a moment  “when the name of compassion was changed to the name of guilt, when the … Continue reading And then everything changed some more…

That sustaining, creating, and transforming current that carried Unitarian Universalism through the 60’s seems to have vanished in the early 1970’s. But it re-emerged from a new source: the Women’s Reformation of Unitarian Universalism. It changed almost everything. The Women’s Reformation   In January 1970, right at the beginning of the decade of the 70’s, … Continue reading The Great Reformation

In 1961, the Unitarians and the Universalists merged into the present Unitarian Universalist Association. It was also the year that John Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States, proclaiming that “the torch has been passed to a new generation.”  The first sit-ins resisting segregation at lunch counters had just begun the previous summer. … Continue reading Dancing in Rhythm with the Times

An elephant figures in one of Unitarian Universalism’s most sacred stories, a story that guided us when we needed some wisdom very badly. But has the story worn well over decades? What have we learned since then? (And no, this is not a sermon about the Republican Party?)   Text: The Blind Men and the … Continue reading What Do You Know About Elephants

Unitarian Universalist theology is becoming centered on Love as its organizing principle. Let’s dig into this idea! Two Services 9am & 11am Nursery care available for babies 4mos to 4 years old at first service Download QR 🡻