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To view the Lighting UP the Stillness: A Participatory Christmas Pageant please click here or click on the image to the left. Click here for Order of Service12-20-20 Download QR
To play video click on the image or click here. First Reading: Quote – Saint Teresa of Avila You need not go to heaven to see God; nor need you speak loud, as if God were far away; nor need you cry for wings like a dove to fly to God. Only be in silence, … Continue reading Worship Sunday Dec. 13, 2020 10:00 AM – Find a Stillness
“Hope Against Despair.” Reading, viewing, and hearing about the horrific things that are happening in our world today, it is difficult for us to keep a positive attitude. So what can we do? Today’s service will focus on the ways our mindset, actions, and Universalist tradition can help us find a way. Click on the image or here for … Continue reading Worship Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 10:00 AM
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
This month’s theme is healing. In a year of firsts we will, for the first time, celebrate Thanksgiving in the middle of a pandemic. But we can still celebrate! And we will still offer our traditional Thanksgiving cornbread communion. This special service will include the expected as well as the unexpected, as we reflect on … Continue reading Worship Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 10:00 AM – Cornbread Communion – Building a New World
Broken Hallelujah By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras To watch video please click on the image to the left. Read Sermon below Reading: by Nancy Shaffer https://www.questformeaning.org/spiritual-themes/healing-forgiveness-spiritual-topic/mending-nancy-shaffer/ Sermon Eight years ago, I led a memorial service for a young woman who I will never forget. She wasn’t a member of this congregation, in … Continue reading Worship Sunday November 15, 2020 10:00 AM – Broken Hallelujah
It has been a week filled with emotion: disappointment, relief, anxiety, uncertainty and more. Our theme this month is Healing. Let’s gather in that spirit to re-ground ourselves in what is true, re-connect with what is hopeful and re-imagine what is possible now. This service appropriate for all ages. Click on arrow to see the … Continue reading Healing – November 8, 2020 10:00 AM
The Healing Power of Extraordinary Hope By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church November 11, 2020 To view video click on arrow. Sermon: I was at a minister’s retreat recently where a colleague talked about something called liminal space. It’s a word ministers like to use about in between times. “Times … Continue reading Worship, Sunday November 1, 2020 – 10:00 AM The Healing Power of “Extra ordinary” Hope
All too often, our relationships falter because we’re not really “hearing” one another (in some deep sense). Deep listening is a technique – or, better, a way of life – that helps us hear by learning to listen fully with our hearts, listen without judging or jumping to conclusions or marshalling counter-arguments. We could really … Continue reading Worship Sunday, October 25, 2020 10:00 AM “Not Hearing.”
Listening as “Holy Ground” in a time of Black Lives Matter By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church October 18, 2020 Story: “Take Off Your Shoes” One of the greatest adventures stories of all time is a dramatic biblical escape story set over 3000 years ago. It’s called the Exodus and it ends with with … Continue reading Worship Sunday, October 18, 2020 10:00 AM – Listening as “Holy Ground” in a time of Black Lives Matter
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