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December 29th – Greta Thunberg and The Healing Fire of Loving Action – Fire Communion Service

The politics of climate action are entrenched and complicated, and we are just beginning to understand how the way we live has come to threaten life on earth. Together we will take a look at the awesome impact her example has had worldwide, and explore how ancient wisdom traditions and the wellbeing of indigenous people … Continue reading December 29th – Greta Thunberg and The Healing Fire of Loving Action – Fire Communion Service

December 22nd: The Last Straw – All Ages – One Service 9AM

Join us for this year’s all-ages Christmas pageant, as Westminster children and youth bring to life a unique retelling of the Christmas story entitled “The Last Straw”. A reluctant camel is tasked with bringing gifts to the newborn Jesus, but can he make the long trip while carrying a growing number of parcels? Does he … Continue reading December 22nd: The Last Straw – All Ages – One Service 9AM

December 15: Eyes to See and Hearts to Feel

First Reading from “Make Time for Awe” By Kathleen Vohs Awe is quite threatening in certain ways, and something that is challenging and unwelcome can border on fear….The experience of awe is one where you are temporarily off-kilter in terms of your understanding of the world. People mostly walk around with a sense of knowing … Continue reading December 15: Eyes to See and Hearts to Feel

December 8th: Amazing Grace

Reading: Grounded – Finding God in the World – A Spiritual Revolution, by Diana Butler Bass “In the twentieth century, Jewish theologian Martin Buber explained that most arenas of human activity  –politics, economics, and education–  actually alienate us, because they treat human beings as objects. Modern culture has trained us to distance ourselves from one … Continue reading December 8th: Amazing Grace

A Portable Sanctuary

Reverend Helfer is a Unitarian Universalist minister, a gender queer individual, and a believer in truth-telling. Reverend DL serves the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County, in Peace Dale, RI. • Two services at 9am and 11am, with the choir at 11am • Nursery care available at 9am for 6 months. to 4 years old … Continue reading A Portable Sanctuary

There is Room at the Table (this service includes a surprise!)

Story: In God’s Hands by Larry Kushner and Gary Schmidt https://books.google.com/books?id=X99bPugixuEC Homily: It might have kept going that way indefinitely, the story tells us.  Jacob, the rich man, coming to synagogue, falling asleep, waking up and walking home. And David, the poor man, coming and cleaning and going home hungry.  Neither, looking for miracles. Both, … Continue reading There is Room at the Table (this service includes a surprise!)

From Attention to Intention: Building Foundations Under our Dreams

“You have built castles in the air. Now build foundations under them.” What we pay attention to has an impact. What we notice, where we look, who we see all affects what we end up doing. How might focusing our attention help us bring our loftiest intentions to life? How might we bring all of our dreams a little closer to reality?

Where Your Heart Is

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21, Christian Bible. We pay attention to money: our bank accounts, our retirement funds, whether we have enough for a vacation or that smartphone. And we pay attention to our hearts: whether we are sad or happy, frustrated or serene. But what might we learn when we focus not just on one or the other, but on the relationship between the two? How are our “treasure” and our hearts connected? And what might that show us about how to live our lives?