Christmas Pageant Homily By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras 12/17/17 Throughout time, we humans have told stories. We tell stories to make meaning, we tell them to remember the past, we tell them to share wisdom, and to help people connect with hope when we can’t quite seem to find it on our own. This time … Continue reading Many Windows One Light – A Holiday Pageant

Being Hope By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church December 10, 2017 First Reading: “Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in [all of us]. Those who hope…can no longer put up with reality … Continue reading Being Hope

Two services at 9AM and 11AM  – Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh, LICSW is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist community minister and shares a private justice consulting and spiritual coaching practice with her husband, Rev. Clyde Grubbs known as Tuckerman Creative Ministries for Justice & Healing.  She also has worked as a scholar activist for many years … Continue reading Risking Faith Conversations Across Cultural Divides

One Service at 9am – Childcare for ages 6 months – 4 years old at 9:00am, Religious Education:  all Children and Youth together for pageant preparation, the Choir will be singing at 9AM   Download QR

Two services at 9am and 11am – Led by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras and Debra Zagaeski, DRE    “Gratitude, that’s nice.” We often think of gratitude as pleasant or quaint, like writing a thank you note to your great aunt. But what if practicing gratitude were a doorway to something more, something fresh – an opening … Continue reading Radical Gratitude

  You Are Enough Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church November 12, 2017 First Reading “The Blessings of Imperfection”, G. Peter Fleck In his book The Medusa and the Snail, the biologist Lewis Thomas observes that we humans “are built to make mistakes, coded for error,” that is, for being imperfect. “We learn, as we … Continue reading You Are Enough

What would Jesus Buy? By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church November 9, 2017 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxjl2ERhnI   Sermon: I love Reverend Billy. Okay, so I don’t know him personnally, but I love him. I love the way he turns the flash and charisma and overstatedness of televangelism upside down and backwards. Rev Billy is the … Continue reading What Would Jesus Buy?

One service at 9:00am for all ages – While we often gain strength and courage from those who have gone before, facing the loss of loved ones often requires some courage too. As we approach All Saints and All Souls day in November, we will take this opportunity to recognize and appreciate those we love … Continue reading All Saints and All Souls