Supporting Service: Rev. Dara Olandt, Minister; Ellen Beeler, Worship Associate Artist Jenny Odell writes “Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily.” In the face … Continue reading Do Nothing
SPECIAL JOINT SERVICEwith Guest Bruce Pollack-Johnson, PhD UU Petaluma please join the service at 10:30amNOTE: Please use a special zoom link below for this particular service! (It is a different link than our regular worship link.) A joint service with First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma, UU Fellowship of Sunnyvale, Mission Peak UU Congregation, and the … Continue reading Why an 8th Principal?
All month long we’ll be exploring the theme of “Cultivating relationship”. This morning we ask: what does it mean to engage “across” different generations — in our families, workplaces, in the larger culture and our congregation? Do generations collide? Connect? Enrich one another? What’s the relationship between generations? Gather for this joyful service of inquiry … Continue reading Across the Generations
10:30am Gather for Multigenerational Worship Service on ZOOM 10:30am-11:15am We hold our annual multi-generational service online this year! Please use our regular UUP worship link. Feel free to send a picture of yourself or family next to a body water or a piece of earth (rock, mountain) that holds meaning for you! We will share … Continue reading Water & Stones, Past and Present: The Future is Fluid
IN LIEU OF OUR REGULAR WORSHIP UUP Celebration, Community Gathering & Engagement Fair! At our new building! 16 5th St, Petaluma, CA. In-Person Outdoor Event! Stay the whole time or come by for a short while. Enjoy music, activities for all ages, and find ways to get engaged at UUP. There will be a brief Centering … Continue reading SUNDAY SEPT. 19th
Sunday, September 12th, 10:30am Rev. Dara Olandt, Andrew Richardson, Worship Associate, Will Johnson, Accompanist The 10 day period that extends from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur is known collectively as the Days of Awe, a time of introspection and repair in Jewish tradition. What can it mean when all of “the gates” that separate us … Continue reading When All The Gates Are Open – Season of Transforming, The Days of Awe
Sunday, August 5th 10:30amRev. Dara Olandt George Beeler, Worship Associate Will Johnson, Accompanist The word “economy” has roots in the Greek word, oikonomia, meaning “household management”. What could it mean to re-think social economies by prioritizing labor and love? All are welcome for this service affirming the worth, power and dignity of human labor.
With love at the center, there is always room. These words from activist and author Adrienne Maree Brown invite all of us to expand our imagination when it comes to creating a more just and equitable world. What does a world with love at the center look like?What can we nurture in community that moves us … Continue reading Centering Love, Cultivating Liberation
From “new” techniques to daily planners, tools for helping people “manage” time abound. Today we explore our relationship to time itself. Do you imagine time as linear — or do you conceive of time a different way? Are you always harried — or do you have an innately spacious relationship to time? What can it mean to move … Continue reading Time and Being
What can be (re)made from the “old stuff” or the scraps? Let’s explore “compost” as a surprising nutrient for our theological imaginations.
