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.
Shifting times call us to be creatures of adaptation. What is the link between adaptation & creativity? Let’s find out! All are welcome for this service of inquiry and hope.
As UUP prepares to move into a new home, it’s a good time to think about what it means to be a good neighbor, how good neighborhoods are built, and why they matter.
Surveying benchmarks are meant to be points with known elevation and/or location and are meant to be returned to in the future. Even if you find a benchmark though, it isn’t necessarily where the last person who found it said it was. I want, more than anything, to go back to the normal I knew … Continue reading Benchmarks
A UU Round Robin Service; UUP Hosts the UU North Bay Round Robin Service Rev. Dara Olandt, Karen Mansergh Worship Associate, Will Johnson, Accompanist & UUP Singers Awe and wonder, joy and delight, frustration, pain, disappointment, sorrow — our lives are full, and the past year has held much. Today we ask: “how are you … Continue reading I Brought My Spirit to the Sea
Do you fly the American Flag at home? Do you have assumptions about those who do? It is said that one can know how many Republicans live in a neighborhood by the prevalence of American Flags. How do we, as members of a progressive, liberal faith, demonstrate devotion to our country? Come, let us consider … Continue reading Patriotism: A UU Perspective
This morning, we explore “play” as a life-giving and life-renewing spiritual practice! All are welcome for this service of celebration and hope. Rev. Dara Olandt, Minister; Ellen Beeler, Worship Associate; Will Johnson, Accompanist
Rev. Dara Olandt; Andrew Richardson, Worship Associate; with additional members of the Worship Associates Program; Will Johnson, Accompanist This Sunday we honor and acknowledge Memorial Day, lifting forward letters written in wartime. We’ll share voices communicating the power of love across space, time, distance and conflict. All are welcome for this service of memory and … Continue reading Love Letters We Wrote While the World went to War
