Rev. Dara Olandt with Francis Prevot, Worship Associate, and Will Johnson, accompanist, lead worship focused on our monthly theme for February, Beloved Community. What does the term “Beloved Community” mean? Where does it come from? What does it call us towards? All are welcome for this service of exploration and justice-seeking! Note: This will be … Continue reading Beloved Community
This Sunday’s worship will feature poems by Native American Duane BigEagle (Osage) that he read at The Fire Thieves, an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck (Cherokee), sponsored by the American Academy of Poets, Bird & Beckett Books in SF, and the SF Arts Commission. These poems hold his Osage ancestral … Continue reading Sense of Place
UUP services return! Join us for a live Zoom service, in which we will share with each other our hopes for this year. The beginning of August is Lammas or Lughnasadh on the pagan Wheel of the Year, a time for the first wheat harvest or, here in California, a time when gardens and trees … Continue reading What Will We Harvest?
This Mother’s Day, let’s reflect on love — love for our children, love for our parents, love for ourselves, love for each other. A tribute to the power of love and to keeping our hearts open. We will send out the link to the viewing gathering via email. (Sign up for our email list.) Afterward, … Continue reading Learning To Love the World
The Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion was first celebrated in 1923 by Dr. Norbert Čapek, who founded the modern Unitarian movement in Czechoslovakia. He was inspired one day by the riot of spring around him, and he asked church members to each bring in a flower. Gathered together, the flowers remind us, “These flowers are like … Continue reading Flower Communion
Come hear a service featuring Emma’s Revolution, the dynamic, award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O, whose songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, and covered by Holly Near. With beautiful harmonies and genre-defying eclecticism, Emma’s Revolution delivers the energy and strength of their convictions, in an uprising of truth … Continue reading Emma’s Revolution Sings
Please join us as we say farewell to 2019. We will reflect back on the year just past, and look forward to the year to come. This is our annual Rose Communion & Letter Writing service where we can gently try to let go of what belongs to the past, and look forward to the … Continue reading The Turning of the Year
We come together in community to share, mourn, celebrate, and play. How do we cultivate community as part of our spiritual practices? How do we find and share the awe in each other and in our relationships themselves? Come join us as we explore what it might mean to be a community of awe. Worship … Continue reading In the Shelter of Each Other
Please join us Sunday, November 24 for Stone Soup Sunday: our traditional Thanksgiving service. We gather to hear the classic tale of community and generosity. What does it mean to be a people of abundance? How can we balance the abundant demands on our time and resources? Is it possible to balance “too much” with … Continue reading Stone Soup Sunday
Is there a link between a just, healthy and “whole” community and one where its people have opportunities to not just visit parks and farms but actually participate in their care? The local public benefit corporation, LandPaths, and its director of the past 22+ years believe these things are inextricable. Craig Anderson will offer a candid reflection … Continue reading Linking Health with Just Land Stewardship
