Rev. Juniper Meadows has served as our minister since May 2022.
They say it’s where the heart is. This week and next, Rev. Juniper will be home in East Tennessee visiting family, but she will also be leaving us a message for us while she’s gone; one exploring the nature of the home, the hearth, and the heart of our lives. What makes a house a … Continue reading Home
The scholar of Buddhism and Environmental Activist Joanna Macy who passed earlier this month spoke of hope not as something we casually possess but as something we do; the process by which we act on behalf of that which is greater than us, at once feeling and fueled by a living, breathing, rooted experience of … Continue reading To Belong to the World: Deep Ecology and the Hope We Live
This week on July 14th, a flower was taken from the world’s bouquet of poets as Andrea Gibson passed from this world into the next. Their life and poetry have touched our tradition, from coffee shop poetry slams to our reading the poem “Ashes” every year at Trans Day of Visibility. This Sunday, let us … Continue reading Lord of the Butterflies: The Life of Andrea Gibson
Join us this Sunday for the UU tradition of Flower Communion. You are welcome to bring a flower to share. Cass Opal and Rev. Juniper Meadows will lead us!
In Episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Rodenberry put to screen one of the most iconic explorations of artificial intelligence and its implications as the crew grapples with the personage of Data, an android crewmember; a synthetic… person? This and other fictional considerations of consciousness, agency, and will are increasingly relevant in … Continue reading AI & the Measure of a Mind (Video)
All people have a trick up their sleeve, behind their awareness; a field of the mind upon which ideas are drawn, pictures arise, connections are made, and worlds are woven. Our species capacity for imagination has been rendered many ways; mere fancy or the ground of perception, but for all its mysteries it remains one … Continue reading Imagination: Everyday Arcana (Video)
May the Force Be With You: Rebellion, Resistance, and the Power of Imagination Few films have left as indelible a mark on the popular imagination as George Lucas’s Star Wars franchise. Building off old heroic motifs set within a fantastical intergalactic backdrop, Star Wars explores empire, resistance, and the subtle powers that guide all beings. … Continue reading Rebellion, Resistance, and the Power of Imagination
The Earth is home to all we love, all we know, and we are part of it all. This Sunday we reaffirm our Love for our common home and recommit to its care, making room for grief beneath a twisting climate and seeking a path forward as collective stewards of this precious planet.
This Easter, we celebrate resurrection as a living metaphor for liberation. As spring returns and life rises green again we reflect on the many ways we are called to roll away the stones of stigma, shame, and unjust prohibition. In a fun convergence of calendar and spirit, this year’s Easter also falls on 4/20—a day … Continue reading A Very Special Easter Service: 4/20 Edition (Video)
As Unitarian Universalists, we root our faith in Love beyond dogma; beyond the rigid lines of lock step that would divide us from our neighbors and the world. In a time marked by the cruel and reckless disappearing of legal occupants of this country, the termination of visas, and the rounding up of simple tourists, … Continue reading Sharing Sanctuary
