Rev. Juniper Meadows has served as our minister since May 2022.
The idea of the “monster” is a cultural touch point that transcends all particulars. One would be hard pressed to consider a people who do not have some stories that keep them up at night. Why might this be? In a time so divided, could a deeper understanding of our monsters and myths shine a … Continue reading Halloween Service: Here Be Monsters
We understand Interdependence as the art of honoring the interdependent web of all existence, acknowledging our place in it with humility, and covenanting to protect Earth and all beings. It is a value that calls us to a spiritual depth rooted at once in intuition and reason, all the while leading us to labor for … Continue reading Ecotheology: Your Animal Heart
National Coming Out Day is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on October 11 to support anyone “coming out of the closet”. First celebrated in the United States in 1988, the initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, and the emphasis on the most basic form … Continue reading National Coming Out Day
Even for one for whom saints and their days have little weight, St. Francis of Assisi is one yet still often admired. He is the patron saint of animals and ecology, often invoked over the blessings of animals and wildlife. Poet, war chaplain, peace-maker; this Sunday let us reflect upon the human life and more-than-human … Continue reading The Life & Ministry of St. Francis
You would be hard pressed to find someone untouched by the ministry of the late and great Mr. Rogers. A true paragon of pluralism, his was a calling to guide people of all ages, especially young people, to respect themselves, their community, and to deal more kindly with one another. This Sunday, won’t you please … Continue reading A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Pluralism & the Ministry of Fred Rogers
We celebrate that we are all sacred beings, diverse in culture, experience, and theology. We covenant to learn from one another in our free and responsible search for truth and meaning. We embrace our differences and commonalities with Love, curiosity, and respect. So it reads within our covenant of values under Pluralism which calls upon … Continue reading Pluralism: Love, Curiosity, & Respect
While other languages may carry various terms to define the particulates of Love, here in the English speaking west we have just the one word; one which has been pecked at by the vultures of culture for as long as folks have had a longing in their hearts, change in their pockets, and a desire … Continue reading Love At The Center: Something New, Something Wild, Something Beautiful
Has it ever felt as if you were more than simply the one stable mind piloting your body through the world? Perhaps you feel like you are somehow different at work or at play, at home or at church, with one group of people as opposed to another group. Perhaps we have often wondered what … Continue reading A Mirror, Mosaic: Multiplicities of the Self & the Undivided Life
We live in a time that keeps insisting there is too much of us. “Shrink” it says. Take up less room. Earn your place by disappearing a little more. This Sunday, let us proclaim the opposite. Pluralism calls us to celebrate that we are all sacred beings, and that all leaves no body behind. Every … Continue reading Claiming Space: Fat Liberation
Every year on the Sunday after Omaha pride, we here at 2nd Unitarian hold our annual Rainbow Blessing to proclaim Love for our queer siblings and selves and to recommit to the continual expansion of Love for Love’s sake. This Sunday, gather with friends and fellow travelers to receive a mark of Love as we … Continue reading The Rainbow Blessing: We Are Light
