Rev. Juniper Meadows has served as our minister since May 2022.
You would be hard pressed to find someone untouched by the ministry of the late and great Mr. Rogers. With courage, love, and a neighborly heart, 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 … Continue reading A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Love, Power, & the Ministry of Mr. Rogers
In a culture where “turn the other cheek” is often mistaken for quiet submission, what if Jesus was calling folks to something far more courageous? This Sunday, we’ll explore grace as an act of powerful love; a love rooted in righteous power that resists injustice, insists on dignity, and reclaims our humanity in the face … Continue reading Skillful Spirituality: Indomitable Grace
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.
