A New Year has dawned, familiar and new all at once, full of promise and anxiety. As we enter into our January theme of living Love through the power of Story, let us reflect upon the raw power of narrative, how it infuses our lives, and what it means to truly be at the start, … Continue reading In the Beginning
On this darkest night of the year we gather to mark the dying of the light and it’s dawning rebirth with the sharing of song, space, and gathered light. Join us at the solstice sunset, 5 PM on Saturday, December 21st here at 2nd Unitarian, and stick around for fellowship as we warm our hearts … Continue reading Yule & The Luminous Dark
Have you paused to notice the magic of the world lately? Beneath the rush of the road, the crush of buildings, the layered pavement, it is all too easy to fail to notice the sublime in the ordinary: the wisdom in the eyes of a passerby, the laughter of a child, grass penetrating the concrete. … Continue reading Encountering Divinity in the Ordinary (Video)
Bodhi Day marks the annual celebration of the day Siddhartha Gautama reached enlightenment, thus ushering Buddhism into the world. Today Buddhism is a true world religion, plentiful with regional and cultural variations, practices, and beliefs. As we deepen our explorations in Presence this month, let us gather to reflect on this living tradition and it’s … Continue reading Bodhi Day (Video)
We often speak of ministry as just a thing that ministers do, those ordained folks with their flashy clothes and fancy degrees, but everyone has a ministry of some sort. Whether that is a ministry of time, a ministry of talent, or a ministry of treasure, a ministry is … Continue reading
As a people who would make good trouble, we are in good company. We have no shortage of allies and fellow agents for the common good on our side. Even as we still grieve, still rage, still harbor anxiety, let us allow these feelings to be as a fire in the night, guiding us into … Continue reading One on One, One by One
Fear, grief, anger; these are natural expressions of the human condition. We react, we experience, we feel this world before we know it, but today we know this world to be in dire need of redirection. Perhaps we are feeling a little lost ourselves. For all who carry a heavy heart or a worried mind, … Continue reading Sanctuary