If we were to be a faith of named prophets and saints, few would argue that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would not be part of that host. While not Unitarian himself, the man left an indelible mark on our tradition, and so it is that on this third Sunday of January, we turn to … Continue reading Love, Power, Story
Every story needs an ending of course. We’ve spoken of the narrative nature of our being, how we know the world through stories. For many of us this upcoming inauguration heralds some tremendous change, some approximation to an end of our own, but is this so? What comes after the ending? How do those of … Continue reading The End of the World
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
To be loved is to belong, and to belong is to be changed. We become more than we may have been in relation to others. Indeed, can we be fully human outside of relationships with other people? This Sunday, before Rev. Juniper takes her leave for the month of August, join us for worship and … Continue reading Loved Into Realness (Video)
2nd Unitarian Church of Omaha has been a spiritual home for freedom loving folks seeking to live authentically, to seek the truth in Love, and to help their neighbor believe more fully in life since the 1970s. Through times of lean and times of plenty this community has demonstrated it’s staying power by the stewardship … Continue reading The Home That Love Made
One could quite easily tell a complete story about the Civil Rights movement without mentioning the term “Unitarian Universalist”, but you would be unable to tell a complete story of our faith without mentioning the movement for Black Empowerment both within and outside of our Living Tradition. This Sunday, let us hear the story of … Continue reading Love, Rage, and Liberation: Black History and Unitarian Universalism
“…the vastness is bearable only through Love.” So writes the great cosmologist and science popularizer Carl Sagan in his science-fiction book “Contact”, a story exploring the implications of extraterrestrial communications with the human race and the rapid fire, overwhelming changes that may accompany such a signal. While our skies may yet be empty we nonetheless … Continue reading For Small Creatures Such as We
“Love is the spirit of this church”…So it is said in so many Unitarian Universalist congregations across the country. This lead-in to the covenant written by the 19th century Unitarian minister James Villa Blake, beloved by so many, invokes the name of Love not as something flimsy and ephemeral but as the ground of our … Continue reading 2U and Article 2: Love Illuminating
