The loss of a light like Dolly Parton lingers awhile in the heart. Few people were so universally beloved; Dolly endeavored to join hearts in song and love across all kinds of differences. This Sunday, as we observe up our annual Service of the Books, let us lift up the life and the light of … Continue reading Muse of the Mountains: Remembering Dolly Parton
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
Ours is a faith which calls us to honor, uphold, and promote the living power or true pluralism; creating spaces where all sorts of people can belong and thrive no matter how they think, feel, or move through the world. This Sunday let us explore the legacy of disability advocacy, nurturing the spiritual practice of … Continue reading The Shape We’re In: Disability, Pluralism, and the Beloved Community
Join us for our annual Flower Service. This is a beloved Unitarian Universalist tradition, where we celebrate the beauty of community and uniqueness. You’re welcome to bring a flower to share as we create a collective bouquet, symbolizing the diversity and interconnectedness of our congregation.
In the course of human history, few inventions come close to the impact of the computer; a device we are all at least somewhat familiar with, capable of handling and processing information in a way the average human brain simply cannot. To a high degree we owe such a marvel to the 20th century father … Continue reading Thinking Machines & the Life of Alan Turing
May 25th marks the birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, public speaker, Unitarian minister, and often considered the father of Transcendentalism; that quintessentially American philosophical movement that saw divinity reflected in nature, believing that direct personal insight into truth was more reliable than institutional authority or received doctrine. This Sunday, let us reconnect with these roots; … Continue reading Intuition, Authority, & the Pursuit of Truth
