“A Purpose-Driven Congregation” with Lay leaders, children and youth
Later today, our congregation will hold it’s 145th Annual Meeting, during which we will decide whether to adopt a new Mission Statement. Does a congregation need a Mission Statement? Individuals are told to live with intentionality, but do congregations also need to lead purpose-driven lives? Does this proposed Mission Statement provide a useful guide for our church?
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Posted in May 19th, May 2013, Sunday Services, Sundays
“What Hallowed Memories Throng” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
Memorial Day marks the start of the summer season with a time of recollection and thoughtfulness, remembering those we have lost to death, as individuals and as a community, during the past year, and how those departed remain with us in spirit. The Choir will sing.
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Posted in May 2013, May 26, Sunday Services, Sundays
“A Purpose-Driven Congregation” with Lay leaders with children and youth
Later today, our congregation will hold it’s 145th Annual Meeting, during which we will decide whether to adopt a new Mission Statement. Does a congregation need a Mission Statement? Individuals are told to live with intentionality, but do congregations also need to lead purpose-driven lives? Does this proposed Mission Statement provide a useful guide for our church?
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Posted in May 19, May 2013, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Given in Blessing: Flower Celebration” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
Today we honor the work of mothering, and the mothers among us, and celebrate the values of beauty and diversity by bringing and sharing flowers as a symbol of our community. Be sure that each member of the family brings a flower, so that all can receive a different flower to take home with them. The Children’s Choir will sing.
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Posted in May 12, May 2013, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Music Sunday: Missa Gaia, Mass for Planet Earth” with Anthony Edwards & All Souls Choir
We are still merely pioneers on this planet we call Earth. We are only now learning what it is to live on this land and conversely, what it is for the land to let us live here.
Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth speaks of our relationship with the earth. The texts are drawn from the Bible, Native American poets Joy Harjo and Maurice Kenny, medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, the Chinook Psalter and poets M.K. Dean, Wendell Berry and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Offering benefits Music & Religious Education Programs.
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Posted in May 2013, May 5, Sunday Services, Sundays
“The Evil of Immortality” with Shawna Foster
Why is Unitarian Universalism important to people born after 1980? 1990? How do we connect our religion to people across the generations? What ought to keep going forever, and what ought to change? This is our intern minister’s last sermon, so come hear about what Unitarian Universalism has in store for the future as well as well as what she’s learned during her time here.
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Posted in April 2013, April 28, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Earth Day: Sustaining the Dream” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
The notion of ‘progress’ has gathered a bad reputation over the past century or so, especially as it was used to defend exploitive ways of humans relating to our planet. Yet the shifting of cultural consciousness is an odd thing; it always appears practically impossible, until suddenly it has already happened. Might there be more hope than we sometimes think? The Children’s Choir will sing, and the traditional gift of live, flowering plants will be given to each of the children.
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Posted in April 2013, April 21, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Tipping Points” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
How much diversity is too much? At what point does a congregation
become a Gay church, or a Black church, by the percentage of its
members? By the same token, what makes a White church, an
Establishment church, or an Elitist church? And what scares us more;
the threat of change, or the threat of irrelevance? As we ponder these questions, the choir will offer songs form the Black Spiritual tradition.
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Posted in April 14, April 2013, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Is There Life After Birth?” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
Jim Mitchell, the top bidder for the sermon topic at the 2013 Talent
Auction, poses this question, wondering about how religious liberals
and free thinkers find or create the meaning of life, which is perhaps
the foundational question for any religious enterprise.
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Posted in April 2013, April 7, Sunday Services, Sundays
“Dayenu, Alleluia!” with Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
This Sunday marks not only the celebration of Easter in the Christian tradition, but also the beginning of the Jewish Passover holiday, and perhaps even the start of spring. The children will enjoy an Easter egg hunt and special programming this morning, and the choir will sing.
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Posted in March 2013, March 31, Sunday Services, Sundays
