The UU Flower Service, created by Unitarian Norbert Capek nearly one hundred years ago, celebrates the sharing of our diverse and unique gifts with one another. On this day when we honor fathers and the role they have played in our lives, we also say farewell to our Director of Lifespan Religious Education and our … Continue reading Flower Communion & Farewells
In this time of celebrations and new beginnings, we’ll honor our youth who are graduating from high school and moving on to new adventures. And we’ll warmly welcome those individuals who have decided that UUCR is their spiritual home. Katie McQuage-Loukas will share her thoughts with us as she, too, marks a transition –from UUCR’s … Continue reading New Member Sunday/Bridging
Unitarian Universalists like to think of ourselves as being inclusive. Often that is true, but sometimes, not so much – and the paradigm frequently means that those who are disabled or invisibly struggling with emotional/mental health are among those not included. We’ll explore the ways in which we include – or exclude our beloveds.
In Appalachian and folk traditions, Decoration Day was a revered opportunity for gathering at the graves of those who had passed on, for a time of celebration, feasting and singing. Families would travel from long distances to the reunions held in small cemeteries on the sides of mountains to remember their beloved dead. In many … Continue reading Decoration Day
May Day, known in the Celtic calendar as Beltane, is the traditional celebration of birth and the promise of spring. Did you know that it is also celebrated round the world as International Workers’ Day, celebrating the labor of many? We’ll observe both on this Sunday, given that labor is an important part not only … Continue reading Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do
Covenants, sometimes defined as contracts with the Holy, are in our faith identified as the “promises we will keep” to one another. Missions define our core identity; covenants articulate how we will be with one another. We’ll explore the nature of covenant – both in this congregation and in the story of the Exodus of … Continue reading A Promise to Keep: Covenants and Wandering in the Wilderness
Shankar Vedantum and Bill Mesler, authors of the book, “Useful Delusions” wrote, “Believing what we want to believe and seeing what we want to see…is less a state of mind, or a reflection of one’s intelligence, and more a response to one’s circumstances… But should your circumstances change for the worse, were the pillars of … Continue reading Un-Knowing: How What We Know, and Don’t Know, Can Get Us Lost
The enduring promise of this gathered congregation calls us forward, to tend the burning flame that is at our core…the flame of belief, of love, of promise for the days to come. We are called as people of faith to (as the Shakers once said) put our “hands to work, [and our] hearts to God” … Continue reading Keepers of the Flame
The hymn “Come, Come, Whoever You are” holds the words of Jelaluddin Rumi: “Come, come, whoever you are…Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. ” It is part of the human experience that we sometimes make, and break, promises. Yet an enduring faith, and … Continue reading Renewable Faith
