Please join us for our annual solstice service this Sunday, December 20th. We will explore the different ways earth-centered spiritual practices inform our lives, and we will hear voices from many different traditions. Special guest speakers include members of the Rockford CUUPs organization. Come, celebrate … read more.
We move through difficulty by pulling from our well of resilience resources. How do we refill those wells when things are looking pretty bleak? Let us consider new ways of seeing kindness during the month of December, a month marked by short days and long … read more.
This Sunday, we celebrate our December Music Sunday once again. However, in this year when nothing is as it should be, our service of music will not feature a major work presented by the Unicantors. (However, the Unicantors will make a surprise appearance on Sunday … read more.
What do we say and do after the feast? After we have said “thanks” and offered up gratitude what do we do next? What comes after the feast?
Today, it is easy to become so overwhelmed we no longer feel human. If do we find time to decompress we can forget how to nurture our minds and bodies toward the gentle human experience. Today we explore the spiritual journey toward our human-ness.
When I was an undergraduate student in religious studies I had a professor who would mark a paper down whenever an “S” word was used. He claimed that words like spirit, spirituality, and sacred have so many different meanings that we often don’t know what we … read more.
The yellow brick roads of each individual life are a wondrous gift. Those roads cross and merge with others forming families, friendships, and communities. Today we will explore the spiritual threads and faith formation of our lives and as a religious community.
Liminal times, transition times, borderland times can be times of great creativity. So much of our lives these past few months have been lived in the space between what was and what is yet to be. This is also true of the time in the … read more.
Grace might be a description, a characteristic, a name, a divine gift, or an extension of love and trust we can offer one another. Today we examine the many ways we come to know grace and how it can help us expand our emotional intelligence.
So much of what we learned about the history of our nation has turned out to be a false narrative. How do we go about unlearning what we have been taught and learn more expansive ways of understanding and honoring our real history?
