Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson

Love that Frees

We continue our month on liberating love, and recommit to Dr. King’s vision of Beloved Community, by reflecting on the power of Love to set us free, both collectively and individually. How might love ground our work to abolish systems of control and dehumanization, … read more.

Love is in Need of Love Today

The Unitarian Universalist Association has named Liberating Love as the heart of our faith in its new proposed statement of values. What does it mean to make love the heart of our faith, and how might we nurture liberating love in our lives and … read more.

Christmas Eve

5 pm Christmas Eve Candlelight Service: Our traditional service of lessons and carols. We tell the old story, and wonder together: “Can we have peace on earth today?” This is an all-ages service. Please note: There is NO morning worship service on Sunday, … read more.

Pageant!

Our annual no-rehearsal pageant. This celebration and retelling of the ancient story is a time to reflect on possibility, peace, and how we might co-create heaven on earth. Come prepared to be delighted, to sing, and to join in together.

The Mind Alive: New Thought

In the Auction, Rich McKnight won the right to pick a topic and selected the New Thought movement. A very close cousin to Unitarian Universalism, the tradition of New Thought (which includes Unity and Centers for Spiritual Living) teaches that we can connect with the … read more.

Wow!

If we were centered in a theology of abundance and a practice of gratitude, how might it change how we live, individually and together? When we praise what is good, might it give us the courage and power to change what is not good? … read more.

Un-veiled

According to Celtic teaching, on the night halfway between the fall equinox and the winter solstice, the veil between the world of the dead and the world of the living lifts, and spirits wander among us. Separate from but similar to the traditions … read more.

It’s All Native Land

What do we do with the complicated history of settler-colonialization of Indigenous Land? What is our individual and collective responsibility to repair? What stories should we know and tell? We will take the time to avoid simple and formulaic answers as we learn together.

Generations 2

The second in this series (do watch the first online if you missed it). We’ll turn to how we can be and live together. How do we cross the gulf and build bridges? How can we nurture a multigenerational community? How can elders hear and … read more.

Generations 1

This begins a two-sermon series on Generations, Generational Theory, and Multigenerational Community. We’ll explore the newest thinking about how generations are shaped, and the spiritual tasks and gifts of each generation. We’ll begin to think about multi- and cross-generational community, which we’ll pick … read more.