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Clarity and Community

What are you about? How are you going about being about it? Every day we have opportunities to clarify our values as individuals and a community. In this service we will consider how we can clearly discuss our values and come to live in ways that strive to be in alignment with what we truly … Continue reading Clarity and Community

Common Purpose

Returning to regular cycles of church life after a season apart invites us to clarify the values that bind us in community. By identifying a common purpose for the work we do in the world and the way we share in the sanctuary, we begin that clarification process. Join us for a service of naming … Continue reading Common Purpose

Coming Home

Some say you can’t come home again, others say it’s a place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Exploring what coming home means enables us to anchor ourselves and to provide safety and anchoring for others.

Restringing the Beads

Popular guest speaker and UCLA oncology chaplain Michael Eselun visits our congregation. Using a few of the stories of the patients he has served, as well as some deeply personal ones of his own, Michael will explore our relationship to the narrative of our own lives, and how we use those stories in the attempt … Continue reading Restringing the Beads

The Sacred and the Mundane

This week we will explore how Jewish women honor the sacred by blending spiritual acts into mundane daily life. Join us to learn how we can all apply these lessons into our own lives to grow and deepen our spiritual practices.

After the Storm…

Our Unitarian Universalist 7th Principle reads, “RESPECT FOR THE INTERDEPENDENT WEB OF ALL EXISTENCE OF WHICH WE ARE A PART” One of the features of the Pagan Tradition is the recognition of Nature working in a cycle as a sacred Balance between Creation and Destruction. Lughnasadh (aka, Lammas), is the Pagan celebration of the First … Continue reading After the Storm…

Wonder Women

A cartoon, an author, and the coolest old lady that ever lived: these are the women who have shaped my faith. From them I learned compassion for others and for self, going up against the system, and enjoying every moment God has given me. From MTV to Regency England to Sunday services, inspiration can be … Continue reading Wonder Women

Fight, Flight, or Faith

There are choices that we make all the time…choices made without really thinking. Sort of like buying into something that we don’t even want, but not being aware of our complicity. Fight, Flight, or Faith is about those choices and where we go we take our choices with us. When looking at those days in … Continue reading Fight, Flight, or Faith