Despair, then hope; Death, then life; Darkness, then light. The story of Easter is a reminder that when it seems like all is lost and the world is breaking your heart, you might be at the beginning of the story, not the end. Hope can be found even in the darkest of times if only … Continue reading Roll Away the Stone, Rise Up, and Go Out Into the World
The month of March is the windiest month of the year, and the old saying goes “In like a Lion and out like a Lamb.” Wind is not the same as a gentle breeze. It is powerful, sometimes even destructive force, which is visible only due to the effect that it has. Wind, like change, … Continue reading The Winds of Change: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Join us this Sunday as the Poet and Author Ipyani Lockert speaks on discovering your purpose, knowing your value, and owning your worth.
When facing not only our personal struggles but constitutional crises and yet another mass school shooting, how do we refuse to give in to despair and hopelessness? Join us as we discuss how we can live out our principles every day with hope and dignity.
Join us this Sunday for a Service full of Fellowship. This is our time to talk about the 3 essential areas of our Church-Home: Community, Worship, and Stewardship. This service will be filled with songs of Joy and Reflections of that Beloved Community.
What do you do when you feel your own government doesn’t care whether you live or die, when you think that there is no more justice left in the world? 2018 is a year of hope and reclaiming your own personal power.
Black Liberation is a desire for the freedom of all peoples grounded in dismantling the structures and institutions that oppress Black peoples globally. We must continue to work to counter oppression in our faith communities and in the world.
In her poem, “A Litany for Survival,” Audre Lorde famously said “we were never meant to survive” — and yet we did. How? How did Black people and Black women, in particular, survive the seemingly unsurvivable? Mass kidnappings to a new (to them) world, slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, BLM and #SayHerName. … Continue reading A Way Out Of No Way: Black Women And Black Religion
This month’s sermons are intended to help us, as a congregation and as individuals, to create a strong pluralistic community, and to see our congregational diversity as a source of strength and power. Today’s sermon examines what may be the most difficult diversity of all: political difference. Will UUs of all political groups be welcome … Continue reading “BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS DIVERSITIES: Political Differences,” by Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger
