Service Video. The Flower Ceremony, or Flower Communion, is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. In this ceremony, everyone brings a flower to place in a shared vase. The congregation blesses the flowers, and then given back out, with each person bringing home a different flower than the one they … Continue reading “Flower Communion,” by Alec Peck
Service Video. Pastor Udell will be speaking to us on living our lives today with purpose, in light of eternity.
Service Video Everything turns. Life comes out of death, and from death, life emerges. We see signs of this every day and grow from learning how to deal with it and rejoice in it. We learn how this birth, death, and rebirth cycle affirms our existence.
Service Video Since even before the dawn of science, humankind has sought to understand the natural world and our place in it. We have used the disciplines of study, evidence, and math to reveal the grand wonders of our world, but the practice of science has carried with it the same prejudices which science itself … Continue reading “Pioneers of Science: Women Who Shaped History,” by Alec Peck
Service Video On Feb 11, we explored the tradition and origin of Valentine’s Day. Today we will continue the discussion by contemplating the nature of love in light of Valentine’s Day celebrations around the world, as well as cultures that forbid public demonstrations of romantic love.
Service Video What does it mean to matter? How do you know you matter? Today’s reading takes a hard look at systematic racism and how it affects all of us. Colorblindness is often well-intentioned, an attempt to see everyone as a human being and therefore as the same, without paying too much attention to race and … Continue reading “The Promise of All Lives Mattering,” by Amanda Udis-Kessler
Service Video This service was written by Rev. Clyde Grubbs and Mary Jane Holden, and adapted by Rev. Erika Hewitt. It tells the story of the Civil Rights movement as it unfolded over the course of a decade.
Service video Music is a universal language of humanity that crosses borders and unites us all. Rev. Lortie reflects on how music, specifically jazz music, might teach us how to approach and resolve conflict in a new and constructive way. The Rev. Bret Lortie is senior minister of the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Illinois, and … Continue reading “Music & Meditation: Resolving Conflict in a Warring World,” by Rev. Bret Lortie
Service video Antiracism is about facing the hate of racism and working to end it. The only true weapon against hate is love.
