In this age of polarization, we are surrounded by a pluralism of beliefs, actions and viewpoints that are not our own. Given that, it seems worth exploring the breadth and depth of someone else’s pain that is not our own. Especially when we don’t understand or particularly like that someone else that much. Split Plate Offering: Mashpee … Continue reading The Empathy Gap
We will explore the origin of Mother’s Day as a Proclamation to end war and make peace, then speak the truth of this particular holiday as lovely for some and fraught for others, often both at the same time. We will also pay tribute to our Divine Mother Earth. Split Plate Offering: Oxfam If you are … Continue reading Reclaiming Mother’s Day From Hallmark
Join us for a Music Sunday that celebrates and appreciates the multitude of moods, forms, and expressions music has, bringing a broad palate of experiences into our lives. Music has the capacity to transform, unite and nourish us as it touches our hearts. And ah – music can make us laugh! Split Plate Offering: To be announced If … Continue reading Many Expressions of Music Resounding!
Loving one’s shadow. It’s lifetime work: bringing our exiled parts back into belonging and befriending again the parts we’ve long hidden. A co-joining of sorts to unbox ourselves, to claim finally an interdependent integrated self. Join us as we talk about how that work may require something different than we thought. Split Plate Offering: Association for the … Continue reading The Integration of Our Whole Selves
The grit of the people to change, re-claim and re-create! Split Plate Offering: Brewster Ponds Coalition If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the servicelive on our YouTube channel, found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx25Z7yBfsFqneQjThk5-pAIf you have problems streaming, please let the office know. We have a Mask Optional policy. There is one area in … Continue reading Happy Earth Day! An Unexpected Hope
“Perhaps if I could pull my senses back to the scraping squeak of the window opening that welcomes the pasture’s chorus of peepers into my room, whose resonate tones glide over my bed sheet and mental haze, I’d remember to listen to my amphibian friends’ primordial call: We are one, we are one, we are one… Split Plate … Continue reading We Are One
Worship Leader John Kielb and Worship Associate Margaret Rice Moir will kick off April’s theme of Interdependence, exploring how we are connected to and depend on each other and the natural world. Split Plate OfferingPOCCA (Protect Our Cape Cod Aquifer) If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the … Continue reading Here We Are
“In my mind’s eye, I like to visit the most remarkable Hall of Fame ever. It’s filled with the usual suspects, Thor, Zeus, and Yahweh. But my favorite conversations come from hanging out with the Goddess Eostra and her good friend, and rabble rouser, Jesus.” Split Plate Offering: WeCan If you are not able to join … Continue reading A Journey to the Gods and Goddess Hall of Fame
Few things can transform us the way laughter can. So often we get entombed by an experience, condition or worry, which then dominates our life and eclipses the good. And yet friends, there is one sure fire way out, one transformative experience, that can get us out if we let it. Split Plate Offering: UNICEF … Continue reading The Elixer of Life
The hard-won rights of transgender and non-binary people are under assault as never before. Join Worship Leader Lindsey Straus as she examines the progress the trans community has made over the past quarter century and how our shared Unitarian Universalist values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity will guide us in responding to … Continue reading Transgender Rights: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
