Split Plate Offering: Community Development Partnership (CDP) If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the service live 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. Masks are required in one area of the Sanctuary: the west rear … Continue reading The Brain of the UU Teen
So often we think it’s other peoples actions, or behaviors that are at the core of our unhappiness.And yet, perhaps there is a different answer, one that takes an internal transformation rather than external one. Split Plate OfferingCape Wellness CollaborativeIf you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the service … Continue reading Liberating Oneself From Unhappiness
Critical Race Theory is at its most basic a real reckoning with our past, which includes, well. . . some unmitigated naked truths. In accepting those truths as facts, as ours, how can we better dream of an America that expands us, enlivens us, and seeks to heal rather than further divide? Split Plate … Continue reading Widening our Understanding of History
One of our Unitarian Universalist heroes is Henry David Thoreau, and while there are many things I admire about him, I’ve come to believe he was wrong on this one single point. I have a feeling you will, too. Split Plate OfferingUU Mass Action Network If you are not able to join us in person, we … Continue reading Taking One’s Moral Inventory
Join Twinks Hastings as she explores the theme of Justice and Equity, asking the question: Who do we want this Justice and Equity for? And how do we let go of our own ideas of what the world needs to follow the platinum rule “Do unto others as they would do unto themselves?” Split Plate OfferingThe … Continue reading Justice and Equity for Who?
That’s right feminist, with a big fat, voluptuous curvy F! It’s hard to believe that misogyny is alive and well again but with the overturning of Roe it’s clearly back in fashion. The number of rulings that make women’s bodies not belong to them anymore is honestly. . .staggering. Hoping to build on what it … Continue reading “It’s Time to Pull Out the F word!”
I think Jim Lieb, our church president, got it right when he said, “Alma is the spirit of First Parish Brewster” LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN SO THERE IS NO CONFUSION THIS MORNING: Alma is the spirit of First Parish Brewster… Come see what I mean, and jump into all it means to celebrate and support First … Continue reading “To Alma with Love”
Jesus was once asked what is the most important law to follow and he said, “Love your lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself.” This is such a complicated and seemingly odd practice, that it might just seems impossible. At yet, it might just be one of the most … Continue reading Do I Really Have to?
What is all this UU talk about love? Is it magic? Is it voodoo? Is it even possible in this sorry world? Well, maybe it’s the only thing that IS possible to remain engaged, hopeful, and resilient in building a better world. Join Margaret Rice Moir as she explores why we have no choice but to love. … Continue reading Note to Self: Fall in Love
