Unitarian Universalism is not a religion based on a set belief or creed, but rather the central problem of healing spiritual disconnection: within, among and beyond. It might just be that what the world needs now is us and our surprising saving message. Split Plate Offering: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), If you are not … Continue reading Just Connect
We often think that the central dichotomy in the world, or in ourselves, is good vs evil, but Eve’s story has something to teach us about what might be at the center of our own yearnings to understand ourselves and others. Split Plate Offering: Native Land Conservancy If you are not able to join us … Continue reading Eve’s Human Mess Up
In a matter of seconds now days, you can turn on the news, be in line at the grocery store, or sit on the beach minding your own business when you find yourself caught off guard by people blathering on in a hostile tone about one thing or another. The urge to respond in measure, … Continue reading The Best Portion of a Good Person’s Life
You are each invited to bring in a flower from your garden, from a pot on your front porch, or a wildflower from the beach, to share with the greater whole as part of a flower communion ritual. If you forget one, I’ve got you covered, no worries. Come celebrate the blessings of renewal found … Continue reading Flower Communion Service
On Memorial Day, I often find myself asking: “How does one give a ‘true’ Memorial Day Sermon?” A sermon that doesn’t contain the fiction and mythology of war, but gets to the heart of the struggle of what the day is meant to do and the reasons we have such a hard time both holding … Continue reading The Burdens they Carried
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
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
“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
