Choosing Covenant: On Being Counter-Cultural Heretics
Listen Here I’m not talking about the Hallmark Card version of “covenant” with perfect words under dusty glass hung in an echo-chamber of an empty room. I’m preaching about the coffee-stained covenant with tear marks and crinkles and words scribbled in the margins. I will tell the story of ancestral counter-cultural heretics and the covenant […]
The Courage to Heal
Listen Here Scars are funny things. They tell the story of a life lived, but sometimes we can mistake them for shields. We can use them as a way to keep others at bay. Explore the idea of putting down these shields and working toward healing.
The Path of Courage
Listen Here What do we feed ourselves and others? How do we care for ourselves and others with compassion, courage, the superpower of vulnerability, strength and wisdom? As Dr. Brené Brown says: “Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is our greatest measure of courage. Vulnerability is at the core […]
The Courage to be Imperfect
Listen Here We place a high value on perfection in our society, in continually working to improve ourselves and our world. We do this so thoroughly, that it is often an automatic impulse. How can we empower ourselves to embrace imperfection?
All Along the Way
Life lessons tend to come to us not all at once, but little by little,day by day. Join Rev. Joe and the Religious Services Committee as we explore some of these lessons and how we use them as we try to become the best versions of ourselves.
Water Communion
Listen Here Across our world, Unitarian Universalists celebrate the beginning of a new congregational year by taking part in our Water Communion. It’s a ritual that highlights our returning to each other after a time when many have traveled over the summer months. Bring some water from your tap or your travels to mingle together […]
Why Belong
Listen Here Rev. Joe asks the question, “Why Belong?” What makes Unitarian Universalism, as some joke, the most Protestant of Protestants? How can a people of such varying theologies call themselves a community? Join us this Sunday for some potential answers.
A Clenched Fist
Hands are complicated things, though we often take them for granted. What can hands symbolize and actualize? Join us this Sunday for a service that reconsiders the ordinary.
A Clenched Fist
Hands are complicated things, though we often take them for granted. What can hands symbolize and actualize? Join us this Sunday for a service that reconsiders the ordinary.
Amazing Grace
Listen Here No, not the song, though it’s a nice tune. Rev. Joe and the Religious Service Committee share stories of very human grace. Each story is rooted in our human interactions about how we, as people, can bring grace into the world and our relationship.
