Often, our relationship with our own bodies is a journey with many pitfalls and hard lessons along the way. This service explores embodied, radical self-love as a source of belovedness. It will conclude with the ritual of milk and honey, a blessing reminding us of the sweetness that is present alongside the mundane, sometimes painful … Continue reading At Home in Our Bodies: A Wilderness Journey
Each year as the season shifts from summer to fall, it is believed that we enter a thin time, a liminal space, when those who have passed beyond the veil of death are closer. UUFC honors this time with a Service of Remembrance. This is something rare and a bit rebellious to mainstream culture—we talk … Continue reading Service of Remembrance
Art can help us see the world differently, but sometimes, the story behind the art is as powerful as the pieces or productions themselves. Artist and social activist Ricardo Levins Morales compares art to the herbs of a healer. The herbs may raise or break a fever; they may lower it. At this service, we’ll … Continue reading If These Walls Could Talk: Art and Transformation
Join us for our annual water service or water communion, a very special day in the UU calendar. Bring a small container of water from somewhere you spent time this summer, be it in the antipodes or in your own kitchen sink, and we will mingle the waters in our communal bowl during the service. … Continue reading In Gathering/Water Service
After the November 2024 elections, the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Rev. Sofia Betancourt, shared the prophetic statement, ‘We are a sanctuary people.’ At this service, we’ll explore the idea of sanctuary, how Unitarian Universalism has been a sanctuary tradition over the years, and how to continue to be this for one another. … Continue reading Unitarian Universalism: A Sanctuary Tradition
June 8th, 10:30am. Topic: “Annual Flower Service: A Bouquet of Gratitude.” Service led by Reverend Stacy Craig. The annual ritual of the flower service celebrates the diversity and unique gifts of this gathered community. Please bring a flower and place it in the communal vase when you arrive. This service will also feature the … Continue reading Annual Flower Service: A Bouquet of Gratitude
May 11th, 10:30am. Topic: “The Practice of Imagination.” Service led by Reverend Stacy. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” ― Theodore Parker This quote from Unitarian minister Theodore Parker (1810-1860) is often ascribed to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was a master at moral … Continue reading The Practice of Imagination
Being worry free is not a prerequisite to practicing joy. Philosophers and religious thinkers have been engaging this topic from ancient times to current times. If we can choose joy, can we choose non-joy? If joy is an art, can we create it? Come and find out! Worship Leader: Reverend Stacy Craig Worship Associate: … Continue reading Practice of Joy
The four elements: earth, wind, fire, and water are in religious rituals, prayers, and practices. They are the components of nature needed for life, but relationships with the elements are changing with climate catastophies. How do we reclaim our relationship with the elements that bring life and destruction? Perhaps it has to do with the … Continue reading The Four Elements
There are three Great Divides in the landscape of this country: the Lake Superior watershed, the Rocky Mountains, and talking with Republicans and Democrats. How did the U.S. become so polarized that many have estranged family members and neighbors that glare instead of wave? Using lessons from serving two very different geographic areas, Rev. Stacy … Continue reading Across the Great Divides: Building Trust and New Member Ceremony
