This Sunday is a Fellowship Service, founded in the Unitarian Universalist philosophy of Small Group ministry. We gather with a lay leader in conversations that deepen and expand the ministry of a congregation. Two key focuses are building community and deepening relationships, and the opportunity for deeper spiritual exploration and search for meaning. This month, […]
What if I told you a hardy resilience was already and always available to you? You may then ask, “How do I access this?” Let me explain. There are two distinct forms of resilience – psychological and spiritual. These correspond to the two aims of meditation. The first is fostering a healthy human life, psychological […]
On this Sunday of Valentine’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate the radically inclusive and actually heretical teachings of Universalism. If you go to gatherings of UUs, you will see t-shirts that say, “Love at the Center” and “Love the Hell out of This World.” These both come from our Universalist roots. Rev. Zenshin Florence Caplow will […]
When stress or trauma knocks us off-center, it can feel like our inner life goes quiet—or goes into overdrive. In this reflection, you explore what “recovery of spirit” can look […]
What does it mean to live in truth? When Mark Carney addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, he challenged the world's leaders to face the future […]
Why does life, even at its most abundant, remain threaded with struggle? This service reflects on the necessity of contrast—light and dark, ease and tension, belonging and separation—as essential to […]
In March we are exploring “The Practice of Paying Attention” and nothing keeps us from paying attention more than our addictions to busyness and moving fast. This Sunday Rev. Zenshin Florence Caplow will invite us to slow down, do less, and connect with all that is precious in our world. https://youtube.com/live/ZGnJ9zgVbn8?feature=share
Some of the most important justice work doesn’t happen in public. It happens in the spaces where we feel safe, unchallenged, and certain we’re “the good ones.” In this Social Justice service, we’ll explore a bracing (and strangely freeing) question: who are we becoming when nobody’s watching? Not as a guilt trip, and not as […]
This Sunday is a Fellowship Service, founded in the Unitarian Universalist philosophy of Small Group ministry. We gather with a lay leader in conversations that deepen and expand the ministry of a congregation. Two key focuses are building community and deepening relationships, and the opportunity for deeper spiritual exploration and search for meaning. This month, […]
What can we learn from the natural world about how to survive and bloom in this time, just as flowers bloom after great fires? What can we learn from the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island about surviving in the midst of the continuing genocide they have been experiencing for the last 500 years? Rev. Zenshin […]
This Sunday is a Fellowship Service, founded in the Unitarian Universalist philosophy of Small Group ministry. We gather with a lay leader in conversations that deepen and expand the ministry of a congregation. Two key focuses are building community and deepening relationships, and the opportunity for deeper spiritual exploration and search for meaning. This month, […]
What becomes possible when we loosen our grip on certainty — and get curious about what else might be true? Join Rabbi Shereen Sarick for a spirited, story-rich reflection that invites us to explore life’s twists and turns with more openness, courage, and imagination. Following the reflection, Shereen will offer a brief “Ask Me Anything” […]