What is "listening with the heart"? Rev. Florence Caplow will lead us in an exploration of how we can cultivate a greater capacity to listen with the heart: to our own inner life, to each other, and to the world itself. Listening is sacred, and there is no greater gift that we can offer another […]
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, […]
Music is one of the great gifts. How can we open our minds and hearts ever more fully to the transformative power of music? Rev. Florence Caplow along with TRUU musicians, Paul Dankers, and Michael Schoepe, assisted by the TRUU singers, will celebrate the role of music in our lives. How can we open our […]
I often jest, “Just because I’m an atheist doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God.” I don’t believe, that is, in a personal god, nor in a benevolent and mysterious force some call God. But there are certain qualities theologians sometimes attribute to “God,” along with a few of my own, that I do believe […]
This is an anxious time in our country and in the world, on the eve of a momentous election, amongst other troubles. Rev. Zenshin Florence Caplow will offer some simple spiritual practices that any of us can do, drawing from both her Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist understandings, that can be supportive in these times. https://youtube.com/live/mGYjQxr8YjI?feature=share
In this service, we will examine how ecologies recover from massive traumas like fires, floods, and volcanic eruptions to better understand how we might work on our communities and our electorate in the wake of a scarring political season. We will also spend some time on repairing ourselves (regardless of the election’s outcome)--noting where and […]
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, […]
There is much about our current moment that leads us to see not neighbors but enemies, not people but problems when we look across the rest of humanity. This not only dehumanizes the other but also alienates us from our own humanity. In this service, we will look at witch hunts and pogroms alongside successful […]
Immigration is a key issue this election season, but how much do we really understand about it? What myths obscure the realities? What do the personal experiences of immigrants teach […]