December 15, 2024: “Building our capacity to open with curiosity and empathic care to another’s experience, feelings and needs also allows us – and actually requires us – to open more deeply and compassionately to ourselves as well, strengthening our capacity for meeting all life’s challenges.” So says the Rev. Cat Cox, who offered us an online introduction to deep dialogue in October. As the […]
December 8, 2024: Bohdi Day, as it is sometimes known in English-speaking cultures, commemorates the “awakening” of the Buddha. Having been introduced to suffering in the world after a thoroughly protected early life and having tried already many of the existing paths for pursuing peace of mind, Gautama Buddha vowed to remain in meditation until he found it. In this service of singing and […]
December 1, 2024: Staying grounded and present to ourselves, each other, and to what IS, will be vital in the months ahead. And so, we turn to our December theme, the practice of presence, and to considering what can ground us on the journey. […]
November 24, 2024: Can what’s been repaired be more beautiful than what was broken? Kintsugi, the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold is a worthy metaphor for our lives as it reminds us that embracing imperfections can create a more beautiful and resilient “us” where the “scars” of our brokenness can be part of the design, rather than trying to hide them. […]
November 17, 2024: As we continue to come to terms with the realities of the presidential election and our related feelings, we turn our focus for a moment from what has been lost, to “what is left.” We’ll invite a second set of discoveries in the journey toward allowing our grief to become transformative. Again, the deep power of gathering […]
November 10, 2024: We Unitarian Universalists claim that the what, the why and the how of repair in these very human lives of ours is centered in love. This Sunday we will continue to move more deeply into our focus on repair through the entryways of ritual, our current experience of loss, our dynamic Unitarian Universalist faith tradition,[…]
November 3, 2024: This Sunday marks the beginning of a month exploring living love through the practice of repair. We live in a time where there is so much to repair:
How do we even begin? Do we even have the energy to begin? And things are still breaking! What needs […]
October 27, 2024: All Hallows Eve, Día de Muertos, All Souls, and All Saints days invite us each autumn to remember our ancestors and our beloveds who have died. These tender days on the way to winter even open a window to working on our relationships with those who have gone before us. In a service steeped in ritual and music, we will remember with honesty, gratitude, and hope. […]
October 20, 2024: What does it mean to be spiritual? As Unitarian Universalists this is for each of us to define for ourselves. We can listen to wisdom from other cultures, from the natural world, to an internal voice, and to each other. Jenny Dewey has completed “sermon school” with Rev. Kevin and is stepping up courageously to share her sermon with us. We will accompany her on a spiritual journey that began when she was a child and continues to this day. […]
October 13, 2024: Artist and scholar Jordan Reznick interrogates historic photos for what they reveal and conceal about history and cultures. In recent work, he has brought his insightful and skillful eye to Malakoff Diggins, in conversation with members of the Nisenan tribe. On this day before Indigenous People’s Day, […]
