For the third week of advent our guest minister, Vahisha Hassan, speaks on the topic of joy.

What are the different kinds of peace? Can peace ever be a negative thing? How can we tell the difference between the positive and negative manifestations of peace?

How do we talk about despair during a time that is supposed to be hopeful, and how do we talk about hope during a time of despair? Also, why are half of all of the Christmas specials we watch about somebody needing to save Christmas?

What do we do with our doubts? How can we, as people of faith and as Unitarian Universalists, find ways to honor and listen to or doubts while also not letting them run our lives?

Many of our most ancient sacred texts and traditions ask us to set time aside for rest and time with family. What is the spiritual significance of this time, and how is it still necessary today?

The life we live together in Unitarian Universalist community is a beautiful and complicated dance. As times and seasons change and we move along into the future, we all must still dance together as a community.

A personal story of self-reflection, self-awareness, and transformation in a sermon entitled Changing the Tapes. Rev. Lindsay Butler, staff chaplain at the VA, wants to share a message about the tapes or thoughts that play in our heads on loops. A message where we confront and wrestle with stories others tell about us in attempts to define us as well as how we confront our own personal thoughts about ourselves and how those very thoughts impact our lives in.

For October, we explored some of the most gruesome and upsetting Biblical passages and stories, trying to figure out what we can do with them. For this week, what love and hope is there to be found in disaster?

For October, we exploed some of the most gruesome and upsetting Biblical passages and stories and trying to figure out what we can do with them. For this week, how do we interpret an act of brutal violence from a Biblical heroin?

For October, we explored some of the most gruesome and upsetting Biblical passages and stories, and trying to figure out what we can do with them. For this week, guest preacher and beloved friend of the congregation, Rev Carlton Smith, explores Psalm 123, and asks, "How do we guard against the translation of our pain and shame into senseless violence?"