Yom Kippur is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar – it’s a day for making amends, attending to the ways we’ve hurt others, returning to center. This process of truth-telling is often a difficult one. It requires not only the willingness to name harm, but first the courage to acknowledge mistreatment or mistakes and imagine that things could be otherwise.

Written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

Amanda and Rev. Gray reflect on this month's themes.

Topics of discussion: What I Did on My Summer Vacation; Side with Love repro justice training; risk tolerance in justice work; focusing on connection; volunteerism and “bandwidth”; solidarity not charity & liberation theology; it hurts to be hopeful; lesbian waterfall pencil drawings

Sermons written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

Belonging is often an experience that is deeply rooted in place, in physical spaces that have offered us welcome or care. As a congregation, we are the shepherds of our church building, the people tasked with making sure it is a place of belonging. We are also Universalists and will reflect today on how Universalism asks us to make space.

Written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

We start the church year with our annual Water Communion.

Written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

Amanda and Rev. Gray reflect on this month's themes.

Topics of discussion: grown-up summer camp; the pitfalls of hyper-local governance; updates to the seven UU principles & six sources of wisdom; what world do you want to live in?; determinism vs chaos

References:

https://www.8thprincipleuu.org/

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe

https://radiolab.org/episodes/radiolab-loops

Sermons written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

In light of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, we gather to mourn and to grieve, to tend our spirits and gather up our collective courage for the work that lies before us.

After our third church year of navigating the complexity of pandemic life, this Sunday we’ll celebrate all that we’ve learned and the all the ways we’ve grown together. We’ll celebrate the blessing of this community and all those who have done so much to foster its flourishing.

Written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

Amanda and Rev. Gray reflect on this month's themes.

Topics of discussion: Social justice is creative; self-soothing tips; being human is to take a truly wild amount of long pauses, especially when discussing Memorial Day and one's opposition to the military-industrial complex

Sermons written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

On this Memorial Day Sunday, we’ll reflect on the deep commitment that is so integral to military service, the idea that no man is left behind, and the grief of lives lost in so tight a web. War and the human spirit are eternally complicated things, and today we’ll make space for the pain and pride and complexity of this holiday.

Written by: Rev. Laurel Gray

Music by: Kala Farnham

Hosted and Edited by: Amanda Hall

Referenced in this note:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/02/05/race-not-abortion-was-founding-issue-religious-right/A5rnmClvuAU7EaThaNLAnK/story.html

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