Our UU Principles are New

Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister

Melissa Marote, Lay Worship Leader

Our UU Principles were a theological snapshot of the mid-80's. Rev. Mike Young will tell the story of how and why we passed them. Are they still of value?

September 27th, 2015 WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR?

 Reverend Mike Young, Interim Minister

 The parable of the Good Samaritan is perhaps the most

misunderstood of the parables.  It might

better have been titled, “Who is Your Enemy?”

TEACH US THE LESSON OF FLOWING

 Reverend Mike Young, Interim Minister

Bring the water from your summer escapes, and we’ll share

and celebrate it together.  Rev. Mike

Young and Melissa Marote will help us celebrate the water – and lack of it ---

that bind us together.

WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Angie M. Jimenez, Faith-Rooted Organizer

Angie Jimenez, a field organizer for C.L.U.E. (Clergy and

Laity for Economic Justice) has been part of C.L.U.E.’s projects on El Super’s

attempts to fight unionization…and we won! 

She’s also been involved with the minimum wage campaign at City Council

and County Board of Supervisors. “This is what justice looks like.”

July 5th,

2015

U.S. EXCEPTIONALISM

Rev. Mike Young,

Interim Minister

 

“Exceptionalism” is

the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, and time period

is “exceptional” (i.e., unusual or extraordinary) in some way and thus does not

need to conform to normal rules or general principles.

June 26, 2015

ONCE UPON A TIME -

AGAIN

Michael Eselun, UCLA

Oncology Chaplain

 

Popular guest speaker

and UCLA Oncology Chaplain, Michael Eselun will explore the meaning and hidden

gifts that may lie in our stories, just waiting to be told.

June 21st, 2015

CELEBRATING SUMMER

SOLSTICE

Rev. Dr. Karen Tate, Speaker

Nature lovers,

environmentalists and those who practice earth-based spirituality know we’re

approaching the Summer Solstice, when we salute the Sun for its powerful energy

that sustains all life.  Rev. Dr. Karen

Tate will introduce us to the Sun Goddess-es—the Japanese Amaterasu and the

Egyptian Sekhmet—as deities, archetypes and ideals offering us values for a

more sustainable future on Mother Earth.

June 14, 2015

SMELLING THE FLOWERS

AND OTHER JOYS

Rev. Mike Young,

Interim Minister

 Sometimes the most

spiritual thing you can do is just to be fully present.  After all, it’s your life and you wouldn’t

want to miss more of it than necessary.

June 7th, 2015

YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Wendi Gladstone and Rev. Mike

Young

Based on our

Unitarian Universalist 7th principle, the sermon will be about the proposed

Santa Susana Mountain Park.  Remember

where the rockets were developed? 

There’s more there and it deserves to be protected.  Wendi Gladstone purchased this sermon at the

Oct. 2014 Service Auction, and this is her topic.

May 10, 2015

MOMMY, GIMME A DRINK ‘A WATER

Mother's Day Sermon by Rev. Mike Young

Danny Kaye's

rendition of this was one of my children's favorites.

The service will be a

celebration of motherhood—of parenting by whoever happens to be filling the role.