Rev. David Schwartz

The tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to – like signing up for something when you

Monica Kling-Garcia

How many times have we not tried something new because we feared doing something wrong? Whether it be learning a new language, playing a new sport, or talking to someone new, we’ve all had this experience. It’s difficult work, taking the risk to be vulnerable, and yet the payoff can be great in our personal lives, our relationships, and even here in our church. This Sunday we will talk about what it means to be courageously vulnerable, and how it can enrich our lives and the lives of others.

Susan Frances

We will explore what acting with compassion looks like. How do the compassionate acts of being an Upstander or an engaged Bystander affect the communities of which we are a part?

Rev. David Schwartz

The Rev. Dr. Lewis McGee, ordained a Unitarian in 1949, was one of the first Black UU religious leaders. Founding an integrated church in Chicago in 1949, preaching at the intersection of justice, race, and humanism, he offers contemporary guidance on what it means to be a religion for all souls.

Rev. Teresa Schwartz

In honor of Black History month, we’ll explore the story of the first Black Unitarian Minister, Egbert Ethelred Brown, who started a Unitarian congregation in Jamaica in 1908 before moving to Harlem in 1920, where he founded the Harlem Community Church; the AUA provided sporadic financial support, then took away his ministerial fellowship in 1929. His story highlights our faith’s failures—and Brown’s resilience in the face of racism within the American Unitarian Association.

Rev. Teresa Schwartz

In Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial developmental stages, the latter years of life are marked by the work of integration versus despair. This is not a passive process—but hard work and is in some ways, paradoxical: integration can only be found by processing our own despair. While Erikson understood this primarily to be the task of the older adult, it is also the task of being human, and being human religiously.

Rev. Teri Schwartz, Timuel Black, & Michael Strautmanis

Gather for a special service in which we will celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The 52 years since his death have seen progress in racial justice—yet have also seen the persistent and pernicious plague of racism in ways both old and new.

Rev. David Schwartz

The oldest written story in the world, the Epic of Gilgamesh, is a classic hero’s journey: a story of adventure, bravery, love and grief. 4,500 years after its composition, it still speaks fresh words to our basic humanity, to our sense of what it is to be alive and have to die, and to what “happily ever after” might actually mean.

Mama Edie

Rev. David Schwartz

The essence of the advent story — a waiting for a rebirth of hope — doesn’t happen in the abstract: it unfolds in an occupied country within an empire of political and economic control. What does it mean to be a people neither pessimistic or optimistic, but hopeful and hope-filled in a world of empire?