Guest Speaker Rev Kiya Heartwood's sermon delivered on March 2, 2025. In these challenging times, Joy is one of our super powers. Learning to stay in the struggle with rest, community, and joy. That's how we win.

Rev Michelle LaGraves's sermon delivered on February 23, 2025. Rev. Michelle reflects on this month's theme of inclusivity and what this means for our mission of doing justice. So often we think about doing justice so that all will be included. But what might it look like to include ALL in doing justice?

Rev Chris Jimmerson's sermon delivered on February 16, 2025. We have just celebrated another Valentine's Day, so let's explore the practices that help us create healthy, successful romantic relationships and how many of those same practices might also enhance our love for family, friends, and others - and might even lead us to Agape - selfless, unconditional, divine love.

Rev Chris Jimmerson's sermon delivered on February 9, 2025. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught inclusion so rooted in love that it would become liberatory for all. Perhaps reclaiming the collective love and liberation that is at the heart of our UU Christian heritage is how we best counter an ideology of exclusion that has arisen in our state and our country.

Rev Chris Jimmerson's sermon delivered on February 2, 2025. Join us for an all-ages service to bless the beloved animal companions in your lives. All friendly, well-behaved creatures, young, old, great and small, furry and scaly, are invited to this cherished annual tradition. In these challenging times, let us honor our animal companions, who are such a vital source of our joy and resilience.

Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's sermon delivered on January 26, 2025. We are a people who value transformation but so often, we tie ourselves to the fixed state of "good." Join Rev. Carrie as she explores transformation and how it plays into our goal of a more just, loving, and compassionate world.

Rev Chris Jimmerson's sermon delivered on January 19, 2025. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously laid out a dream of justice and Beloved Community. January 20 will be both MLK Day and inauguration day. We'll examine how we might develop the spiritual resilience to keep the dream alive through a time when it seems so threatened.

Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on January 12, 2025. As humans, we make sense of our world by creating stories. Essentially, both as individuals and as groups, we construct ourselves through constructing narratives about ourselves. And those stories not only determine how we feel about ourselves and our world, but they also drive who we are, what we do, and who we are becoming. In effect, they are self-perpetuating. But what if the story we are telling ourselves is harmful and untrue? Can we rewrite or at least reinterpret it in order to create a more life-fulfilling, whole-hearted narrative?

Rev Chris Jimmerson and Rev Michelle LaGrave's service delivered on January 5, 2025. For New Year's Day, we will hold our annual burning bowl service. We contemplate what we would like to let go so that we may more easily find our center. Then we whisper that which we would like to let go into pieces of flash paper, toss them into a fire, and watch them burn away.

Guest Speaker Bis Thornton's sermon delivered on December 29, 2024. As 2024 enters its final few days, many of us are thinking about endings. How do we keep loving when loving is what makes saying goodbye so hard? And how can we stay focused on joy in the present when we fear the suffering the future holds? Join guest preacher Bis Thornton on a journey into the Gospel of John to see what its stories can tell us about love and loss in our lives today.