Bring your ears and your voice to our spring music service! Join us and take part in an exciting interactive program exploring the utility of music, featuring performances by People’s Church members as well as special guests.

The troubles of the world—the destruction of the environment, gun violence, white supremacy—crack our hearts open. This service will explore how the heartbreak calls us into community and into action.

On this Easter Sunday, we will celebrate new life and resurrection through readings and song.

Our annual Poetry Service will explore the bond of human experience through spoken and written word.

This Sunday is the beginning of our stewardship season. In the annual ‘Sermon on the Amount,’ Rev. Rachel and People’s people will reflect on the great things happening at People’s Church–and invite us all to continue to be the generous, loving, justice-seeking community that we are.

‘Love is the way messengers/from the mystery tell us things’ writes the 13th century Muslim mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī , who is often known simply as Rumi. Nearly every religious tradition has a mystical tradition, made up of people who seek heightened states where they feel the presence of The Holy. In this service, we will explore Persian Muslim mystic poets Hafez, Rumi, and Rabi’a, and the mystic approach to religious knowing more generally.

Islam is the religion we are focusing on in March at People’s Church. The word ‘Islam’ literally means ‘submission’ or ‘surrender.’ How do Muslims understand these ideas at the heart of their faith? What might we Unitarian Universalists learn from engaging with these ideas?

If you are working to stay present in the world—interacting with others with care, compassion, and kindness; advocating and acting on issues of justice locally and in our world—feelings of heartbreak and overwhelm often come. How do we acknowledge these feelings, respect our needs, yet stay engaged in the works of love and justice? In this service, organized by Rev. Rachel and the Social Justice Coordinating Committee, a few People’s people will share about the spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual work they do to stay woke, stay present, and stay engaged.

The #MeToo movement is giving contemporary society an opportunity to have a long-overdue conversation about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and male privilege. How can men join this conversation as allies to “affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations”?

The Zhuangzi (sometimes written in English as Chuang-tzu) is one of the core texts of Taoism, based on the teachings of a sage that lived in the 3rd century BCE. The text contains stories and anecdotes that one scholar describes as ‘a ramble into the unexpected, the unpredictable, and the unknown—a piñata of paradox and parody and parable and wit, just waiting to be cracked open by childlike joy.’ This Sunday, Rev. Rachel will share some of these stories and lift up what they might have to teach us.