This primary season has brought to wide attention to white working class despair, the appeal of authoritarianism, and the persistence

of xenophobia, white supremacy, and misogyny in our culture. Rev. Rachel will reflect on these realities and explore how we, as people of love and people of hope, are called to respond.

We’re going to worship like it’s 1955. This Sunday we are going to (mostly) recreate the Sunday service held at People’s Church on April 3, 1955. The sermon will be a conversation between Rev. Rachel and Mr. Palmer, the minister of People’s Church 61 years ago, on the nature of truth.

On Easter, we celebrate that stories don’t always end when we think they do. Sometimes, the tomb is empty. Sometimes, resurrections happen. In this service we will explore how we might practice resurrection and we will celebrate the unlikely resurrections as we tell and re-tell stories of Jesus, spring, and a woman named Gussie who always dressed up for church.

We’ll launch the church’s annual stewardship campaign by looking back on all this congregation has accomplished and dreaming of what might be waiting for us in the year ahead.

Some say that Unitarian Universalists can believe anything they want. Rev. Rachel disagrees. Come hear her preach about how, though we are a tradition that welcomes and celebrates the spiritual diversity in our midst, we are not an “anything goes” religion.

Rev. Amy will explore why so many current stories in movies and TV feature superheroes, exploring the history and theologies of why we need them so.

Grief can be a hard, difficult, lifelong journey—and a means of transformation. In this service, Rev. Rachel will offer wisdom for living with grief, and stories of those whose experiences of grief led them to a new, unexpected wholeness.

CDAt this service we will welcome ISAAC Executive Director, Dr. Charlae Davis. What steps can People’s Church take to become an antiracist organization?

The books The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman and The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm both present love as a skill that can be taught. On this Valentine’s Day, how might we learn to love better and bring more love to our relationships and our world?

How is a leader of a 18th century religious revival like a defensive lineman? In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious revival known as The Great Awakening swept through the American colonies. This first mass cultural experience in the American colonies left an enduring impact on American religion and culture. Rev. Rachel Lonberg will explore the Great Awakening and Unitarians’ role in it —and what that mass cultural experience has to teach us about the Super Bowl.