Thoughts on navigating the tension between our individuality and our interdependence.

Even with the inevitability of change and the intentionality of transformation, we often won't see instant results. This week, we look at how we live with the long haul of deep transformation.

On Easter Sunday, most of our Christian neighbors celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, their Savior. But what about us? What might salvation mean for Unitarian Universalists?

Anne and Wade are retired UU ministers and former members of our congregation who now live in Albuquerque.

Our theme for March is "The Gift of Transformation." This week, we explore the inevitability of change, and the intentionality with which we can approach it.

The biblical flood story by Noah has been inspirational for millennia. More recently science has uncovered facts about a flood unprecedented in human history, from a time and place that indicate it was the source of the Great Flood experiences and stories. Can this flood story by science be at least as inspirational as Noah's story? More inspirational? Perhaps a closer look will provide an answer.

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. John Cullinan, Pastor

Rev. Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education

Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music

Aaron Anderson, guitar and vocals

Patrick Webb, Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, Galen Gisler, and Rick Bolton, AV techs

WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in the book by the prayer candles, or in our Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

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Have questions?  Contact our office administrator at:  [email protected] or Rev. John at [email protected]

OFFERTORY 

Our Share the Plate partner for February is our partner church in Fenyokut, Romania.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering, Please make your donation here:: https://giv.li/5jtcps 

MUSIC CREDITS

“I Hear Them All” by David Rawlins and Ketch Secor. (Aaron Anderson, vocals and guitar.) Permission to stream BMI song #392210212 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“For the Beauty of the Earth,” words by Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, adapted., music by Conrad Kocher, abridged, arrangement by Anne Krentz Organ. Hymn Public Domain.  Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“Find a Stillness,” words by Carl G. Seaburg, based on a Unitarian Transylvanian text, Transylvanian hymn tune, harmony by Larry Phillips.  Words and harmony used by permission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).  Music Public Domain.

“Walk Beside Me” by Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott. (Aaron Anderson, vocals and guitar.) Permission to stream ASCAP song #530503670 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Woyaya” by the Ghanian-British Afro Rock band, Osibisa: Loughty Amoa, Solomon Amarfio, Robert M. Bailey, Roy Bedeau, Francis T. Osei, Whendell K. Richardson, and Mac Tontoh.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #908360378 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770. 

“O Life That Maketh All Things New,” words by Samuel Longfellow.  Music from Thomas Williams’s Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789, arrangement by J. Bert Carlson. Hymn Public Domain. Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“The Way,” words by unknown author, music by Nylea L. Butler-Moore.  Used by permission of the composer.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

Some thoughts on how language - and the games we play with it - get in the way of our work for justice and equity.

February's theme is "The Gift of Justice and Equity." We begin with the needs right in front of us, and a visit to Bryan Stephenson's instructions to "get proximate."

Around the world, democracy is under attack. Unitarian Universalists affirm the use of democracy in our congregations and society as a principle. How and why is the use of democracy a religious and spiritual value — and how might we affirm and promote it?

How our Universalist heritage calls us to place Liberating Love at the center of our shared values.