What sustains you during a time of wandering or confusion? What stays with us when we feel alone or lost? The Jewish Passover story is one of many about times in between security and clarity, times when confusion, hardship, or doubt are weighing us down. Spiritual writer and therapist David Richo suggests that in the midst of a journey through shadows and rocky places, can we find grace in curiosity, patience, and presence.

How we handle money can be a source of insight about how our spiritual approach to life developed and how it has evolved for us over the years. With stories about family life and overlooked inheritances, Roger Jones invites us to think about our personal relationships, our sense of self, our money, and those funny places where they overlap. Bio: A native of Indiana and Illinois, Roger is the senior minister of the UU Society of Sacramento, where he began serving as family minister in 2008. Before that he served 10 years in Sunnyvale, CA, and one as interim minister in Bloomington, MN. Current volunteer work includes the Board of his local YMCA and the Susan Frederick-Gray’s campaign to be UUA president.

Self-care, tending to the body, the soul and the spirit, is crucial in moments of challenge, tension, and fear. Even as we talk about justice and resistance, it is important that we tend to our spirits, our souls, that we nurture the goodness and fire of love within.

Calling is a word I use a lot at UUCP. It is a word that has meaning in my own life and path. We use the word calling in our mission statement and when we talk about our vision. What does calling mean, and how does one discern and follow a call?

Keen observation informs clear vision and effective action. From arid lands farming to liberation praxis to activism & resistance, the practice of being observant serves as the foundation for it all.

Now more than ever, we are committed to making our congregation as strong as it can be to amplify our values and vision of justice, diversity and inclusion. Now more than ever, we need to invest in making our vision and values reality. This service is the kickoff to our combined stewardship and capital campaign to support our ministry next year and provide for greater accessibility and ministry capacity at UUCP.

Our music program presents a morning of confident, contemporary justice music that will strengthen our resolve to make the world right and ground us in love.

What are the qualities we most seek in our leaders? What leadership do we need for today? In the leadership roles we hold (as parents, at work, in the community, in our families or households) what are the ethical principles that can help us lead in ways that encourage the values of love and justice.

February 12, 2017: Multi-Gen Valentine's Day: RE Sunday (Petes's Dragon)| Katie Resendiz by UUCP

Much theological work has been done to reveal the necessary connection of love and justice. What does this work offer to us as a community seeking to live at the intersection of love and justice