Soulful Sundown - Joint Service with Southold

Speaker: Rev. Jennifer Brower

Worship Leader: Chris Epifania

Musician: Rev. Jennifer L. Bower

The secret of happiness. Here its is in a contemporary worship service in the Soulful Sundown style. Using the music of Brandi Carlisle, Needtobreathe, Pharell and others, this morning, the Gathering of Friends band and the Rev. Jennifer L. Brower from the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset leads a service of music and the spoken word for peo­ple of all ages.

The Summer of Our Discontent

Speaker: Rev. Galen Guengerich, Senior Minister at All Souls in NYC

Worship Leader: Sue Penny

Musician: Maxfield & Leo Panish

The problems facing our nation and our world are so complicat­ed and so deeply-entrenched that it’s hard to know how we as individuals should think about them, much less how we might do anything about them. What can one person — or even one congregation — do in response?

Rev. Nancy Arnold's last service as interim minister of UUCSF. With the analogy from the classic film "Field of Dreams", Rev. Arnold tells us, "if you build it, they will come". We built a modern meetinghouse for the community... what can she mean? She shares her observations in working with us for a glorious two years and offers us her insights. We wish Nancy well at All Souls in New York City. She will be missed. Walter Klaus at the piano.

Humans hover between fearing / fighting the stranger and reaching out, maybe to find friendship, an adventure. Each re­action is hard-wired by our evolution and each makes sense in its time. But as the world grows smaller, and human violence threatens so much, how can we expand empathy and grow peace? Ken Dorph shares from his personal experience, includ­ing his travels in the Arab world, to help us contemplate how to fight fear and to stand on the side of love. Maxfield Panish on Violin.

Reverend Nancy O. Arnold in the pulpit. "Atheism is not merely the absence of God, it isn't as if something is missing from their lives, being an atheist simply allows for the presence of faith in something other than a supernatural being." One in a series of lectures that explore the diversity of Unitarian Universalist religious thought.

Rev. Nancy A. Arnold in the pulpit … in the name of the spirit of love that binds us one to the other may we devote ourselves to tasks that revere the dead in the land of the living. Help us to honor the dead by our actions and our aspirations. May their memory lead us to love one another with all our hearts, then indeed the memory of their lives will be for a blessing.

Carl Wittenberg auctions paintings that represent this communities aspirations looking toward the future. Rev. Nancy Arnold asks us to think of what we receive from this community and make a commitment to the future of the congregation. Carl at the piano.

Robbie Vorhaus, author of "One Less. One More. Follow your heart. Be happy. Change slowly" presents this inspirational sermon at the UUCSF on March 15, 2015.

Native American Spiritual- Our Elder Mother-Earth

Aiyana Smith from the Shinnecock Tribe of Eastern Long Island is in the pulpit to explain how life of Native Americans follow the seasons and cycles of mother earth.

Rev. Nancy O. Arnold recounts her life changing pilgrimage to the American South tracing the steps of the civil rights activists of the 1960's and her words remind us that we are still obligated to work for the civil rights of all.