New Year’s Eve is a popular time for new resolutions. How does Unitarian-Universalism guide us in making resolutions centered in our values? How do we hold our inherent worthiness in productive tension with our call to help in the healing of the world? Join us for a service of value-centered hope for 2024.

A More or Less True Christmas Story

The beginning and end of life are two of the biggest mysteries we know: what happens before we are born, and what happens after we die? And what is the point of what happens in between: why are we here at all? Unitarian Universalism is surprisingly comfortable with questions, including the biggest ones. Join us for this service where we explore life’s biggest mysteries, and some tools that help us to be comfortable with the unknown.

We don’t know how this story will end, which means there’s room for an enormous amount of surprising love and beauty. Because we are alive, we are all still learning and growing, so there’s hope for us yet. The mysteries of the world contain so much space for wonderful change. Join us for this service that explores the hope embedded in the mystery of the universe. What’s the best that could happen?

In this season of thanksgiving, as we celebrate our relationships with loved ones, where do we put the not-so-helpful relationships? What does gratitude have to do with the teacher who didn’t see our promise, the parent who confused critique with support, or the co-worker whose ambition ran over our work? Come explore how our faith tradition helps us set down this weight and find a spirit of generosity for those who thought they were helping us.

What have you received, gotten for free, and what have you given away freely? On arrival, we begin contributing to the cycle of giving and receiving from one another and the abundance of Earth. How do our hearts learn to navigate feelings of scarcity and urge to share? How do we teach our children about the blessing of generosity?

Human beings contain an impulse towards generosity that grows when we feed it with empathy. As we increase our sense of connection, we are increasingly moved to share with an expanding sense of “we.” In Unitarian Universalism, and our church, we move democratically, with everyone pitching in and having a voice. Join us for this service that explores the power of generosity to build an ever-growing inclusive community.

Does altruism really exist? Does it matter? Sometimes generosity includes an assumption or a performance of selflessness. But what if the feedback loop between giving and receiving is natural, and healthy? Join us for this service where we explore the relationship between an abundance mindset, gratitude, and the healthy selfishness of generosity.

We create the heritage of the future intentionally or unintentionally. What’s worth passing on to those who come after us? What did we learn from our ancestors that served us well? What kind of ancestors do we want to be? Please join us this Sunday which will include a gentle ritual to honor our loved ones who have died.

Our nation is struggling to choose how to tell our histories to our children right now. Telling the story of the past tells us a lot about the present. Whose story gets told? Which pieces of our stories do we choose to carry forward, and why? Join us for this service where we explore carrying the stories we tell about our lives, our communities, and our country.