When we are forming relationships, it is often the case that vulnerability is the first thing we look for in others and the last thing we reveal in ourselves. Being vulnerable is often considered a weakness. But our lack of willingness to be vulnerable with those we trust inhibits our ability to ask for help when we need it. What if we thought of asking for help as a gift we could offer to others?

Poets from antiquity to today have lifted up the risks inherent in loving anything mortal, and remind us that such love can be rewarding and even holy. Join us for Rev. Jim’s first sermon with us as he explores how we can grow when we take a chance on love, and the ways that love can outlive our lives.

Love does not have to be reciprocal, but it grows when it is shared. We feel the love growing in our communities as we come back together in person. Being together in person shows the different ways that love is embodied, but it doesn’t happen all at once. Our community is in the process of resurrecting love. The love we share now feels more poignant, because of the empty places where people used to sit, the losses that live among the joys.

Loving just one thing opens the door to love itself, which saunters in and changes our lives. As we grow with love, we find how our unique gifts contribute to the whole. Each of us has something beautiful to offer the world: a blessing that is ours alone to give. When we tap into loving the whole, and ourselves, we find the intersection of what the world needs, and what is uniquely ours to give. Join us for this service where we let love’s gateway drug open us to our calling.

Unitarian Universalism is grounded in love. The easiest way to sum up the UU faith might be “Love is God,” or “Love is the most powerful force in the universe.” Our tradition is living—without a creed, we learn, adapt and grow with time and new knowledge. There have been many turning points in our faith’s history, and each time we turn towards more love. Join us for this service where we celebrate our progress in the Forge Our Future campaign, and learn how love has grounded our growth as a people.

What stories do we tell ourselves to make sense of the ever-uncertain world? What saviors do we search for in calamity? And how might we be better served as people of covenantal faith if we center ourselves in questions and wonder?

What stories do we tell ourselves to make sense of the ever-uncertain world? What saviors do we search for in calamity? And how might we be better served as people of covenantal faith if we center ourselves in questions and wonder?

“The centre cannot hold,” William Butler Yeats wrote in his famous 1919 dystopian lament following the first World War. Sometimes it feels like the world is spinning in ever-widening chaos, and yet our faith calls us to embrace a widening circle. How do we balance our values of inclusion, centering the margins, when the world feels off-kilter? Join us for this Martin Luther King Day service where we bring the universe’s propensity to orbit as a balm to the ever-widening gyre of the world, and weave practicing our values with soothing our weary souls.

Our community has a center, too, one which has been rocked by the pandemic and the changes it has wrought. How do we find our way back to each other, how do we return to a place and also know it for the first time? Join us for this service where we learn how to find the center of our communal body, balance in it, and use it to reimagine our future together.

How do we even find our center in this busy, chaotic world? In body-centered practices, your “center” is a real, physical place within, findable and learnable. How does that place relate to the center of your well-being, your life, your values? Join us for this service where we journey to find our center, listen to its truth, and reach to embody practices that will help us live there.