What do we do when we fail to live in our integrity, as individuals or as a people?

Unitarianism has its roots in Puritanism, baking a rigorous distinction between good and bad into our culture. On the other hand, Universalism has its roots in mercy and grace, honoring the inherent worth of all people beyond our worst mistakes.

How do we return to integrity when we make mistakes, how do we return to covenant when we break it, and how do we learn to see ourselves whole through all of it?

Join us for this Sunday service where we explore what to do when we fail to live into our integrity.

There is a difference between saying you have integrity and living it. There is no pretending with integrity. We can’t have integrity unless we practice living it.

What are your core values and how do you live them out in daily life? Do our self-proclaimed values match how others experience us? Integrity doesn’t happen just once. It takes practice, although there are usually some defining moments.

Join us this Sunday while we explore living examples of integrity.

Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” As we move into a new year, faced with urgent demands for equity and justice, let’s reflect on the power and necessity of community.

The magnitude of our universe—time and space, black holes and galaxies, quantum physics and the theory of relativity—can be fearsome. How do we mere humans gain perspective in a world that has evolved in geologic time? What is our small contribution to the cosmos, and how might knowing the scale of the cosmos contribute to our small lives?

Join us for this service that explores the awesome fear of the holy whole of time and space.

Humans are some of the most powerful, resilient, destructive, and connected creatures on the planet. We have an incredible capacity for love and beauty, as well as a shocking capacity for destruction. How can we nurture the better aspects of human nature?

Join us for this service that explores the power of human connection and resilience in the face of suffering.

As Unitarian Universalists around the country grapple with what, if anything, connects us, questions of power and authority create narratives about how we are and aren’t in relationship. Rev. Marcus Fogliano will speak on the subject of Congregational Polity, the 1600’s document that defines how our faith is organized, and how our faith and language has changed over the centuries.

Rev. Marcus Fogliano (They/Them/Theirs) is the Project Manager for the Commission on Institutional Change at the Unitarian Universalist Association, and seminarian at Meadville Lombard Theological School. Marcus is an intersectional advocate in Illinois, and finds their calling in Unitarian Universalism as an Institutional Minister. As an ordained former Jehovah’s Witness, they spend a lot of time thinking about faith organizational and institutional systems, and what wisdoms for world religions around systems are useful to UUism as a faith movement.

In today’s political climate, being a Welcoming Congregation requires more of us than simply opening our doors to LGBTQ people. We are called to the work of transformation of our selves and our awareness, transformation of our congregation and its culture, and transformation of our wider community and world. In this service, guest speaker Zr. Alex Kapitan, a queer and transgender UU leader, will preach on what it will take to embody this sort of radical welcome—the kind of welcome that can ultimately transform us all.

When we pay attention to one thing, we necessarily ignore a lot of others. How do we balance a wider, more panoramic view with zeroing in on something important? The Latin root of attention literally means ‘to stretch towards.’

Come join us for this service that explores making space for the new information that comes as a result of widening perspective, and how to balance the panorama with stretching towards new things.

Paying attention implies a transaction, a currency. We pay attention, we give and receive attention, there is a current of energy moving between us.

Paying attention is a way of investing in what we value. We pay attention to what we need or who needs us. Some would say that what we pay attention to is who we are.

Join us as we honor our pastoral care ministry this Sunday, a priceless way of paying attention that helps to heal lives.

A turtle carries its home wherever it goes in the world. How can we humans build our own containers of belonging that travel with us? How can we learn to be at home in the world, with the divine, and when confronting ultimate mystery?

Join us for this Halloween/All Souls Day service where we explore being at home in life and in death.