Unitarian Universalism carries deep roots of resistance, grounded in the centering of our values. Our faith ancestors claimed their power by questioning, reasoning, and choosing how to shape a world that bends toward love and justice. Today, as we confront rising authoritarianism, we ask: What messages and movements from our UU past will inspire and guide our resistance now?

In an electrical system, the resistor puts the resistance where it needs to be—most systems would explode if the resistance was in the wrong place. As we practice resistance in community, learning rules and roles and values alignment, let’s make sure we put our resistance in the right place. Join us for this Dr. King Sunday worship service where we honor our resistance ancestors and explore our own community’s recipes for resistance.

In any practice, there is a sweet spot, a balance of strength and release. In practices of resistance, we must discern between resistance and surrender. How do which to choose? What can we change, and what must we try to change even if we fail? When is it time to let go? Join us for this worship service where we explore the discernment dance between resistance and surrender.

We know the power of ritual helps us mark time, honor the past, and step with intention into the future. Together, let us boldly embrace our next adventure. Join us as we release what has been and welcome the new year with joy and purpose. This Sunday, our children and youth will be with us in the sanctuary, sharing in the celebration!

In difficult times, it can help to find hope in what is real and available. In the middle of the darkest night of the year, we can hope to see the moon. In the cold and quiet months, we can hope to plant the seeds of a new life that will bloom in warmer times. Darkness also has a generative beauty. Join us for this worship service where we explore finding real hope here and now, no matter how hard the moment may be.

While we can look at circumstances and make our best guess about outcomes, we never truly know what will happen. This means we always have the opportunity to choose hope over fear. Join us for this service that explores the power we have to affect our own lives and our community with the power of choosing hope.

As we turn toward our complicated national holiday of gratitude, how can we courageously hold the hard truths with an open heart? Let us explore how to be genuinely grateful together, anchoring our hearts in what is authentic as we appreciate life’s blessings.

Some of us are born into a practice of sharing gratitude that can at time feel performative.  Of course, we should show gratitude when shown grace and or generosity, but what happens when life is filled with insurmountable struggle, pain and grief? Is showing/giving gratitude ever a privilege?

What if weeping not only endures for the night, but also stays through the joy of the morning? It can be hard to nurture gratitude in the midst of a season of grief. And yet, authentic gratitude is large enough to hold grief at the same time. Our hearts are big enough to hold the largeness of love and the sorrow of loss. Join us for this service that explores a real spiritual practice of gratitude that does not bypass the losses, but finds a road to a cup large enough to hold all of it. New Member Ceremony.

At GA 2025, our delegates chose Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation as our denomination-wide study-action issue. In order to begin thinking about prison abolition, we need to be able to imagine the world in which it is possible. What needs to change in order to get everyone truly free? It starts with theology, believe it or not.