Choose Your Adventure in UU Worship
This Sunday, we invite you to reach beyond our congregation and experience another community’s worship service. We are providing links to other Unitarian Universalist congregations that meet in our time zone or have prerecorded services. Through the magic of the Internet, you can also explore another congregation of your choice. This might be a faith community from your past or one you want to learn more about. Click the image to be connected to the service you select.
Bring your openness and curiosity to this experience. At our service on August 2, we will share our explorations and reflect on what moved us and what we learned about meaningful worship.
Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (pacific)
Revolutionary Love:
Our Heritage + Our Future
Worship live with East Shore UU, Bellevue, WA.
From time to time it is good to recall and reclaim what centers our Unitarian Universalist faith tradition. We were born out of a spirit of revolutionary love, elemental yet profound, nearly four centuries ago. It is the spirit that sustained our integrity over and over. What does revolutionary love require of us at this pivotal, “make-it-or-break-it” time?
Sources of Our Living Tradition: Finding Jesus
Worship live with UU Church of Monterey Peninsula, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
I grew up with a Catholic Jesus. As a young atheist, I walked away from Christianity, and Jesus, whoever he was, was in my rear-view mirror. As a Unitarian theologian though, finding the historical Jesus became a holy quest, partly to dispel all the false beliefs about this figure, but, like Thomas Jefferson, it became about finding “diamonds in the dunghill.” And as a Buddhist, I began to recognize the signs of an “enlightened” person.
Allies
and
Advocates
Worship live with UU Community Church Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA.
As we seek to live into our values for social justice, many with very good intentions often end up saying nothing or saying the wrong thing, when they are called to lean into a conversation. Today we will talk about what it means to be an ally and an advocate — for an individual and for a cause. We will also talk about what you might say when what you are saying isn’t working.
Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 10:15 a.m. (pacific)
Personal Spiritual Identities
Worship live with First Unitarian Portland,
Portland, OR.
We are each unfinished, just as America is unfinished.
This July 4th weekend, America is not only celebrating the birthday of independence from England in 1776 but is also in the midst of a new birth of freedom that is happening on the streets of our nation in 2020. From small towns to major cities in all 50 states, Americans of many backgrounds and many generations are marching together, in the midst of a pandemic, to push for police reforms and an end to systemic racism. Americans of all kinds are waking up to the distortions of our humanity caused by the original “ invisible enemy” called racism. What is happening right now is an awakening of a "critical consciousness" in many people and in our national psyche.
prerecorded services
New Birth of Freedom
Enjoy this service from All Souls UU, Tulsa, OK.
We are each unfinished, just as America is unfinished. Earlier this month, America is not only celebrating the birthday of independence from England in 1776 but is also in the midst of a new birth of freedom that is happening on the streets of our nation in 2020. From small towns to major cities in all 50 states, Americans of many backgrounds and many generations are marching together, in the midst of a pandemic, to push for police reforms and an end to systemic racism. Americans of all kinds are waking up to the distortions of our humanity caused by the original “ invisible enemy” called racism. What is happening right now is an awakening of a "critical consciousness" in many people and in our national psyche.
Namaste
Enjoy this service from Bay Area UU, Houston, TX.
Acceptance of others can be our greatest challenge at times. It is hard to respect people who think and believe differently from us. And there seem to be more and more of them everywhere these days. How might seeing the Holy as dwelling in others as well as in ourselves help us to become more loving and compassionate? Our video service on July 19 will include music from our BAUUC Choir and a special online offering to support our efforts to promote service and justice in Texas.
Wholly War
Enjoy this service from Cedar Lane UU Church, Bethesda, MD.
Our society has been waging war on bodies: black bodies, brown bodies, disabled bodies, large bodies, small bodies... The body of Mother Earth… This war takes a toll physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and ecologically. What have UUs done to contribute to this war, what daily choices do we make to exacerbate and how can we choose differently so we can be liberated from our personal and collective war with white, cis, hetero-patriarchy?