Worship Service at 10:30 AM; Hybrid services have prelude and/or opening music starting between 10:25 am and 10:30 am.

UUCSS holds hybrid services (offering both online and in-person in the Sanctuary). Details about upcoming services can be found at https://uucss.org/event-category/upcoming-sunday-services/

If you wish to attend in person, the sanctuary is at 10309 New Hampshire Avenue, at the corner with Oaklawn Drive. We have a parking lot off Oaklawn Drive Directions can be found at https://uucss.org/contact/campus-locations/. Please follow our UUCSS guidelines, https://uucss.org/uucss-covid-guidelines/.  

To participate remotely, please enter our Zoom room by clicking on Zoom Link for Worship, ASL and Coffee Hour, on Sundays between 10:00 am and 10:30 am during the Slide Show and Prelude, or later while the service is occurring. You can also just click the direct link in the Sunday morning all-church email reminder. 

American Sign Language Interpretation will be available live during the service, either in the sanctuary or remotely. In either case, the ASL Interpreter will be visible two ways – merged into the main video feed from the sanctuary (if present locally in the sanctuary), and as a Zoom participant with their own Zoom window.

For guidance on deaf participation via Zoom, please visit https://www.uucss.org/deaf-access, or view the guidance provided on slides shown prior to the Prelude.

For information about our Religious Education program, visit https://uucss.org/uucss-religious-education-classes/

Coffee Hour begins at about 11:30 am, both in person and on the same Zoom session as the worship service, and can be accessed at this Link: Coffee Hour. The ASL interpreter will generally be available during Coffee Hour, in an ASL breakout room or whichever room deaf participants choose to join.

Past Services can be found at the UUCSS YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/c/UUCSS.

 

Come What May – Rev. Kristin G Schmidt

Here we are again, at a fork in the road of this nation, indeed this world. Here we are again, hearts brimming with some mixture of determination and disbelief, cautious hope and anxiety. Here we are again, four – eight – years later, waiting for Election Day to come. This is hardly the first time…

Remembrance Sunday

This week we did not have a sermon, but instead had a ritual to honor our beloved dead. Watch the video on YouTube if you would like to see this ritual.

Monster Love: Making Room on the Broom – Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg

October, y’all, is a particularly delightful time to be queer.  Anne of Green Gables, the character written by L. M. Montgomery famously said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,” and many a non fictional queer has felt similarly. This is the month where we celebrate National Coming Out Day, where the weather begins to allow us…

Grieving for Revolutionary Love – Rev. Kristin G Schmidt

Thirty years ago a movie called Corrina, Corrina came out starring Whoopi Goldberg, heartthrob Ray Liotta, and a very young Tina Majorino. Set in the 1950s, it’s a story about a lot of things. But the plot centers on a little girl named Molly who stopped speaking after her mother died. Molly’s father is devastated…

From An Extractive Age to a New Era – Rev. Kristin G Schmidt

I heard a metaphor yesterday, told by Tripp Fuller, a favorite podcaster of mine. Tripp has three kids, and he lives in the South, so his family invested in a small above-ground pool. Because anyone with kids these days knows that if you want them to get off electronics and do something outside in the…

Tipping Point : Fall Equinox – Bob Geiger

A tipping point is where a small change can have a big impact. Tipping points can be times of danger, but also of opportunity and possibility. Because small changes can lead to a big impact, that means each of us can have a significant role to play in history. This time of year, at the…

Nurturing Wonder for Revolutionary Love – Rev. Kristin G. Schmidt

Along with 67 million other Americans, I tuned into Tuesday night’s presidential debate. In what might have been a questionable parenting decision, I allowed my kids to stay up and watch it with me. While we may not share every detail when they ask us political questions, they hear things in the car with us when we have NPR on and they come home with questions because of things their friends have said. So, we tell them the truth as best we can in age-appropriate ways. 

The Love We Carry – Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg

This summer a big thing happened at our Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregation’s General Assembly- delegates of our far flung congregations had our final vote on whether or not to change article two of our bylaws.

That sounds incredibly boring and dry, maybe. But this is the piece of our bylaws that is our covenant- the piece so many of us have pointed to for decades as the explanation of what defines us Unitarian Universalists.