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.
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.
This service did not have a dedicated sermon, but rather stories reflecting on Labor day and some wonderful music. Check out the full service on YouTube!
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.
Norbert Čapek, author and composer of the hymn today’s service is focused on, was a Czech minister, born and raised Catholic, who found his way to Unitarianism via the Baptist church. He composed the hymn we just sang, “Mother Spirit, Father Spirit.” I am an atheist. I’m sure I’m not the only one in the…
This summer our kids are taking on the Olympics in their worship breakout groups- talking about how the themes of the Olympics connect with our UU values, and also our goal of world community, our goal of being where we are and who we are and also appreciating the wider human experience. They’ve been building…
Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the sea
Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.
Roots hold me close; wings set me free
Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me
I was appalled when I heard the news that schools in Louisiana are now required to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Along with exasperation and outrage at such a blatantly unconstitutional mandate, it raises a lot of questions. How and why did they choose the particular version of the Ten Commandments each classroom must display? And why waste time and resources on performative religion when they could be used instead to, say, provide free breakfast and lunch to all schoolchildren.
This week there was not a dedicated message, but rather multiple ceremonies and celebrations! Check out what we did through the YouTube link attached!
This week we did not have a sermon but rather sang hymns that were suggested by the congregation together! You can watch and/or listen through the YouTube link below. Here is a list of hymns we sang: #1021 Lean on Me #212 We are Dancing Sarah’s Circle #1064 Blue Boat Home #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire #1 May Nothing…
Not long ago, a woman was robbed while walking on the sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the victim of the crime, and yet when the police arrived, they arrested her. Despite her lack of a criminal past, the judge set her bail at $25,000, an impossible sum for a mother of seven. This meant she had to stay in jail until her trial, which didn’t come for two whole months. While in jail she lost her job, she and her kids suffered distress and anxiety, and her extended family all had to pitch in to keep the family together. That’s the story of how the cash bail system in Cleveland nearly destroyed one woman’s life and family.