Past Services can be found at the UUCSS YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/c/UUCSS
This is a sermon about listening. And yet, I’m not sure I feel quite up to the task of taking more in. Maybe you can relate. I have been sick, so I began the week trying to listen to my body. Then a snowstorm happened, and school was cancelled for three days. So, like other…
Long, long ago a prince was raised inside a beautiful palace. His family loved him so, and because they didn’t want him to suffer, they shielded him from all of the harsh and unpleasant things in life. He grew up unfamiliar with illness, death, and poverty until one day he left his gilded cage and…
Private health insurance has been under scrutiny this week after a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare on Wednesday. The murder opened a sort of emotional steam valve, and people on social media have used humor to express their rage at a system that’s denied them and their loved ones care, sometimes resulting in…
This week we had guest preacher Ryan Ely. Watch the full service on YouTube!
When I was 21, I did a fabulous internship program through the Unitarian Universalist Association, that focused on service and spirituality, but also Unitarian Universalist history. One of the first things we did was take a field trip to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Most of the day was spent at the UU church there, doing a workshop…
This service did not have a distinct message segment, but rather was a tapestry of rituals, a litany and beautiful music. Watch the full video on YouTube!
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…
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.
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…
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…