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