Spiritual Explorations – Wednesday, March 15 – 7-9pm Spiritual Explorations is a small group ministry program that helps people go deeper than the Sunday morning church experience. We use the monthly theme as a starting point for discussion. For March, the theme is “What does it mean to be a community of risk?” The group will … Continue reading March Explorations Packet – “Risk”
Matt Alspaugh
Introduction
Last week, Liz and I returned from a two week Spanish immersion program in the Yucatán, in Mexico. The immersion was a lovely mix of several things: language, certainly, but also art, culture, and history. For the first week. our maestra, a local college level language teacher, worked with us in both Spanish, but could explain in English if necessary. For the second week, we had a different instructor who knew little English, or else pretended that he new little English, so we had to communicate in Spanish. and if that didn’t work, he was an actor so we ended up doing a lot of miming and acting stuff out.
The fourth of a multi-part series on putting our Principles in Practice. We will focus on the prophetic call embedded in our Principles. We live in a world filled with fake news, spin, gaslighting, and lies at the highest levels. But truthseeking and truthtelling is an important spiritual virtue. We consider our fourth principal’s “free … Continue reading Feb 12, 2017 – “What is True, Anyway?”
What does being a Unitarian Universalist, or a supporter of this faith mean to you? Additionally, what might it mean for us to explore our “Unitarian Universalist Identities”, especially in the times we find ourselves in? As the theme for the month of February is “Identity” in many Unitarian Universalist Congregations around the country, let’s … Continue reading Feb 5, 2017 – “Nurturing Our UU Identities for Such Times as These”
Spiritual Explorations – Wednesday, February 15 – 7-9pm Spiritual Explorations is a small group ministry program that helps people go deeper than the Sunday morning church experience. We use the monthly theme as a starting point for discussion. For February, the theme is “What does it mean to be a community of identity?” The group will … Continue reading February Explorations Packet – “Identity”
What’s your Frontline? The post election has left us asking ourselves, how do we, even can we resist? We explore asking What’s your Frontline? and move forward with experiences, examples and affirming our UU values. “When faced with Challenges and Seasons of uncertainty, especially as we look for joy, love and peace, how can we … Continue reading Jan 29, 2017 – “What’s Your Frontline?”
The third of a multi-part series on putting our Principles in Practice. We will focus on the prophetic call embedded in our Principles. However we live our lives, meekly, just getting by, or vastly, as activists or change agents, we need ways to face the storms that life brings before us. We’ll explore how we … Continue reading Jan 22, 2017 – “Strength in the Storm”
The second of a multi-part series on putting our Principles in Practice. We will focus on the prophetic call embedded in our Principles. A favorite Bible verse is Amos 5:24 “Let justice roll down like a river, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” In an era when justice for all is under increasing attack, we … Continue reading Jan 15, 2017 – “Let Justice Roll Down Like a River”
The first of a multi-part series on putting our Principles in Practice. We will focus on the prophetic call embedded in our Principles. The election showed us many things. That many votes – the majority, in fact – did not count. But more fundamentally, that great swaths of people in this country feel they don’t … Continue reading Jan 8, 2017 – “Every Person Counts”
Our Christmas Day service offers time to be in the presence of each other, enjoying selections from Olivier Messiaen’s wonderful mid-century piece “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus” (“Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus”) played by Marcellene Hawk, interspersed with readings and silence.
