Spiritual Practices
Prayer, meditation, walking, journaling, chanting, yoga…all these can be spiritual practices. On this Sunday, we explore individual spiritual practices and their role in shaping us toward the life we want to lead.
Prayer, meditation, walking, journaling, chanting, yoga…all these can be spiritual practices. On this Sunday, we explore individual spiritual practices and their role in shaping us toward the life we want to lead.
Compassion for others is a key virtue of the world’s religious traditions. But we sometimes neglect its corollary: compassion for ourselves. This Sunday, we revisit the concept of self-compassion.
We are a congregation of people who don’t believe in God, people who love God, people who find a higher power deep inside, and people who find it in the interconnectedness of all existence…and people in between and who don’t know exactly what we believe. This Sunday we explore the idea of God.
As we witness the war and violence in our world, this Sunday we share prayer and contemplation for peace.(note: Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday, so remember to set your clocks lest you be late to church!)
Molly writes: “What makes a place home? How do we find it? How do we put down roots through repeated upheaval? What happens when home is no longer safe? Perspectives range from climate change refugees to queer chosen family in an intentional community to the grief of visiting one’s childhood home when someone else lives … Continue reading Ubi Caritas Et Amor Deus Ibi Est
Even God rested, say the scriptures shared by Jewish and Christian traditions. How might we incorporate practices of rest and Sabbath in a culture that refuses to rest?
Admitting to and sharing about our faults and weaknesses helps us to become more loveable—both to ourselves and to others. As we become more real, more relatable and more genuine, we share in our common humanity.
Our experience of this pandemic time has been fragmented. Parents, elders, health care workers, food workers, workers-from-home, folks in retirement…we have had different and contradictory experiences of these last two years. This Sunday, we hear from each other about what our piece of the picture has looked like.
These are stormy times for many of us as we let go of 2021 and enter 2022. What are the relationships with self and spirit that we can cultivate to weather the big storms in our own lives and the life of the world in this coming year? What are the safe harbors we can … Continue reading Safe Harbors in Times of Big Storms
We are a Unitarian Universalist church. Why does that matter? What does that identity mean and where does it call us?