You may have heard it said, “He who asks a question risks being a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn’t ask risks being a fool forever.” For this Sunday, the minister invites you to send him questions you’d like to be answered during the sermon portion of worship. It’s a risky proposition in … Continue reading “Any Questions?”
Service at the Beach – Maxine Barritt Park Lots of us go to the beach to enjoy the sunset. What do you think is beyond the horizon that’s visible to you that evening?
Indigenous Peoples’ Day At the Battle of Little Big Horn, indigenous Americans stood up to an attacking force of federals. We know a lot about the battle, but it’s still hard to separate fact from fake news.
The meaning of the term ‘breaking news’ has been all but destroyed by its overuse in broadcast media. But sometimes a news item does change the way the world looks, at least on a very small scale.
The late Yale theologian Letty Russell’s life’s work was to overcome the oppression and exclusion of those who are “different,” which she said includes all of us in some way. She said we don’t just practice hospitality for no reason – by welcoming the stranger, we entertain angels without knowing it. … Continue reading “Just Hospitality”
We religious liberals often look askance at those who take sacred texts literally and uncritically as “the inerrant word of God.” How is it possible, then, that we’d ever fall prey to the same failings?
This congregation’s covenant with its minister says, “It is a basic premise of this Congregation that the pulpit is free and untrammeled.” In our UU traditions, what’s that mean? And what are the responsibilities of the people in the chairs? https://youtu.be/VkLNGL641CU
Our settled minister, Rev. Khleber Van Zandt, returns to the pulpit this Sunday morning, and we welcome Lise Frank, our new pianist to our sanctuary. The biblical story of Noah is, on the surface, about a righteous man and his family who survive the Great Flood. If the flood never happened, and if Noah never … Continue reading “Alone in Deep Water”
Rev. Mara Dowdall, Senior Minister, First UU Society, Burlington, Vermont The poet Naomi Shihab Nye speaks of “the shared world,” in which we connect deeply with one another in and through our differences. As we navigate this time of peril and possibility, beauty and anguish, despair and resistance, how might a theology and practice of … Continue reading “The Shared World”
In a country that has yet to ‘come of age,’ it’s time for this congregation – whose birthday we celebrate in this service – to leave its adolescence behind. https://youtu.be/bC-PnjHbl8E
