Appreciating the wisdom of traditions like Día de Muertos and All Souls Day and Samhain, today is our annual service of remembrance and honor and gratitude for our beloveds who have died.

Tomorrow is the Hindu holiday of Ayudha Puja. It is a day for expressing gratitude, and even reverence, for the tools that help us to live our lives. We honor the wisdom in this tradition by considering the tools and the technology that are woven into and ubiquitous in the way we live today. How … Continue reading Machined Soul

It is important for us to recognize and honor our heritage. However, sometimes we can wish our heritage was a little different than it was. We can wish that at certain moments our ancestors had made different decisions than they did. We can often wish this of ourselves. To live with a sense of wholeness, … Continue reading What If Heritage

It is a truism these days to say we live in times of significant change—but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true! In many ways, we’re entering a new world culturally and nationally, and also locally and as a congregation. How can we best appreciate the real impact of the feeling that we’re always encountering something … Continue reading Brave New World

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Much in our cultures and society tries to teach us to look at our world through the lens of scarcity. A liberal religious impulse is to teach abundance. What if we just have enough? Might a spiritual practice of leaning into enough or sufficiency lead us to an experience of … Continue reading Making More of Enough

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Today we explore welcoming as a spiritual practice by contemplating the intentional and unconscious barriers that limit our practice of welcoming, and what sources of inspiration we might discover when we are able to tear some of those barriers down.

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | The resurrection of Jesus was and is no mistake. Neither is Passover and the liberation of the Jews from Egypt. But finding resurrection, renewal, and liberation in our own lives can be more difficult. One thing we can count on is that we make mistakes. So today we explore the … Continue reading Whoops, Resurrection: Finding Renewal in Making Mistakes

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Our “Summer of Song” series concludes by acknowledging the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and exploring the spiritual practice of imagination through the teachings of “Imagine,” by John Lennon.

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Today we explore the complexities of what Unitarian Universalists believe with the help of “(Ours Is a) Simple Faith” by David Tamulevich.

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | “I’m trying to tell you something about my life,” sing the Indigo Girls in their song, “Closer to Fine.” The song appears not just once but three times in the Barbie movie, which was directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig, who was raised Unitarian Universalist. Today we’ll get help from … Continue reading Getting Closer to Fine