With help from James Baldwin, we explore the experience of epiphany and its relationship to the willingness to admit mistakes and openness to change and creativity.

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | During the winter holiday season, sometimes we can feel out of sync with all the cheery music. We can feel a little left out. We explore that feeling in this service by exploring a folk story from eastern India called “The Sun Cow and the Thief.” In this time when … Continue reading The Sun Cow and the Thief

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Unitarian Universalists don’t really share a common belief about a hereafter. The call we hear and the sense of mission we feel comes from opening ourselves to the realities of Now.

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | The word ‘love’ gets used in so many ways meaning so many different things that it can seem like the word doesn’t mean anything anymore. But Unitarian Universalists are not going to stop using the word ‘love’ any time soon. In fact, we are leaning more and more into love. … Continue reading Love’s Definition

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | We live in an interconnected, interdependent world. Our lives and our living participates in all life. Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of life. But it’s not a static state. The web of life is constantly being woven. So, what does it mean to do interdependence?

Speaker: Rev. Joe Cleveland | Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman is often regarded as a Christian mystic and was effectively the godfather of the civil rights movement of the late ’50s to ’60s. He was thought of as a mentor and teacher by many civil rights leaders, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thurman’s book … Continue reading Howard Thurman, Present Now

Within the songs, poetry, candlelight, and sacred stories of Christmas Eve, we celebrate the re-birth of hope.