With all we each have going in our days, it is so easy to slip into a sense of complacency with things that are going well in our lives. We forget to celebrate. Today, we celebrate and in so doing, we renew one of our circles that holds us: this congregation. More Info: Want to join … Continue reading Renewing Our Circle of Belonging

Today, we celebrate the Roman God Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings, for whom the month of January was named. More Info: Want to join us? Click the ‘Worship on Zoom or Facebook’ link at the top of our web page: www.1stuupb.org.

A morning service. A quiet time, a time of reflection on winter, slowing down and living with both intention and attention.

A traditional service of singing hymns. Prepare yourself for the season by singing along.

We are confronted with decisions on a nearly minute-by-minute basis. When we weigh these options, we tend to have a default…a most common way to make “safe” decisions for ourselves.

Seventy years ago this year, a small group of people gathered for the first time. They had answered an advertisement in the newspaper (remember those?). Spiritual seekers, churchgoers of a different design, soon to discover that they might be Unitarians, and later, Unitarian Universalists. They are those who came before us and theirs is and … Continue reading Celebrating 70 Years of 1stUUPB

Gratitude is an ordinary word. We all know what it means when we hear it, we all can use it in a sentence. But what underlies gratitude? What needs to be there for gratitude to exist? How much of that comes from the the outside and how much comes from the grateful themselves?

Today, we will look at theology. What it is across a wide array of applications and why it matters. Theology, its not just for academics!