Some people think that if you strip away all the religious and theological dogma from a church, what do you have left to hold people together? What you have left is how you ARE together. If it is the journey and not the destination that unites us, then the only thing we have is how … Continue reading Covenant Sunday
Today, we honor that time of the year when the veil between the deceased and the living is at its most thin. Today, we honor those in our family lines who were not perfect maybe even so imperfect as to invoke a desire to allow them to remain veiled forever.
The perfect balance. The perfect balance of cause and effect. The perfect balance of intellectual and physical. The perfect balance of fast and slow. Ok. So, I’m a fan. But that doesn’t make me wrong.
Here at 1stUUPB, some of us are big doers. Some are big thinkers. If our thinking is divorced from our doing, we can end up spinning our spiritual hamster wheels and burning out our volunteers.
“Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” The golden rule…long a staple in many UU religious and theological cupboards. I hate to ruin it for you, but it needs to go.
Everyone sins against themselves or members of their community or loved ones – to err is to be human. Judaism asks us to come back into at-one-ness with all that is. You can strengthen yourself, your relationships, your communities by bringing yourself back into their flow. What a beautiful gesture made by this ancient religion … Continue reading At-One-Ment: The Jewish High Holy Days
Our Congregation has a long history with the PEACE organization. Come learn about how, together, we are changing the world, one county at a time.
Water Service with UUFBR
This weekend is a celebration of the working class, and the way we and they chose to celebrate was to simply get a day off…which we later filled with so many activities as to need a subsequent day off to recover. Self-care, rest and community are not always at odds with each other.
