Peace on Earth, Peace in One’s Heart
We welcome to our puplit once again, Reverend Kenn Hurto.
Topic: Past Services
Opt-in or Opt-out? Which one are you?
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.
Celebrating 70 Years of 1stUUPB
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: What Strength Looks Like in Action
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?
Theology 101: An Introduction
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!
Adaptive Ministry
When one strand of the web is broken, the entire web is prone to collapse. When we in UU spaces speak of our 7th principle, belief in the interdependent web of all existence, we are not merely speaking in metaphors. Our existences are intricately woven with all life. When violence, oppression, and marginalization occur elsewhere … Continue reading Adaptive Ministry
Covenant Sunday
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
Honoring our Most Flawed Ancestors
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.
Baseball is (Clearly) God’s Favorite Sport
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.
Untapped Power. Unclaimed Joy.
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.