Relationships or Beliefs?

Relationships or Beliefs?

This will be Theresa I. Soto’s last sermon as the UUCS intern minister. Theresa will reflect on some of the blessings of this time with the congregation. We will have a chance to consider some of the complexity of creating Beloved Community that respects and engages both theist and non-theist belief systems. We will also say goodbye and take time to reflect on the strengths of the congregation’s hospitality and its ethical implications. It will be a great conclusion to a grand adventure.
Celebrant: David Jeffers, Anchor: L.J. Fredrickson
First and Second Service Music: Ted Cory

Turn the other cheek?

What did Jesus really mean when he said to ‘turn the other cheek’? What if he wasn’t advocating passivity
as opposed to violence, but something entirely different?
Celebrant: Arrhiannon Kirkpatrick, Anchor: Steve Rosen
First Service Music: UUCS Choir
Second Service Music: Ryan Amend & Aimee Larsen-Amend

Who Is My Neighbor?

Rabbi Debra Kolodny and Theresa I. Soto will be presenting on respectful engagement with Judaism, both
for non-Jews and people practicing Unitarian Universalism who identify as Jewish. The Six Sources of Unitarian
Universalism identify Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our
neighbors as ourselves as part of our covenantal context. What does that mean for us today? What does it mean
for people who do not identify with either of those traditions? Come find out more.
Celebrant: Dave Jeffers, Anchor:Gloria Holland
First Service Music: Ryan Amend & Aimee Larsen-Amend
Second Service Music: UUCS Choir

In The Beginning

Why is there something instead of nothing? How did anything come to be? What is human creativity? Why is this important? By thus raising questions we open our hearts and minds.
Celebrant: Arrhiannon Kirkpatrick, Anchor: Joanne Manson
Music: Sara Greenleaf

It’s A Stretch

Many years ago I shared a large apartment right across from the Zen Buddhist Center in San Francisco with an assortment of other idealistic young spiritual seekers who drifted in and out of my life. One of our more colorful roommates was Luis, a likeable, worldly fellow from a wealthy family in Columbia who had … Continue reading It’s A Stretch

Name Your Poison

It may be time to give “sin” a rest. But the reality it names can still cause harm. Is there another way to look at
this?

Winter Solstice

Celebrate the return of the sun and the birth of the light. 3rd Annual event with ritual and fellowship to celebrate the Winter Solstice and Yule. Any an All are invited to attend this special event to welcome the end of the darkness of winter and the light of hope.

Compassionate Connection

Are you going through a hard time? Would you like to feel the compassionate support of others? Please join us in the front of the sanctuary, following service, for Compassionate Connection, a time when we lay our hands upon those in distress and our minister offers a prayerful reflection. We also invite other members to … Continue reading Compassionate Connection