Tenebrae is a service that recognizes the suffering of Jesus on Good Friday. For UUs, it’s a chance to share the stories of suffering in current world. This quiet service ends in darkness, with only the extinguished candles as hope for the new beginning of Easter Sunday. INTRO Rev. Denis Letourneau Paul Welcome to Our Good Friday Tenebrae Service. I wanted to start…
In any nation, the flag is a symbol loaded with meaning, but the United States these days, that seems to be the case more than ever. For some of us it’s about who we want to be; for some it’s about something that never will be. Who is included? And who is left out? The service will be followed by a special…
Ralph Waldo Emerson once called William Ellery Channing, the “father” of Unitarianism in America, a public conscience. As someone who was excluded from — actually thrown out of — the Congregational Church, he was always framing ethics and morality in terms of inclusion. Who, he asked, in his own way, was being left out? The first Sunday of each month is Food…
Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. It’s so cliche it’s almost painful. But all you have to do to see the truth of the statement is to look around at the artwork in our congregation. Everything we do that has visual or physical presence elicits a wide variety of responses. The easiest way to deal with that differences…
We’re all on our own separate journeys of life, and today, right now, those journeys have converged at this church. What does it mean to be part of a church’s journey, and how does being part of a church shape our journeys? Michelle Ma, a California native who is really loving Ohio, received her Masters in Divinity from the Pacific School of…
What if the impossible happened, and on a regular day you encountered things you never could have imagined in your wildest dreams? What response would your experience spark in you? (NO AUDIO AVAILABLE–LAURA)
(With a special performance by Terry DeTar) Our Wayside Pulpit this month proclaims “there are many paths but only one journey.” The journey is that important. It’s important enough that it’s the thing that in our Bond of Union we promise to do together. But maybe the journey and the destination aren’t as important as the the way we go. Maybe the…
How do we live into a lifelong journey of spiritual growth? The first step is to start with being present to where you are in your life now, and having the courage to go inward. And then to keep going…. Join Rev. Rina as we ponder spiritual growth from the inside out and back again!
Words are spiritual. Words have shaped us, individually and collectively on our journey. These words, that thrill us, the ones that scare us, and the ones we refuse to say, they ALL MATTER. They are all a part of defining who we are as a spiritual being and community. Barbara Walker is a candidate for Credentialed Lay Minister at West Shore UU…
In the game of chess, a gambit is an opening move whereby a pawn is strategically sacrificed in order to create an advantage. Which kind of sounds like a Cold War move made across the iron curtain. But simply walking around can be a different kind of gambit. It just requires experiencing things a little differently.