72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
A just democracy depends on protecting the right of all citizens to have a voice in the governance of our society. The ACT strives to assure these rights for all. How do our UU values call us to champion citizens’ right to vote and have a say in shaping our nation?
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
Join us as we explore the ways that taking care of each other—as citizens, as neighbors, as members of a beloved community—nurtures justice alongside heath and well-being.
Worship Leader: Rev Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
We are told that “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Join us as we kick off our drive to grow our community in resources, depth, spirit, and impact.
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Ginger Hemingway
Researcher Brené Brown shares a message of the power of vulnerability and curiosity in our lives and our relationships. Join us as we explore openheartedness together.
Worship Leader: Jonathan Fast, PhD
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Dr. Fast will talk about building community, and shame, the unspoken emotion that can ruin a life or rend a nation in two. He will talk about a recent personal shaming experience (regarding his writing) and how he dealt with it.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Sometimes we respond to the challenge of a new way of doing things with unconscious assumptions about how we are already acting in the world. How can the conversations about automobiles, marijuana, and other issues help us be more curious and imaginative?
Worship Leader: Rev Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
Every yarn is different. Cotton, wool, acrylic, silk all feel different as you knit or weave or crochet and each creates a different fabric with unique qualities. Our relationships, too, ask us to be attentive and intentional in unique ways with each individual and situation. Join us as we explore the fabric of relationship.
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Bryna Blum
The value we’re focusing on this month is Equity. How can we continue to expand our practice of radical inclusion and joyous welcome.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Join us as Rev. Ian explores the ideas of two theologians: one an 11th century Sufi and one a 20th century Unitarian. What might these two thinkers separated by time and culture share with us about doing good in the world?
Worship Leader: Michael Mullins
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Join us as we welcome Michael Mullins, Deacon in Training at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert. Michael is leading the creation of Laundry Love here in the valley, offering people offering people in need access to laundry services. Join us as Michael shares his story and the grounding of this needed work.
Worship Leader: Lauren N. Nile
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
The concept of equity is as crucial today to our American society, to the world, and to our future, as it ever has been. But what is equity? Why is equity so critical to both our future as a nation, and as a species? What risks does continued inequity in economics, education and other important areas pose to our future? What are the unimaginable results of a world in which equity is valued and practiced? What are we, as moral, ethical people, called to do in humanity’s maturation toward greater global equity?
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Join us as we celebrate the volunteers that help our community grow and thrive. We’ll also welcome new members to the congregation and celebrate the arrival of new life!
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Ginger Hemingway
Where can we find richness in life that has nothing to do with money and possessions? What might it mean to be rich in spirit? Join us as we explore developing a deeper and more transformative life of the spirit.
Worship Leader: Peter Mathews
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
The connotation of the very word “reality" can turn us away. But, in all religions and prophetic thought, reality is a window into an emotional state of inner peace. Christians call it heaven. Buddhists call it nirvana. Reality is truth, and the truth does indeed set us free. And this freedom is available even in the most horrific of times.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Denise Janssen Eager
The world around us, the world we are an integral part of, is changing in drastic and dangerous ways. Where can we find hope? Where can we build hope? Might science and science fiction show us a way? Might there be a spiritual path to hope?
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
The world offers us each beauty and possibility if we just look. Join us as we celebrate the beautiful diversity of the world in a return of our Flower Communion. Bring some flowers to share. Our annual congregational meeting follows this week’s service.
Worship Leaders: Ian Challis
Worship Associate:
Bryna Blum
Respecting the preciousness of this human embodiment and living a life of internal balance in a world of change.
Worship Leader: Jim Tong and the UUCOD Choir
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell and Joni Padduck
Join us as we celebrate the power of music to uplift and console and inspire us. Our UUCOD Choir, under the direction of Jim Tong brings us the gift of song and spirit today. And the congregation gets to sing as well!
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Claudia Simmons
All year we have been exploring the values laid out in proposed new language crafted to share what we UUs hold in common as we do the work of crafting the beloved community together. Join us as Rev. Ian sums up or year of exploration and as we look forward to doing our own work of visioning for this beloved community in the year to come.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, honoring those people who have given their lives in the service of their country. How are we honoring their legacy? How are we taking care of those who still serve or have retired?