72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694
Worship Leader: Mel Wilkinson
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Join me as we delve into the journey of the ukulele and try to answer the question: Is drinking alcohol the better way to play a ukulele?
Worship Leader: Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, Michigan
UUCOD Coordinator: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Join us as we share in the Sunday service from the 2023 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly shared with Unitarian Universalists around the country and around the world. We will have a short service at our normal time of 10:00am in the Sanctuary. If you wish to watch from home you can find the link in the newsletter or in the email sent on 6/22. Note that the LIVE stream of the service will start at 8:00am Pacific.
Worship Leaders : Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, we take a look at the state of our democracy and wonder together how to stay true to our values while resisting hatred, fear, and prejudice.
Worship Leader: Jack Fitzsimmons
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Jack's post-surgical journey and his emerging practice of gratitude.
Worship Leader: Steven Toporoff
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
We may find ourselves disappointed at times when our Church and religious leaders fail to meet our expectations. Let’s learn from two world beliefs - Taoism and the Baha’i Faith - how to manage expectations when living in community.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
What do a TV show about soccer, a musical about hippies, and fast-food toys tell us about masculinity, gender, and embracing diversity?
Worship Leader: Harriet Rossetto
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Meeting the emotional, existential and spiritual challenges of the human condition.
Worship Leader: Rev. Dr. Sharon
Asherah Siegel
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Rev. Dr. Sharon Asherah Siegel will share some of the rituals of The Goddess Temple of Palm Springs. She will address the need for feeling spiritual at this time of uncertainty in our personal lives, and as we live with national and world chaos.
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
More information coming soon!
Worship Leader: Anita Rufus
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Anita Rufus, who has specialized in end-of-life options for over 20 years, will talk about Advance Directives and the importance of having discussions with your family about what you do and do not want.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
We value knowledge highly in our tradition, embracing varieties of knowledge about things: thinking and ideas and theories. But we often devalue knowledge grounded in doing, making, and crafting. How might we benefit from the deep knowledge of makers and crafters and tradespeople as we imagine the beloved community?
Worship Leader: Lisa Middleton
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Lisa Middleton is a member of the Palm Springs City Council. In 2017, she became the first transgender person elected to a political office in California, in 2021 she became only the third transgender person in US History to be the Mayor of an American city. Lisa will speak not only of her lived experience but of the challenges facing transgender people today as so many seek to politicalize transgender identity.
Worship Leader: Megan Beaman-Jacinto
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Even today, where the average person works 12+ jobs in a lifetime, many companies continue to enjoy the committed and experienced labor of long term employees. These humans dedicate nearly their entire working lives to companies, contributing a wealth of dedicated expertise, wisdom, and skills over decades. However, too often, the employment relationships end too abruptly in employees’ later years, and workers are able to fight back.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
How do we choose to talk to each other? How can we connect more deeply in conversation and connection? How can we learn to listen to one another? Join us as we explore conversation in times of peace and in times of stress.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
Our Unitarian Universalist Association is engaged in a deep conversation about the values that unite us. This year, along with UUs all over the country, we will be exploring those values and the way they are shared in our denomination’s statements of principle. Join us today as we introduce our exploration of the values that bring us together as a community.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
At this time of the High Holy Days for our Jewish kin and neighbors we explore again the thinking of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and her book On Repentance and Repair which has been chosen as the UUA’s Common Read for this church year.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
How are our lives woven together? How do we see the world differently when we understand we are part of the web? The first of our monthly exploration of values asks us to look at our Interdependence.
Worship Leader: Rev. Jackie Conley
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
We are all victims of the culture of violence in America. Jackie Conley, a United Methodist Minister and Christian educator, who lost a son to complications from a gunshot wound, will highlight the history and debunk some myths about guns in America. She will share her son Brandon’s story and her personal experience as a survivor of gun violence. She will reflect on the “Gun Culture” we all live in today and how it has evolved. She hopes to move us from resignation or despair to hope, sharing the way to become Peacemakers.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Denise Janssen-Eager
At the beginning of our church year, as we regather as a community, join us as we honor the blessings of water and the streams of life and experience we all bring from our summer explorations.
Worship Leader: Rabbi Jules King
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Today, we are witnessing the demonization, and destruction of many in our nation, and now more than ever we can learn from the story of Noah and the Ark that we are and we can be our brother and sister's keeper.
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell, Michael Allen and Daljit Singh
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
What values do we carry with us from those who came before? What dreams? What responsibilities? What can we learn about ourselves by hearing the voices of our ancestors?
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