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Sunday Worship: Curiouser and Curiouser: Questions Newcomers Ask of Us

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
What do Unitarian Universalists believe? Why do you do things this way? What does it mean when you say that? Newcomers have lots of questions for us as they get to know our UU ways of being and thinking. Today, we’ll explore some of their questions. We might even answer a few!

Sunday Worship: The Interdependent Web: Earth Day and Hope

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Join us as we celebrate the beauty and life-giving wonder of our planetary home. How do we respond to the environmental crises around us? How do we find ways for us and all of life to thrive on our vast but tiny home?

Sunday Worship: Peace in the Middle

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rod Belshee Worship Associate: Robert Rancourt
Why do we sometimes seem to skate merrily along in life and at other times bristle up? What is our innate self and what is just a response to outside events? Are we immutable? The Wheel of Dependent Origination offers some insight

Sunday Worship: Care For Our Common Home

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leaders : Rev. Dr. Don Stouder
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
"Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet." Did you know that Pope Francis wrote each of us a personal letter? In this sermon, Rev. Don will talk about the historical and unprecedented calls from mainstream religion to save our planet home. He will use the Pope's encyclical letter on climate change to discuss this trend as well as the intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet.

Sunday Worship: Principles and Promises: Living into our Values

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Our General Assembly in June will be deciding if the UUA begins the process of adopting new ways of expressing what is at the core of our tradition, shifting from principles to shared values. Join us as we explore what the changes might mean for us and how we understand ourselves.

Sunday Worship: Compassionately Navigating Shame

Hybrid: Online and In-Person 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

Worship Leader: Ian Challis
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
Shame is a challenging and gripping emotion that can hinder our spiritual growth and happiness. In this talk we’ll explore how to cultivate self-compassion and skillfully loosen the hold of shame with mindfulness and wisdom.

Sunday Worship: A Kinder, Gentler Future: Science Fiction and Possibility

Sancturary and Livestream on our Website 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum

Science fiction is not all space ships and alien empires. Join us as Rev. Ian explores the way literature might help us reflect on our deepest hopes and brightest paths forward.

Sunday Worship: Justice, Kindness and Humility

Sancturary and Livestream on our Website 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA

Worship Leaders : Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank

The Hebrew prophet, Micah, when asked what worship Yahweh required of his people responded with these three calls to relationship and service. What might our anxious and challenging times require of us?

Sunday Worship: The Tao of Community

Sancturary and Livestream on our Website 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff

How might the ancient text of the Tao Te Ching help us live more deeply into community and connection with the wider world, our community, and our deepest selves?

Sunday Worship: The Art of Joy

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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?

Sunday Worship: General Assembly

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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.

Sunday Worship: We The People

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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.

Sunday Worship: Gratitude: Lessons from a Cracked Head

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Worship Leader: Jack Fitzsimmons
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum

Jack's post-surgical journey and his emerging practice of gratitude.

Sunday Worship: When Church Disappoints

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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.

Sunday Worship: A Peculiar Notion: Gender, Masculinity, and Ted Lasso

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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?

Sunday Worship: You Don’t Have to be an Addict…

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Worship Leader: Harriet Rossetto
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum

Meeting the emotional, existential and spiritual challenges of the human condition.

Sunday Worship: Spirituality in the Face of Uncertainty

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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!

Sunday Worship: The Five Wishes

Sancturary and Livestream on our Website 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA

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.

Sunday Worship: Crafting Time, Crafting Worth

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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?

“The Importance of Living an Authentic Life”

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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.