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Sunday Worship: The Tao of Community

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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

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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.

Sunday Worship: Used Up and Thrown Out: The (Mis)Use of People Over Profit in Manual Labor

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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.

Sunday Worship: Conversation as a Tool of Beloved Community

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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.

Sunday Worship: Talking About What Unites Us

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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.

Sunday Worship: Atonement and Forgiveness

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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.

Sunday Worship: Warp and Weft: Woven into Life (Interdependence)

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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.

Sunday Worship: “We Are All Called to be Peacemakers”

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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.

Sunday Worship: “Ingathering: A Mingling of the Waters”

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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.