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“The Importance of Living an Authentic Life”

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

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.

Sunday Worship: We are all in the same boat… Torah has lots to say…

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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.

Sunday Worship: They Always With Us: Stories of Our Ancestors

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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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Sunday Worship: Living as Beings of Love – Our Ultimate Calling

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Worship Leader: Lauren Nile
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum. 

As human beings, we are called to live lives of self-awareness, wisdom, and compassion - lives of love. In her talk, Lauren will share her thoughts about the nature of a path to that end - specific behavioral steps that help us evolve toward our call to our higher selves.

Sunday Worship: Long Live the Legion! or How Our Differences Make Us Stronger

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank. It's been more than 80 years since Superman appeared in his first comic book. Are super-heroes just wish fulfillment for adolescents or might they have something to say to us in our quest for diversity and justice?

“Crafting Shared Ministry: The Installation of Rev. Ian W. Riddell as UUCOD’s Settled Minister”

Sanctuary 72425 Via Vail, Rancho Mirage, CA, United States

An Installation Service is an opportunity for a congregation and its settled minister to formally acknowledge and celebrate the new beginning in their shared ministry and to ponder together a shared vision of ministry. The service involves a ritual of installation, a wonderful sermon from a colleague and mentor of Rev. Ian’s, words and music from our congregation and from some of the ministers in our region, and even the exchange of some gifts in honor of the new shared ministry. And it's a chance for a party, too! Join us for this wonderful service and a fabulous reception afterwards.

Sunday Worship: Setting a Welcoming Table

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Denise Janssen Eager. As we prepare ourselves for gathering around a table in thanks, what is in our minds and hearts. Who do we carry with us as we feast and offer gratitude?

Sunday Worship: Rest as Resistance

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck

Oliver Burkeman wrote, “The core challenge of managing our limited time isn’t about how to get everything done—that’s never going to happen—but how to decide most wisely what not to do, and how to feel at peace about not doing it.” Join us as we explore the choice to find rest and restoration in the face of the world’s demands and the call of the coming season.

Sunday Worship: The Epic of Love

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

From ancient days we humans have known that love is crucial for our survival. And so we have told stories and explored patterns to figure out how love’s many faces can tell us who we are. Join us as we those ancient and modern faces.

Sunday Worship: The Light of Love

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Denise Janssen Eager
The nights are getting longer, and we light lights to see each other and to remind ourselves of joy and hope. Today we’ll explore how Hanukkah and the Solstice and other festivals of light help us see our collective humanity and possibility.

A Time for Reflection and Quiet – in Person

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Join Rev. Ian for a time of quiet reflection amidst the bustle of the holidays. We'll light our chalice and share a reading and a small song and enjoy resting in […]