Spiritual Events

Worship Leaders: Bryna Blum, Fran Hoag, Diana Leslie, Steven Toporoff, Mel Wilkinson

Would you like the opportunity to get to know more people in our congregation and spend time exploring some interesting spiritual questions? Learn more about Chalice Circles, part of UUA’s small group ministry, that invites participants to reflect and share their life experiences on various topics. This Sunday five chalice circle members will simulate a Chalice Circle with congregation participation. Our topic will be “What Are Your Feelings About Joy These Days?” Do join us.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank

Building the beloved community, living lives of connection, love and justice—these are not tasks on our to-do lists but ongoing, lifelong commitments. How do we care for ourselves and our communities to ensure that our hearts and spirits and minds and bodies are healthy and thrive for the long haul?

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
So often we concentrate on the evils of the past in ways that block us from seeing present reality and future possibility. Join us as we reflect on Indigenous Peoples Day and seek to hear new voices.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian
Worship Associate:
We live in one of the driest parts of the country, but life thrives all around us. Rev. Ian shares a more-personal reflection on the ways we learn to live in new climates and learn to see life in new ways.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
Our trans neighbors and kin are facing bolder and crueler attacks on their lives and health. Join us today as we mourn for those whose lives have been cut short by hatred and as we reaffirm our commitment to celebrating and partnering with our trans kin who are resisting and thriving.

Worship Leader: Rev. Tania Márquez
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Rev. Tania will present a service about embodiment, exploring what it means to be an embodied awareness, to live in a body that feels and experiences the world in ways we are not always aware of or that we cannot know.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
UUCOD Choir: Vanessa Ament, Director
The festival of Hanukkah is centered around a miracle, the burning of a lamp for eight days when only one day of oil was available. Can we be reminded to find miracles in all around us? To feel awe and curiosity each and every day?

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
UUCOD Choir, Vanessa Ament, Director

Join us for our annual celebration of light and hope, coming together to find comfort and possibility in the quiet and in the joyful music.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Lance Phillips
We talk a lot about right relations these days. We even have a policy! But what does living in right relation with our neighbors and kin look like on a day-to-day basis? What does it feel like? How can we live more deeply into the beloved community together?