Worship Leader: roddy bell-shelton biggs
Worship Associate: Sarita Gonzales

Inspired by the Traditional Spiritual Song, Why Not Every Man? (Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel), join us as Ministerial Aspirant with the Unitarian Universalist speaker roddy biggs reflects on the many ways in which some of our Unitarian Universalist practices can be harmful to the creation and full realization of the beloved community. What can we do as Unitarian Universalists in the 21st century do differently to ensure that everyone, those who are Queer, BIPOC, living with mental and emotional health challenges, of social and economic divides, not only feel but know that they are seen, are heard, are valid and are welcome/ celebrated in our Unitarian Universalist faith and society at large?

Are we our bodies or do we inhabit them? And what difference might our answer to that make? As we struggle against those who demand control of other people's bodies, how might our theology and understanding of all of our bodies help us respond?

Just what is a Religious Naturalist and why does it matter? Join us as we explore what it means to understand the whole of the universe, including us, as holy.

Since Rev Don preached several times about the “Widening the Circle” report in the summer of 2020, there has been much talk in UU circles of the need for new, liberating theologies. In this sermon, Rev Don calls us back to our Universalist roots, and how, on this Sunday honoring both Father’s Day and Juneteenth, we can celebrate and reclaim the freedom, reason, tolerance, and love that our Universalist faith represents.