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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: “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: 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: Options for the End of Life

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Guest Speaker: Nikko Beltran
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Compassion & Choices fights for the rights of people at the end of their life and pushes back against those who seek to strip those rights away. There's much to learn.

Sunday Worship: The Story of Love

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

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Ginger Hemingway

Join us on this winter morning as we gather around our common flame and share stories and songs of the season.

This service is not streamed.

Sunday Worship: The Gift of Love: Christmas Eve Vespers

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

On this dark night, the Christmas story reminds us that love comes to us as a gift, sometimes from unexpected places. Join us as we celebrate the gift of love in story, song, and silence.

This service is streamed.

Sunday Worship: “Watch us Grow! Heart, Treasure, and Spirit”

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

Worship Leader: Rev Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Julia Alberg-Burbank
We are told that “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Join us as we kick off our drive to grow our community in resources, depth, spirit, and impact.

Sunday Worship: “Give and Take: Yarn and Relationship”

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

Worship Leader: Rev Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Ginger Hemingway
Every yarn is different. Cotton, wool, acrylic, silk all feel different as you knit or weave or crochet and each creates a different fabric with unique qualities. Our relationships, too, ask us to be attentive and intentional in unique ways with each individual and situation. Join us as we explore the fabric of relationship.

Sunday Worship: “Equity-The Key Ingredient of Morality, Justice, Compassion and Peace”

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Worship Leader: Lauren N. Nile
Worship Associate:  Bryna Blum
The concept of equity is as crucial today to our American society, to the world, and to our future, as it ever has been. But what is equity? Why is equity so critical to both our future as a nation, and as a species? What risks does continued inequity in economics, education and other important areas pose to our future? What are the unimaginable results of a world in which equity is valued and practiced? What are we, as moral, ethical people, called to do in humanity’s maturation toward greater global equity?

Sunday Worship: “A Rebirth of Possibility: Earth Day and the Transformation of Hope”

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Denise Janssen Eager

The world around us, the world we are an integral part of, is changing in drastic and dangerous ways. Where can we find hope? Where can we build hope? Might science and science fiction show us a way? Might there be a spiritual path to hope?

Sunday Worship: “Blossoming Into Life: Flower Communion”

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

The world offers us each beauty and possibility if we just look. Join us as we celebrate the beautiful diversity of the world in a return of our Flower Communion. Bring some flowers to share. Our annual congregational meeting follows this week’s service.

Sunday Worship: “Values and Vision”

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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: 
Claudia Simmons
All year we have been exploring the values laid out in proposed new language crafted to share what we UUs hold in common as we do the work of crafting the beloved community together. Join us as Rev. Ian sums up or year of exploration and as we look forward to doing our own work of visioning for this beloved community in the year to come.