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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Join us as we celebrate the volunteers that help our community grow and thrive. We’ll also welcome new members to the congregation and celebrate the arrival of new life!

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?

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.

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.

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

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, honoring those people who have given their lives in the service of their country. How are we honoring their legacy? How are we taking care of those who still serve or have retired?

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: 
Steven Toporoff
We are faced with responding to the growing forces of fascism in our country and in our world. How can we, as people of a progressive faith, protect our civil society and our neighbors and kin. How does our faith tradition call us to be in the world and how does it offer us grounding for resistance and thriving?

Worship Leader: Rev. Molly Housh Gordon, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, Missouri
Worship Coordinator: Rev. Ian W. Riddell

We are all tangled up together in a great web of life that is woven with beauty and hardship, love and loss, thriving and struggle. How do we tend well to the weaving so that all of us are held in care? Join us as we share in the Sunday service from the 2024 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly shared with Unitarian Universalists around the country and around the world. We will watch the service at our normal time of 10:00am in the Sanctuary. If you wish to watch from home, we will share the link for the service closer to the date. Note that this service will be longer than our usual 60 minutes.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Bryna Blum

Researcher Brené Brown explores practices for grappling with failure and struggle in our lives. How does her sociological and psychological insight parallel our commitments to spiritual growth and loving relationships?

Guest Speaker Rev. Frank Dunn
Service Leader: 
Steven Toporoff
This week, we welcome the Rev. Frank Dunn. He and his husband, Joseph Casazza, are neighbors, living in Cathedral City. Rev. Dunn will focus on a few of the many lessons he has learned over his half-century career as an Episcopal priest, and from his involvement in all aspects of congregational life. Says Rev. Dunn: “I couldn’t possibly unpack more than a slice or two of what I’ve learned, but there’s a handful of things I’ve learned that might be useful to others in assessing what they have gleaned from the practice of Christianity. No one enters our lives without having something to teach us.

Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:  Walter Gendell

Some of the super-heroes we see on the big and small screen recently have been around for a long time—Superman turned 85 this year! Their fictional lives and experiences might offer us opportunities to reflect on our own growth and development.