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November 17, 2024: Crafting an Inclusive Spirit and Welcoming Divergence
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Denise Janssen Eager
Our theme for November is “Building Accessible and Inclusive Communities.” How can we expand our understanding of accessibility and inclusion and craft communities that are open and welcoming to the rich and diverse ways that our human brains work and engage in the world?
November 10, 2024: So ... Now What? Facing the Future Together
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
Election Day has passed and we are all starting to figure out how to move forward into new realities together. How will we care for ourselves? How will we care for our neighbors? How will we heal wounds and continue our work of crafting the beloved community together?
November 3, 2024: Where Will Our Hope Come From?
Worship Leader: Rabbi Mark Borovitz
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
In times when anger/negativity is in such abundance, hope is the
spiritual response that will save us all from the disaster of despair.
Looking at faith traditions to live into the hope that living our faith
gives us, finding more similarities than differences.
October 27, 2024: Envisioning a Democratic Future
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
We UUs cherish democracy. It grows out of our deepest values of inclusion, generosity, and interdependence. This morning, as we are getting ready for a momentous election, we’ll explore what a spiritual commitment to democracy means and how we can work toward democratic thriving in the reality of our divided culture.
October 13, 2024: Ingathering: Celebrating the Past, Envisioning the Future
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
On October 19, 1959, Unitarians in the Coachella Valley gathered for the first time at the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce office. Since then, this community has grown and thrived, through struggle and wandering in the desert, through ministers coming and going, through dreaming and hard work. And here we are, 65 years later, stronger than ever! Join us on this joyful day as we celebrate our history and our coming back together at the beginning of this church year and as we look together toward the future. And after the service, there will be birthday cake!!!
October 6, 2024: Atonement, Imperfection, and Empathy
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Inspired by the traditions of our Jewish neighbors and kin we ponder together what being committed to right relations—to care and repair and deepening—might look like in our messy, conflicted world.
September 29, 2024: Reviving Climate Possibility: Nurturing Interdependence
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Walter Gendell
This weekend we are joining the Unitarian Universalist Climate Revival—focusing our hearts and minds on the environment and living into new ways to nurture a thriving environment of all of life and building new connections between us as we do this holy work.
September 22, 2024: Awakening Joy
Worship Leader: Swamini Adityananda Saraswati
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
How did the happiest man in the world become so happy? Researchers wanted to find out. What was revealed was stunning… and transferrable to our own lives. Join interfaith leader, Swamini Adityananda Saraswati, for an inspiring morning as she shares secrets from the East, and reveals how they can be easily practiced anywhere: at home, in traffic, or wherever else you may feel inspired.
*Swamini Adityanda Saraswati, a self-identified Hindu Unitarian Universalist, currently serves as the Intern Minister of the First UU Church of San Diego. She also in the Deputy Chair of the Board of UU Ministry for Earth.
September 15, 2024 Circles of Connection - Our Larger Faith
Worship Leader Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate Mel Wilkinson
Our UUA General Assembly this past June agreed to changes to the ways we taught about what we believe and commit to. But GA brought conversations and discussions beyond the new values statements. Join us as we explore what’s going on in our wider faith tradition.
June 25, 2023 GA Assembly Worship Service
Ever Willing: Becoming the People Our World Needs
The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.
Link to the UUA website to view the recorded service.
July 2, 2023: We The People
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Assistant: Joni Padduck
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, we take a look at the state of our democracy and wonder together how to stay true to our values while resisting hatred, fear, and prejudice.
*Note: Since there was no sound on the recording we are providing the text of the sermon in this document.