Worship Leader: Rabbi Mark Borovitz Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Rabbi Mark will discuss the exodus of Egypt historically and in our time.
The Environmental Film Festival has been canceled for March. It will resume in April for our final film to celebrate Earth Day.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
What does welcome feel like? What does it look like? How can we welcome newness and possibility and hope into our lives and into our congregation. Join us as we explore welcome and celebrate the new members joining our community.
Worship Leader: Rabbi Jules King
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Why do they hate us? Why is it always the Jews? Is there anything we can do? How to identify it and name it.
Worship Leader: Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
Worship Associate: Joni Padduck
s we begin to consider a deeper, longer commitment with our minister Rev. Ian Riddell, our guest speaker Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh from the UUA Pacific Western Region staff leads us in reflecting on how we are always forming, and re-forming, ourselves and our communities. In these tumultuous times we are called to live differently than our consumerist, hyper-individualist society may have taught us. Together we are called to embrace a kind of spiritual salvage work: saving one another, our planet, and ourselves; living into a deep interdependence and joyful aliveness. Calling a minister at a time like this has a profound meaning for UUCOD, a congregation that Sarah has partnered with on its own healing journey of the past seven years. Let us celebrate all that we are and all that we are becoming, together.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
For so many of us, the non-human animals in our lives bring companionship, love, trust, and healing.
Join us in the Sanctuary to watch Evelyn Kain's Memorial Service via Zoom.
Join us as we view a portion of the Virtual 21st Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
We will view CommUNITY, a package of eight short films with the intention of inspiring solutions to restore the earth and human communities. The films visit diverse communities and share their solutions to the environmental challenges that they face.
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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?
Worship Leader: Rev. Dr. Don Stouder
Worship Associate: Bob Rancourt
oin Rev. Don as he journeys back in time to explore the Universalist and liberatory message of early Christian mystics, who bucked the church doctrine of their day to preach an inclusive message of love and justice. They wrote of an early path that we have come to call Creation Spirituality, and Rev. Don will explore that path and how it connects to our historic and contemporary vision of Universalism.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
Sometimes when we’re working hard to change the way things are, we feel like we’re alone. We feel like making mistakes will be devastating. But we can choose to look around and notice that we are actually not alone, that others are there with us, others have walked our path before us and we can learn from their mistakes and the miracles and connections that made their journey possible. Join us as we explore this in our own lives and the life of our congregation as we kick off our reading of Mistakes and Miracles.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Assistant: Tess Phillips
Our community thrives because we practice generosity. We bring our hearts and minds and hands to the work of nurturing our community and sharing our vision. Join us as we reflect on generosity and ponder how our own hearts and spirits grow as we give.
Worship Leaders: Laura and Annie Meeks
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
We are all influenced by our parents and mentors as we grow up. They paint a picture of the world for us, and we go out into that world as young minds. All of us then find there are many worlds, many cultures, and many beliefs on how the world works. What happens when those worlds clash?
I followed the path I was told would work for me, a white male in America. At 31 I found out that I was much different and was faced with a choice. I could stay on my path and be unhappy with who I was or change my gender presentation with hopes of finding happiness. What did we choose and how did it work?
My wife of 36 years and I will share part of our story of challenge, love, and acceptance as together we make a Major Transformation.
Join the Social Justice Committee for UUCOD’s Environmental Film Fest. This five film series culminates in April for Earth Day. These films share a special emphasis on the climate changes happening in our Coachella Valley and beyond.