Welcome to a faith of radical love and acceptance, theological exploration, lifelong learning, and social justice. We hope you’ll join us this Sunday morning for our service at 11:00 am. On Sundays we have religious education opportunities for all ages beginning at 9:30 am. If you have time, please stop by the welcome table in our Sanctuary foyer on your first visit. We also hope you’ll join us in the lounge for coffee and fellowship after the service.
This Sunday
Our Story of Justice with the Rev. Bret Lortie
Upcoming Services
- 02/05/12 The Rev. Bret Lortie on An Involving Love
- 02/12/12 The Rev. Bret Lortie on Another Valentine’s Day
This week, January 23 – 28, 2012
By telling a “story of us” you can communicate values that can inspire others to act together by identifying with each other, not only with you. Just as with a story of self, the key choice points in the life of a community – its founding, crises it has faced, or other events that everyone remembers – are moments that express the values shared. Consider stories that members of your congregation or group have shared, especially those that held similar meaning for all of you. The key is to focus on telling a specific story about specific people at a specific time that can remind everyone – or call to everyone’s attention – values that you share. Telling a good story of us requires the courage of empathy – to consider the experience of others deeply enough to take a chance on articulating that experience.
Thirty Days of Love
Beginning Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and culminating with Valentine’s Day, Thirty Days of Love is a collective visioning process about making sense of the present moment and what we are called to do. We aim to accomplish this through self-reflection, active listening, sharing personal and community stories, and celebrating our lives and our heroes for their courageous love.
Thirty Days of Love offers daily, direct actions for love, and the calendar is a template to guide you through a meaningful thirty days. Your participation is envisioned as a process, not an event.
While there is great power in collective action, the beauty of Standing on the Side of Love is its “open source” spirit, so bring your own ideas, actions, and traditions with you for this journey.
We are a Welcoming Congregation. The Welcoming Congregation Program is a completely volunteer program for congregations that see a need to become more inclusive towards bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, queer, and questioning people and their families. It consists of a series of workshops developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association. The goal of the workshops is to reduce prejudice by increasing understanding and acceptance among people of different sexual orientations. Our congregation became a certified Welcoming Congregation in 2002.
Our Covenant
Love is the doctrine of this church,
The quest of truth is its sacrament,
And service is its prayer.
To dwell together in peace,
To seek knowledge in freedom,
To serve humanity in fellowship,
To the end that all souls
Shall grow into harmony with the Divine -
Thus do we covenant with each other.
