August 30 – Holy Troublemakers

What if some of the most faithful people in the Bible were also the ones who refused to behave? This morning we’ll meet women who defied expectations, challenged authority, broke the rules, claimed their own power, and sometimes changed the rules themselves. Their stories invite us to wonder whether troublemaking can sometimes be an act of faith—and whether, when the world is unjust, being a little unruly might be exactly what love requires.

September 6 – Labor Day Reflection

This morning we will a have a Bridging ceremony for our RE classes. This is a celebration of moving to a new class, a celebration of growth and change. As our young folks grow older, let us explore the facet of labor and the working life that will face them in the not so distant future.

September 13 – Water Communion

Our week of Ingathering begines with our annual water communion which provides us time to work with the power of Water. We will contemplate waters of transformation, waters of grief, waters of renewal, and waters of joy. In this service, the message is all about our differences, and how they make us more beautiful …. the water symbolizes our commonality – all of us are more water than anything else.

September 20 – What We Make Together Is Just the Beginning

Every beginning asks us to remember something we sometimes forget: we were never meant to do this alone. As we gather for Ingathering, we will explore the web of relationships that sustains us—our connections to one another, to the more-than-human world, and to the Earth that makes our lives possible. With the returning music of Hiroya Tsukamoto and an interactive art project woven into our worship, we’ll experience interdependence not simply as an idea, but as something we create together.

September 27 – No One Stands Between Us

What if the person who was left out of the Bible still has something important to teach us about faith? Thecla was an early Christian woman whose story tells of a woman who refused the life prescribed for her, claimed her own spiritual calling, and—when no religious authority was available to baptize her—baptized herself. Her story invites us to ask what it means to trust our own experience of the sacred, to claim spiritual authority for ourselves, and to live into a Unitarian Universalism where no priest, minister, creed, or institution stands between us and the truth we are seeking.