April 5 – Rising Together: An Easter of Renewal and our Flower Ceremony

Come celebrate resurrection not as a single moment, but as a living, shared practice of renewal. Through the beloved Unitarian Universalist Flower Ceremony, we bring our individual stories—our grief, our joy, our becoming—and create something beautiful together. Come experience a service of hope, transformation, and the gentle reminder that even after the longest winters, life returns in color, diversity, and community. Pleae bring a flower or foliage to worship service, and if you can, a starter plant for the Religious Education Flower Garden!

April 12 – Roll Down Justice: Rev. Dr. Gaye Morris

The prophet Amos writes, “Let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Dr. Martin Luther King quoted him when he urged action on civil rights. Although millennia apart, both seemingly wrote in frustration as their people suffered. Today Rev. Gaye asks, how do we meet hatred and oppression with love and justice? Two heroes who fought Nazism, Unitarian minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha, are our models of resistance in today’s service.

April 19 – To Get to the Other Side by Rev. Anna Tulou

I want to instill in my children, and what’s more, I want to instill in myself, the sense of vocation as endeavoring to get to the other side of impossible, where “impossible” simply falls away. All the challenges, all the obstacles – they are not blocking the path. They are the path…

April 26 – Beauty in the Heart of the Beholder by Rev. Brigitte Bechtold

It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But isn’t the beholder influenced by what is culturally acceptable and in vogue, by ideas about perfection? What if we look at the beauty in things that are so-called “imperfect”? What if we look into our hearts and allow for the beauty that is in the heart of the beholder? Then what we love is what is beautiful, and the more we love, the more beauty we see around us and the more we can embrace beautiful possibilities.

May 3 – What would happen if ….

Abolition begins with a question. What if the systems we have inherited—systems of punishment, incarceration, and exclusion—are not the only way? In this reflection, we explore how curiosity can become a spiritual practice: the courage to ask how harm might be addressed through healing rather than punishment, how safety might grow through connection rather than control, how community grows in accountable relationship. Rooted in Unitarian Universalist values of transformation and justice, this sermon invites us to approach abolition not simply as a political idea, but as a faithful curiosity about what more humane possibilities might be waiting for us to imagine together.