Online Worship Gratitude Focus: Recognition of Veteran’s Day Who decides how the past is remembered? There is a larger truth that includes more perspectives than ours, alone. If we rely on one author for the history of our family or our nation, we may fail to find a more authentic truth.
In-Person Arrival Time: 10:15–10:30am Online Start time: 10:30am Come together on the UUCD grounds for an outdoor Celebration of Remembrance and worship enjoying the beauty of the brilliant pistache trees.* We’ll create an altar. Bring a memento or photo to represent someone from your life who has died, and you wish to honor. Our … Continue reading IN-PERSON & ONLINE WORSHIP: Celebration of Remembrance
Online Worship Link Robin Datel The UN’s COP26 (26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) will run Nov. 1 to 12. Many experts feel it to be a pivotal moment in our fight against climate change. To mark that reality, choose a costume appropriate to the occasion! Once the … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: Dressing Up as Climate Change for Halloween
This annual service honors those in our congregation who have died in the past year. We dedicate their names in our Memorial Grove and celebrate the ways they were connected to our community. We will gather on the Patio for this service. To join us remotely, please use this link.
Online Worship Link Rev. Casey Dunsworth In the Christian tradition, one of the most-quoted passages of scripture is Jesus’ command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Taking a look around at our present world, it can be difficult to ascertain just how and by whom this command is being interpreted. As we cultivate relationships with … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: Loving Our Neighbors
Online Worship Link When life gives us unexpected and unwelcome surprises relationships support us, give us strength and inspiration. This is service comes from recent personal experience, but even more so from the founding principles of adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy and the studies of trauma stewardship. Consider what relationships serve as your foundation for … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: Tips for Survival: Relationship is Everything
Special Worship Link For THIS SERVICE ONLY Bruce Pollack-Johnson, UU Church of the Restoration, Philadelphia The 8th Principle came from a feeling that we need something to renew our commitment to racial justice work, to hold ourselves accountable, and to fulfill the potential of our existing principles. The 8th principle was developed and written by … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: Why an 8th Principle?
Rev. Morgan McLean; Kate Logvy, Religious Exploration Coordinator; Lu Higgs, Acting Music Director; Worship Team In-person participants will walk through stations, masked and distanced. You may come anytime between 10:30-11:30am. Juuliebells and Sparks Choir will offer special music. Bring your pets, or their representation, to receive a blessing. There will be an altar of remembrance and … Continue reading IN-PERSON & ONLINE WORSHIP: First Sunday Celebration: Animal Blessing
Online Worship Link For the past 18 months, Rev. McLean has been involved in an international project reimagining international UU relationships. The work of unlearning our American expectations and learning anew to center emerging voices has invited a new depth of connection and mutuality.
Online Worship Link (Sukkot Sept. 20-27) Kyria Boundy-Mills, Liz Garman, Louise Conrad Mollie Napier, Worship Associate; Emily Burstein, Worship Support Why are you a part of the UU Church of Davis (UUCD)? You may be one of many who say that you come to be among like-minded people. Are we really like-minded? Let’s find out! … Continue reading ONLINE WORSHIP: Creating What’s Possible
