Please come to our services in person from June 30 -- no more Zoom till Fall. (Then you can again click here for Zoom of our weekly services at 10 am).
In keeping with April’s focus on our 7th principle Respect for Earth, CVUUS Sangha members offered a Zen Buddhist perspective. Order of Service – How to Be a Climate Activist without Having Your Heart Broken: A Buddhist Perspective Prelude: Nature Sounds and Bells – Kate Gridley Welcome and Announcements – Becky Strum Call to Worship: … Continue reading Service by the CVUUS Sangha
Rev. Barnaby create an online-only service featuring lots of CVUUS kids and families, in place of the usual kids-led service. Order of Service Prelude: Chuck Miller Come Wash Your Hands: The Singhs Welcome & Pathways: Poppy Rees, Director of Religious Exploration Call to Worship: Poppy Rees Chalice Lighting: Wren Colwell Time for All Ages: Milo … Continue reading All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Online Choir
Rev. Barnaby explored the Covid-19 pandemic’s challenge to our ongoing UU calling to make the world more just. Order of Service The Sixth Principle: Doubling Down on Justice Prelude – Chuck Miller Welcome – Karl Lindholm Pathways to Healthy Connection – Rev. Barnaby Feder Musical Call to Worship: “Come Wash Your Hands With Me” – … Continue reading Doubling Down on Justice
Led by Karl Lindholm and Martha Fulda. Participants at Home We have about 43 devices watching the service, which probably meant 60-70 people watching. What an exciting response to this first effort! Order of Service The Sixth Principle: The Goal of World Community: Reflections Prelude: Kate Gridley Welcome and Pathways to Connection: Karl Lindholm Call … Continue reading The Goal of World Community: Reflections – Online Only
Global Peace is the foremost dream of our 6th principle. Rev. Barnaby reflected on how much the achievement of the others to any substantial extent depends on centering peacemaking in core UU practice: Readings: Sermon on the Mount, adapted by Rev. Edwin Palmer and Rev. Barnaby Feder: Blessed are they whose health is the joy … Continue reading Making World Peace Contagious
Our stewardship service and spring pledge drive kick-off. Rev. Barnaby’s United As One sermon: Followed right afterward by the CVUUS CommUUion, our Jesus-inspired ritual celebrating all prophets known and unknown with an Earth-centered twist. This unique time of peace, reflection and shared gratitude lasts about 15 minutes. Readings: Hebrews 10:23-25. Scholars believe Hebrews records advice … Continue reading United As One
Our Unitarian forbearer William Ellery Channing famously said that he was a member of “the living family of all souls.” The latter part of that phrase – all souls – is fairly well-known in our UU movement thanks to so many congregations bearing that name. Mara Dowdall returned to our pulpit to instead focus on … Continue reading The One Family
Rev. Barnaby reflected on how Unitarian Universalism’s professed devotion to democracy is not faring well in our thoroughly distracted and neurotic society. How important is defense of this part of our faith? Readings: Excerpts from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s report on its 2019 Democracy Index (www.eiu.com/n/global-democracy-in-retreat/); Excerpt from The Democacy Principle by Rev. Jill Cowie … Continue reading Democracy Stumbles
Those words are associated with Granny Weatherwax, the late British fantasy writer Terry Pratchett’s beguiling witch who relies more on psychology than spells. Though often only a minor character in Pratchett’s stories, Granny Weatherwax tends to make sure right triumphs. Rev. Barnaby examined the connection between witchcraft and the UU affirmation of the right to … Continue reading “I Can’t Be Having That”
Rev. Barnaby reflected on some 30 year-old wisdom about food and freedom.
