Sacred Disruption: Thunderous Peace-In-Person and Virtual Worship
What if peace isn’t quiet? In this reflection, we explore the tension between silence and truth, and the role disruption plays in creating a more honest, expansive kind of peace.…
Your Silence Will Not Protect You – In-Person and Virtual Worship
The mystics lift up the value of silence. “Nothing is so much like God as stillness,” wrote Meister Eckhart. We all need times of quiet built into our lives. However…
Peacemakers Who Can Pack a Punch – In-Person and Virtual Worship
In Southern culture there is a lot of emphasis on politeness, good manners and being nice. However, being nice is not always the same thing as being good. This Sunday…
When We Sing We Pray Twice – In-Person and Virtual Worship
This Sunday we will explore what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist by singing both classic and contemporary hymns. Saint Augustine said that when we sing we pray twice.…
The Inquisition Exhibition -In-Person and Virtual Worship
In Granada Spain, there is a museum dedicated to the Spanish Inquisition which contains many unsettling exhibits that demonstrate the cruelties human beings are capable of committing in the name…
Choosing Visibility- In-Person and Virtual Worship- Rev. Lóre Stevens
We continue to witness the oppression of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people. This Sunday, join Rev. Lóre Stevens, Minister of Oak Ridge UU Church as we honor the choice of…
Deconstructing Mama’s Day-In-Person and Virtual Worship
For some people the moment of awakening is when they say to themselves, “There is no way I am going to teach my children what I learned in Sunday School.”…
Religious Exploration Sunday: Dreaming Big Together-In-Person and Virtual Worship
Join us for an all-ages service about the big dreams we have for ourselves and for our world. We’ll celebrate Religious Exploration participants and the volunteers who make our programs…
Say Gay, Y’all-In-Person and Virtual Worship
Did you know that having just one affirming adult in their life can decrease a LGBTQ+ youth’s risk of devastating mental health outcomes by up to 40%? What does it…
Has Technology Made Us Stupid? -In-Person and Virtual Worship
We tend to associate science and technology with progress. This Sunday we will consider the possibility that science and technology are serving as an obstacle to our goal of the…