Self-Examination versus Self-flagellation
How do we forgive others and ourselves? The High Holy Days of the Jewish Calendar are meant to be a time of self-examination, however, sometimes they can become a time…
Healing Your Religious Past
Most Unitarian Universalists come to the denomination from other religions; often there have been several stops along the path. We can be most fully and completely present in our religious…
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Canaries in a Coal Mine
A canary in a coal mine once served as an early detector of danger from odorless and colorless gases. Are there other dangers for which we need early detection? Theologically…
There’s an App for That
How can we affirm our humanity in an age of technology? Will bricks and mortar churches eventually be replaced by an app on your phone? This morning we will reflect…
The Epidemic of Loneliness (and the Cure of Community)
Medical researchers are naming loneliness as a growing threat to public health. This Sunday we will reflect on how building community in our congregation can help address this crisis. This…
Y-Care (Let’s Talk About Suicide)
Suicide affects us all, but what is it? Why do people sometimes feel the need to take there own life? How do our beliefs about and understandings of suicide affect…
Theology in a Yellow Vest
Some people associate “the church” with wealth, power, privilege and the status quo but this summer our minister encountered Jesus on the Metro in Paris wearing a yellow vest over…
Rev. Chris Buice
When Doing Nothing Accomplishes Something
The theologian Walter Brueggemann speaks of resting as a form of activism. This Sunday we will look at the idea of Sabbath, a day of rest, through the lens of…
There’s a River Flowin’ in My Soul: Water Communion
The headline in the newspaper read, “Unitarians Divided” in the aftermath of the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association this summer in Spokane, Washington. However, our parish minister returns…
Living into a UU Liberation Theology
Liberation Theology is a framework and movement grounded in the social gospels that states that true followers must work toward a just society, bring about social and political change and…