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 take to earn the title of ‘ally’ when the stakes are so desperately high? What does it mean to be an affirming person of faith […]
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 possible and reflect on ways of being in community together at TVUUC that help us nurture beloved community, grow in spirit, and build skills for […]
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.” For Mother’s Day we will honor this epiphany as we contemplate insights from The Deconstructing Mamas podcast hosted by Liz Enn Peters and Esther Joy Goetz. (You […]
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 how to express oneself and the risk to be known. Lóre is swapping pulpits with Chris Buice, who will be preaching in Oak Ridge. You […]
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 of religion. How do we reclaim religion for kindness, compassion and love?, You can watch our worship service streamed at 11 am on our Facebook […]
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. Together we can sing ourselves into an experience of the ineffable. You can watch our worship service streamed at 11 am on our Facebook page https://tinyurl.com/yfx9pnx6, […]