What if the very risks we face in the world today that require us to be more resilient thrive on that very resilience? Author, activist, and journalist Soraya Chemaly challenges us to rethink some of our beliefs about resilience in her thought-provoking book The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma. … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Resilience?
This worship service draws insight, hope, and inspiration from our Unitarian, Universalist, and UU histories with select stories of how ordinary people have shown up for justice in very different ways and contexts. To borrow a phrase from the Biblical book of Hebrews, “ we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,….”to guide … Continue reading Rooted in Solidarity: UU Stories of Resistance and Resilience
We might be surprised by the extent the definition of ‘human’ has changed over the centuries. We also might be surprised by how many ancient ideas remain embedded in our contemporary self-understanding of human nature. Join us on Sunday, February 1 for a quick tour of the many aspects of human identity that compose our … Continue reading Humour Me
Attending to the Inner Teacher: For this service, we’ll spend some time thinking about what Parker Palmer and others have called our Inner Teacher. Where does it come from? How do we come to pay attention to it and, ultimately, to trust its guidance? Once we do, how do we encourage its regular appearance in … Continue reading Attending to the Inner Teacher
“We come carried by ancestors who refused the silence of despair and dared to sing a new song. Their courage whispers through us still. Today, we resist by showing up—together. We resist by keeping faith with what is not yet. Our gathering is itself an act of sacred dissent.” (Rev. Michelle Collins) Come join us … Continue reading Voices in Resistance
What does it mean for us to be people of imagination, hope, and possibility during uncertain and difficult times? Let us embrace and hold both reality and possibility together. During this Sunday’s worship service, we will participate in our annual fire communion ceremony, a practice of letting go and setting new intention as we begin … Continue reading Embracing Possibility: Annual Fire Communion Ceremony
The Spiritual Practice of Having Fun. The hard work of our personal Spiritual Practices is serious stuff until it isn’t. And when it isn’t serious what does it look like? And if it’s always serious, what fun is that? Spiritual practices are about enhancing our everyday lives so that we may flourish, and it is … Continue reading The Spiritual Practice of Having Fun
Due to a technical glitch the first part of the service was not recorded. Tree of Life and Prairie Circle UU Congregations’ annual holiday musical celebration is Sunday, December 21 at 10:30am. This year’s concert features both secular and sacred music with vocal and bell choirs, woodwinds ensemble, and guest musicians. All are welcome to … Continue reading Annual Holiday Concert: Winter Peace and Holiday Joy
Where do we find hope in these times of brokenness, uncertainty, and darkness? What does it look like…how do we nourish it? How do we turn our sparks of hope into powerful beacons of light? Children are invited to begin with their families in the service and then go to WonderLab activities after the story … Continue reading All the Light of Hope
Believe it or not, Christmas Day did not become a federal holiday in the United States until 1870. Prior to then, the celebration of Christmas was discouraged. This Sunday we will revisit the role that early Unitarians and Universalists had in shaping the history of the Christmas holiday in America. An exploration of UU history, … Continue reading Inventing Christmas: How Unitarian Universalists Shaped the American Holiday
