What are the life lessons, and lessons for our spirit and our faith, that we can learn from the waters that surround us? Join Chaplain Dave and our Tree of Life congregation as we explore and celebrate our connection to one another, and to the wider web of life; our one world, and one interconnected … Continue reading In Praise of What Connects Us: Our Annual Water Communion Service
On September 5, 1882 about 10,000 workers took unpaid leave to march in a labor union parade in protest of unfair and unsafe working conditions. This action, one of many within the 19th century labor movement, spread to other cities and by 1894 the U.S. Congress and President Grover Cleveland passed legislation to declare Labor … Continue reading Labor and Delivery
To finish that novel, or not finish that novel? Readers well know that sometimes the novel isn’t worth finishing. Such guilt we feel. Sheepish are we at not wanting to continue reading the author’s hard work. Excuses are proffered. Sorry. Bye. Next? Join Alan Shear on Sunday, September 13 as we explore together the ethics … Continue reading The Poetry of Endings
Holding the Center: Love, Boundaries, and the Art of Mutual Movement: In a world that often demands we dig in or choose sides, holding a balanced center takes a quiet kind of courage. Joining us again from Wisdom Grove, Sarah Woodard draws from the sanctuary of Nature, everyday human experience, and the metaphysical framework of … Continue reading Holding the Center: Love, Boundaries, and the Art of Mutual Movement
This Sunday we will celebrate the many new beginnings in our lives. We will celebrate the start of the new school year, whether we are starting school for the first time, entering a new grade, starting kindergarten, graduate school, or a new professional development program, we want to celebrate with you! We will also acknowledge … Continue reading New Paths. New Blessings. New Beginnings.
Each of us have places that we like to call home or have made into a home. What do our experiences of home-making teach us about creating a spiritual home and church home? Part of the creative challenge of a church home is that we create a church home for us, and not only for … Continue reading My Home, Our Home, Your Home
Come join us in celebration – bring family and friends! Once again, the Wailin’ Mahalias will be with us, bringing songs to lift our hearts and raise our voices. Through music and readings, we’ll celebrate the gifts of our shared humanity, taking time for wonder, joy, and a deepening of community that strengthens us. For … Continue reading Celebrating Life, Celebrating Our Shared Humanity
We are living in an era where it takes courage to maintain our values and beliefs. True courage isn’t always found in the dramatic events engaged in with an audience watching. True courage is often revealed in the quieter choices and decisions we make. Choices that involve trusting in a higher source, the people whom … Continue reading True Courage
Joint service with Prairie Circle UUC – Guest Speaker Natasha Walker This Sunday we will gather with our sibling congregation, Prairie Circle UUC, at their church home in the Byron Colby Barn located at 1561 Jones Point Grayslake, IL 60030, 10:00am. What happens when 30+ congregations speak with one moral voice? We are delighted to … Continue reading A New Era of Action In Illinois
“I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world and change some things.” I reflect on this statement from Robert Fulghum, challenging us all to resist futility thinking—the thought that because we can’t do … Continue reading Reflecting Light
