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
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
A joint worship service of Tree of Life UU & Prairie Circle UU We close out our 2025-2026 church year together as sibling congregations, with Prairie Circle UU visiting us at our new church home for a creative and interactive service. This Sunday will feature a round table, creativity café style service with opportunities for … Continue reading Glitter Blessings and T-Shirt Theologies
The beautiful hymn Wake Now My Senses, calls each of us to consider our shared ministry and the ways in which we are each called to respond to the earth and to our neighbors, with compassion and with conscience. This Sunday, Chaplain Dave will explore how this hymn expresses core values, beliefs, and commitments that may guide … Continue reading Wake Now My Senses
Note we are meeting at new time in new location Join us as we continue the beloved tradition of Flower Communion, begun over 100 years ago in Czechoslovakia and cherished by UU congregations around the world, celebrating the beauty of our uniqueness and diversity, interconnectedness, life, and community. Tree of Life members and friends are invited to … Continue reading Power and Beauty In Diversity: Celebrating the UU Tradition of Flower Communion
“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” asks the poet Mary Oliver in the final line of her poem The Summer Day. Perhaps we can also ask ourselves, what will we do with our wild and precious church community and our wild precious church life? This Sunday we will explore where our … Continue reading Our Wild and Precious Church Life
From standing side by side with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr to running for president, civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was a political and moral force When he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 26 years ago, he was referred to as “the conscience of our nation”. What lessons does the life … Continue reading Keep Hope Alive: Lessons from Jesse Jackson
From standing side by side with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr to running for president, civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was a political and moral force When he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 26 years ago, he was referred to as “the conscience of our nation”. What lessons does the life … Continue reading Keep Hope Alive: Lessons from Jesse Jackson
