Our service explores the need for finding safety and security in close community and among allies, as well as examining the importance of cultural traditions in building resilience, and how that community building can extend to all people. After the service everyone is invited for coffee and conversation. Worship services are at 10am at Tree of … Continue reading By The Numbers
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
Join us at Woodstock Pride Fest this Sunday for a short service and glitter blessing before we walk and ride in the parade together. We can build a better, more beloved community when we are all allowed to flourish. We will meet next to the Tree of Life UU float as we line up for … Continue reading Flourishing Together with Pride
Click on this service to get the correct Zoom link rather than using the blue button. 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 … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Resilience?
What are the life lessons, and lessons for our spirit and our faith, that we can learn from the waters that surround us? This Sunday we explore and celebrate our connection to one another and to the wider web of life, our one world and one interconnected body of water. Our worship service will include … Continue reading In Praise of What Connects Us: Our Annual Water Communion Ceremony
Tree of Life Flower Wheel Service Today is a worship celebration through music, led by the Wailin’Mahalias. As a community we will decorate our Flower Wheel, so if youhave access to wildflowers, attractive weeds, or garden flowers, pleasebring a handful to share. In readings drawn from different faiths, we’llreflect on the power of Love that’s … Continue reading The Circle and Hoop of Community
Anyone has felt loneliness. It can be a temporary pang from being alone, the sense of disconnection (even surrounded by others), or feeling misunderstood. Also, loneliness can be chronic or persistent with underlying and systemic causes. Recently the World Health Organization shared that loneliness is a major health challenge of our time, “affecting heart, mind, … Continue reading The Real Pain of Loneliness
Our Sunday worship service will include our annual celebration of Flower Communion, a practice in Unitarian Universalist Churches throughout the world, to embrace the beauty in our diversity and uniqueness. As part of the ceremony, each person is invited to bring a flower with them, whether it is a wildflower from a field, a flower … Continue reading Inspired Gifts: A Celebration of Flower Communion and of our Community
An old and very beautiful Irish proverb states, “It is in the shelter of each other that people live.” In this day and age, how is that we lie in the shelter of each other? As we face the challenges of our time, it can be so easy to lose sight of our connection and … Continue reading In the Shelter of Each Other
Does it matter where you spend your time? Are we impacted by the ways we engage with ourselves and our world? Taking care of the earth, our church community, and one another is one of the joys and responsibilities of living. How we wrestle to ensure our beliefs are lived out in our deep connection … Continue reading Why Church, Why Liberal?
