Lessons from Listening to Sargasso – led by Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia In this presentation, I offer lessons learned from listening to sargasso, a seaweed currently landing in unprecedented volumes on Caribbean shores. Listening to seaweed, I suggest, challenges our imagined separation from nature and invites us into...
Water Communion & Ingathering Join us as we begin the 2025 – 26 church year with our beloved Water Communion service! Everyone is invited to bring a small container of water, whether from summer travels or a meaningful place closer to home, to add to our shared waters. Community Focus Collection (CFC) On the third...
Learning to Bless What We Cannot Fix – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching In a world quick to offer answers, what do we do with the wounds that can’t be healed and the problems that can’t be solved? This Sunday we’ll reflect on the quiet, transformative practice of blessing — of seeing and naming goodness...
The Mercy of Being Forgotten – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching We fear being forgotten, and yet sometimes forgetting is mercy itself. History, God, or the universe holds more than we can carry—the good, the bad, and the unfinished. What does it mean to live knowing that we are part of a story far larger...
Life Believing In Itself – The Rev. Mark Richards, preaching We are a nation divided by fear. Some say it is an existential fear of those who have a fundamentally different understanding of truth and reality. Others say it is a manufactured fear, generated by those seeking power playing on the unconscious prejudices of a...
October Worship Series: What We Inherit, What We Carry Forward: Hosea Ballou - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching This October, we’ll reflect on some of the people and movements whose courage and conviction helped shape the soul of our tradition. They were not perfect, yet they were faithful — faithful to love, to truth, and to...
October Worship Series: What We Inherit, What We Carry Forward - The Transcendentalists This October, we’ll reflect on some of the people and movements whose courage and conviction helped shape the soul of our tradition. They were not perfect, yet they were faithful — faithful to love, to truth, and to the hope of a more...
Where is the Wisdom We Have Lost in Knowledge? - The Rev. Michael Schuler, preaching Those words were originally penned by T.S. Eliot for his poem “The Rock.” They are quite old, but more relevant today I would argue than they were when first composed (almost ninety years ago). Community Focus Collection (CFC) On...
October Worship Series: What We Inherit, What We Carry Forward - Universalists and Unitarians in the Midwest This October, we’ll reflect on some of the people and movements whose courage and conviction helped shape the soul of our tradition. They were not perfect, yet they were faithful — faithful to love, to truth, and to the...
All Souls Day – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching Join us for our All Souls Day service, a time of shared remembrance for those whose lives have touched our own. This intergenerational service invites all to bring a photo or memento of a loved one who has died—recently or long ago—for our communal altar-building ritual. Join Us On Sundays...
Shoemaker, Stick to Thy Last – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching What does it mean to return to your craft, your calling, your center? In a time when everything demands our attention, perhaps wisdom begins with doing one thing well—and remembering why we do it at all. Join Us On Sundays For Services That Inform...
What I Keep Learning: Reminders - Rev. Suzanne Wasilczuk, guest preacher Reverend Suzanne talks about her work/play with kindergartners, and the many lessons she is blessed with every day. Suzanne is a semi-retired UU minister who lives in Duluth with her recently mostly-retired spouse, Tim Stratton, and who works as a Foster Grandparent, a program...