Starting Over Without Starting from Scratch We like to talk about “fresh starts,” as if life came with a reset button. But most of the time we don’t begin again from a blank page—we begin again with our history, our mistakes, our loves, our scars. This sermon considers what it means to start over without...
How We Become Teachable Again - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching Most of us don’t resist change because we’re stubborn. We resist it because we’re tired, afraid, or bruised by life. But the soul can calcify. This sermon explores the lost art of becoming teachable again: returning to curiosity, humility, and spiritual flexibility in a...
Ask the Minister - the Rev. Brian Mason, preaching Bring your questions—serious, skeptical, tender, or practical. In this interactive service we’ll explore what Unitarian Universalists do best: wonder, seek honestly, and make room for complexity.
It’s All About Love - Led by Religious Service Committee members Sheryl Hemp, Mary Testin, and Randy Jefferson This Sunday we celebrate the most vital of human emotions. In its many forms and expressions love connects us by giving meaning, purpose, and pleasure to life. This Month's Ministry Partner On the third weekend of each...
Comfort Is Not a Compass - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching There’s a kind of decision-making that keeps us safe: avoid risk, avoid conflict, avoid change. And it works...until it doesn’t. This sermon explores what it means to choose engagement over comfort: not chasing drama, but choosing the hard, ordinary bravery of growth.
Listening for What Is Ours to Do - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching How do we listen for direction in a noisy and anxious world? When everything feels urgent, it becomes hard to know what truly asks for our attention and what does not. This service explores stillness, discernment, and the possibility that guidance does...
Life's Nagging Little Questions It’s often in times of extremity that “life’s nagging little questions,” questions about meaning, identity, purpose, and truth rise up in us, demanding answers. Today we explore the ways our UU faith can help us with the questions inspired by today’s moral and political difficulties as well as our personal ones. ...
What We Guard - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching Most of us have learned, quietly and over time, to keep certain things out. Certain risks, certain truths, certain people. This sermon asks what we've been guarding, and what it's costing us. We’re delighted to welcome the Irish Tune Peddlers — Randy Colton on violin, John...
Carried Gently Every meaningful choice forecloses other futures. That's not failure. That's what it means to have lived. What would it mean to carry our regrets not as wounds or verdicts, but simply as part of human life? We’re delighted to welcome the Irish Tune Peddlers, Randy Colton on violin, John Coletta on flute and penny...
What Survives - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching We spend a lot of energy holding our lives together. The roles we play, the certainties we lean on, the version of ourselves we've worked hard to maintain. On this last Sunday of Lent, this sermon asks what's actually load-bearing. What remains when the rest falls away,...
Easter - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching We gather on the morning that broke all the rules. The one the Christian tradition has been arguing about, celebrating, and returning to for two thousand years. Whatever you believe or can't quite believe, Easter asks the same question it always has: is there hope on the other...
I Believe - Organized by the Worship Committee In this church's tradition, members of our congregation step forward to share the personal convictions that have shaped and sustained them: the beliefs they've arrived at through living, loss, questioning, and grace. No creed required, no orthodoxy assumed. Just honest witness from people who have thought hard...