Finding Spirituality in Our Woods Pat Homer, Certified Forest Therapist Our guest speaker leads spiritual forest walks in Aiken’s Hitchcock Woods, Statesboro, GA and other SE locations. She invites us to renew our spirits, restore our peace, and return to ourselves by practicing what Japanese traditions call “forest bathing.” She asks us to meditate on the following … more
No Short Cut to Freedom:A celebration of life lived with integrity, courage, and compassion
Presented by Sam Dack, President of the Board of Trustees, AUUC member since 2005, raconteur, self-described sage, picker, grinner, and stubborn optimist.
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The July Worship Schedule will be published the first week of July. We are coordinating dates with several wonderful new guest speakers.… more
Sometimes we meet a person who transform our understanding of our shared world and the people in it. Rabbit Rachael Bregman of Temple Beth Tefilloh in Brunswick, GA is the touchstone of my journey… more
Water holds ritual significance in my cultures and its unique composition allows for life on earth. In those sacred moments, which I call moments of ministry, which happen every day, if we are vigilant and paying attention; is the presence of water significant?… more
We have been conditioned to believe that the world outside of us is more real than the world inside us and that our external world determines our internal world. This has led a deep sense of disconnectedness and a perpetual state of stress within us as we make futile attempts to keep up with the changes in the external world!… more
How may we practice “the fragile art of hospitality” even as we “hold the whole world in our hands”? (Quoted From William Shultz, past president UUA, past director Amnesty International, current director UUSC.)… more
During my message on May 6th I said, “If you think that we are just the progressive alternative to orthodox religion; you are missing something. We are not merely the opposition, we are a whole different paradigm.” This morning I will unpack that statement and examine other misconceptions about Unitarian Universalism.
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As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to exercise our agency by promoting the ideals embodied in our fifth principle. We uphold the right of conscience and the democratic process by being full participants in the governance of this church –congregational polity. On this Sunday of our annual meeting let’s begin a discussion about the balance inherit in congregational polity.
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Memorial Day weekend calls us into memory, inviting us to honor the place beloveds occupied in the stream of life and helping us to know whose we have been, who we are in the stream of life and who we might yet be.… more
