Animals bring us pleasure, calmness, compassion, hope and healing — especially where we have experienced deep trauma. (Well behaved animal companions are welcome to attend this service and receive a blessing and a treat!) Mary Strine is an AUUC Member and Pet Therapy Trainer.… more
“Ours is not an easy faith but it is a strong and healing faith,” Rev. Sally White. I will unpack this statement from my mentor and share with you why Unitarian Universalism has been enough for me over the last 13 years.… more
Let’s look at the Christian holiday of Easter and delve deeper into its similarities with Pagan rites which predate it. Maybe we can find, along the way, some inspiration for us modern Unitarian Universalists.… more
Boundaries, limits, lines, borders and walls. Most of us believe that walling people out from receiving life-giving necessities is cruel. But when is clarity, kindness? Let’s look at the complications inherent in boundaries.… more
Becoming- Today, I will share lessons I have learned from the former First Lady, Michelle Obama. This service will include recognition of New Members.… more
Circular ritual-rich worship service includes quite, meditation and a time for centering.… more
The Transformation Machine, Climb on board my time machine. Don’t worry, it is bigger on the inside. I want to take you back in time, in order to cast a vision for the future.… more
Amazing Grace is perhaps the most beloved Christian hymn. Bill Moyers did an hour long special on PBS about it. Andy will share his understanding of grace through several stories of moments of “grace” in his and his wife’s life.… more
Considering connection vs purity. How often do religious people, including ourselves in our own way, demand a certain orthodoxy from people and cut them out instead of reaching out in a nondualistic way for connection.… more
