Featuring the music of the Celtic Clan and led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer, Director of Religious Education Karen Lapidus and Worship Associate Justin Czekaj, our Winter Solstice service will celebrate the return of the light following the longest night of the year. This multigenerational service will include time for reflecting and rejoicing at the turning of the year. Nursery care will be offered for children ages 3 and under. A wassail party will follow the service.
Photo: NASA
Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Elaine Bowen – What might happen if you were to say yes to the possibilities tugging at your spirit? This first Sunday of Advent we will consider Mary’s yes and the difference it made.
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Led by Mike Hovancsek with Worship Associate Joel Slater – This service will tie together spiritual and therapeutic concepts about acceptance and healing.
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Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer, Director of Religious Education Karen Lapidus and Worship Associate Bonnie Harper – Grace, gracious, grateful – these all share the same root. This morning during our special multigenerational celebration of Thanksgiving we’ll lift up the connections. Special music and a Thanksgiving communion will be part of our celebration this morning. (The song sung by the choir in podcast below, “We Give Thanks,” is copyrighted by Wendy Luella Perkins, www.wendyluellaperkins.com)
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Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Justin Czekaj – Does luck have anything to do with grace? Theologically, what is the difference? And practically speaking, what differ-ence does any difference make in our lives? This morning we’ll dive deeper into the questions.
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Led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate MaryLou Holly – That is my favorite definition of grace – an unexpected gift. This morning will serve as an introduction to the theme of grace. What other definitions are there? What is grace all about? How do we make space for it in our lives?
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Join us at 10:00 or 11:30 am for a service led by the Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Max Grubb – It is an important question in an age of factionalized media and big money. This morning we will explore the challenge of participation in the democratic process.
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Led by Kathy Kerns with Worship Associate Kristina Spaude – We live in a world where we constantly come into contact with people who espouse views that differ from our own. How can we respond to this, in ways that reflect our values? This service will consider ways of staying true to our beliefs while peacefully co-existing with others.
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Service Leader: Elaine Yehle Bowen and Worship Associate John Marfy – A pacifist Unitarian Universalist living in a flag wrapped America can be a challenge. Come along with me on my journey to maintain a necessary separation of church and state. Together, let’s redefine what being a patriotic American means through a UU lens.
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Led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer, Director of Religious Education Karen Lapidus and Worship Associate Sophie Smith – Susan B. Anthony devoted many years of her life fighting for women’s right to vote. She died before that right was won. In this multigenerational service, we will tell her story and reflect on the lessons we can still learn from that struggle. We will also welcome and celebrate the newest members of our congregation this morning.
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A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Kathy Kerns – For all its trouble, most of us believe life is an incredibly precious gift. We want future generations to have the opportunities we have had to create lives of meaning and purpose. We want them to be well. This morning we will consider the ways we can help create enduring legacies of love.
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A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Dani Beale – What are the possibilities and limits of forgiveness? What impact does forgiveness have on the forgiven? What impact does it have on the one who offers forgiveness? How do our choices to forgive or withhold forgiveness echo down the generations? Come join us in reflecting on these worthy questions.
Quote by Paul Boese Feb.19, 1967
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A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate MaryLou Holly – The more I learn about the formation of the universe, the more astonishing it seems that we are here. Our earth is a living legacy of an extraordinary confluence of cosmic events. Come discover again what Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow call The Great Story of humanity’s common creation. Come consider again your part in tending the legacy we hope will continue to evolve for countless generations to come.
Image:Cassiopeia nubual
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Led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Kristina Spaude – At last year’s auction of goods and services, Beverly Cole purchased the opportunity to select a topic for one of our Sunday services. This is that service! After a lifetime of teaching in public schools, Bev has been deeply dismayed by the tragedy of school shootings. While not at schools, the horrific shootings this past summer have many of us thinking again about the terror and heartbreak of shootings in our society. Why is this happening and what can we do to try to help shape new legacies of peace? In addition, during the Time for All Ages, we will commission and thank the many volunteers who will be teaching, facilitating and advising our children and youth in our religious education program this year.
Led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer, Director of Religious Education Karen Lapidus and Worship Associate Eric van Baars – The essayist Diane Ackerman speaks of transcendent play – a form of play which she says we humans need in order to feel whole. I am taken with this idea of play as a pathway to transcendence. What is that path like and how can we take it? These are the questions that will guide us this morning as we gather for our annual multigenerational Ingathering Service. If you have been away this summer or if your summer routine has kept you from attending church regularly, consider this your invitation to return.
This is our Ingathering service. Please bring a little vial of water and a bit of earth with you to this service if you would like to participate in our annual ritual of gathering water and soil. If you can, consider bringing the water and earth from a place where you lost yourself in the joy of play this summer.
NASA image of Cat’s Eye nebula.
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