Margery Kempe was a medieval mystic who lived in England in the early 15th century. This service will explore her intimate, vulnerable, shocking and at times notably annoying autobiography, widely considered to be the first of its kind in the english language. Through Margery’s many pilgrimages, visions, and altercations with religious authorities, she becomes, if not a saint as she may have hoped, a beacon of authenticity, personal devotion, and self expression.

Our UUA General Assembly calls us to ask the hard and holy questions: Where are we placing our energy? Who are we partnering with? And how do we make change that ripples outward — through our congregation, our communities, and our denomination? This Sunday, Rev. Christe will reflect on what we might carry home from GA to feed us and inspire us to engage in our collective resources that can meet the urgency of this moment — not someday, but now.

161 years ago, 2.5 years after the emancipation proclamation, the final group of enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, heard the news of their freedom – the first Juneteenth. And this Sunday, we celebrate the Summer Solstice and Father’s Day as well. In a beautiful world with so much injustice, how do we decide whether to “save or savor the world?”

Human community is messy, and yet we need one other for more than we can ever fully grasp. As we celebrate our 230-year legacy as a congregation, how will we choose to carry forward our inheritance of working together across difference for spiritually deep lives and greater justice in the world?

How can the history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ movements help us all to get in touch with our inherent worth, joy, and power to resist oppression? Join us Sunday to reflect, receive a glitter blessing, and for all who wish, to head together to the Pride festival afterwards!

Music held us together through COVID lockdown, pulling us together when we were apart. This year’s Music Sunday was inspired these songs brought us collective joy in those dark days. This annual service is led by our Music Director, John B Hedges and features our wide array of talented music ensembles! View the full collection of songs from Sunday.

There are seasons when we reach for what has always sustained us — prayer, community, meaning, hope — and come up empty. The practices that once filled us feel hollow. The certainties we relied on have cracked. And the spring rain becomes flood waters.

Every tradition has a name for this. The Psalmist cried it. Rumi’s reed flute wept it. The Buddhist teacher points to it as the ache at the heart of being human.

Rev. Christe will explore: what is the water table beneath the dry season? What holds when our usual sources fail us?

Most of us have a loved one who has wrestled with addiction, or we have wrestled ourselves. And yet we continue to hide where this medical condition shows up in our lives, letting the shame around addiction isolate us and cut us off from the tools that can bring healing. How can we move away from shame and deepen our capacity for transformative love?

As children, we explore the world with an inherent sense of curiosity and awe. Responsibilities descend onto our shoulders as we get older, however, and it can be hard to find time for anything other than keeping our heads down and getting through our duties of work and caregiving. How can we reclaim simple pleasures of joy and wonder?

Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh taught that the next Buddha may not take the form of an individual, but rather arise as a community. In a sea of flawed figureheads and imperfect communities, how do we build the soul-relationships that can lead to spiritual awakening and justice in our world?

This Sunday we explore what it means to awaken curiosity again — not as a pleasant spiritual quality, but as a practice with real consequences. What does it look like to meet the world with beginner’s mind? To shift from the clenched posture of anxiety into the open posture of wonder? To love the questions themselves, even when the answers aren’t coming?

There is a cognitive shift astronauts experience when viewing the earth from space, writes space philosopher Frank White, which results in a bone-deep awareness of the miracle and fragility of our planet and our connections to one another and all life. As we near Earth day, how do we cultivate this kind of spiritual experience from our place on this beautiful blue boat home?