May 25 is our annual Poetry Sunday, and the worship service will be built around poetry readings by our congregants. Some people will read a favorite poem that is meaningful to them and others will read their own original poems. There will be a time reserved for impromptu poetry readings! If you love poetry, be … Continue reading Poetry Sunday
Music has been a powerful tool in social justice movements. Protest songs, anthems and other musical expressions have helped raise awareness, mobilize people, challenge injustices and inspire change. What are the church’s future music ministry possibilities and what music can offer us in these times? This year’s Music Sunday will feature our choir and Folksingers.The congregational meeting … Continue reading Beyond the Beat: Music as a Tool for Change
Our Mother’s Day service on May 11, will celebrate our annual flower communion, a tradition of Unitarian Universalist springtime. Come for stories of UU heroes – Olympia Brown, the first ordained female minister; Norbert Capek, the martyr who founded the first flower ceremony; and to honor all mothers everywhere. If you wish to bring pictures of … Continue reading Ceremony, History and Heroes
As Unitarian Universalists we commit to the journey of living in covenant with one another across multiple generations. But what is covenant? How do we begin again after covenant is broken? What does our covenant mean for the family ministry program that we are seeking to build? Religious Education town hall meeting will follow the service. … Continue reading Are We There Yet: Covenantal Faith and Family Ministry
How much do you know about our second U? The 1961 merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America gave rise to the UUism that we know and practice today. But both traditions had a rich history before the last century, and beyond the boundaries of the United States. Join favorite … Continue reading Hope Not Hell: Universalism Stories
Friend and neighbor at First Unitarian Church in Dallas, the Reverend Daniel Kantor recently wrote, “The world does not ask whether we ‘have faith’ or ‘don’t have faith.’ Such a binary perspective is limiting, divisive, and at some level abusive. The question I am asking is: What type of faith is possible?” If love is … Continue reading Love Extravagantly!
