Topic: Traditional Service

My Spiritual Journey as an Undercover Jew

A short life story of my evolving religious and cultural identity from New York Jew to Unitarian with a few decades of liberal Catholicism in a world where being Jewish is dangerous.

Speaker Bio

Ronni Lacroute been producing and sponsoring music, theatre, and dance programs focused on … read more.

Burning Bowl Ceremony

The burning bowl ceremony makes space for new beginnings and in setting new intentions for the new year. It’s time to clear out unwanted conditions from our lives, this ceremony offers a sacred and powerful way to release negativity and welcome in the new year … read more.

Water Communion Service

The Water Communion, also sometimes called Water Ceremony, was first used at a Unitarian Universalist (UU) worship service in the 1980s. The Water Ceremony/ Communion Service is an excellent opportunity for Unitarian Universalist congregations to express their commitment to our Sixth Principle: We covenant to … read more.

Why did so many Sikhs help at Sheridan?

Come and hear how the tenets of Sikhism relate to why so many Sikhs helped with the release of asylum seekers at the Sheridan Federal Correction Center last summer. Navneet Kaur, one of the interpreters who helped with the men from India and Nepal, was … read more.

What Wicca adds to the world’s faiths tapestry

Wicca is a life-affirming, earth- and nature-oriented religion which sees all of life as sacred and interconnected, honors the natural world as the embodiment of divinity, immanent as well as transcendent, and experiences the divine as feminine and often as masculine, as well.

Speaker Bio

Andrea Joy … read more.

Flower Communion

The Flower Ceremony, sometimes referred to as Flower Communion or Flower Festival, is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. It was originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Capek of Prague, Czechoslovakia. It brings together the uniqueness and acceptance … read more.

The Bounce — Finding our resilience

Why do many people and organizations crumble in the face of difficulty, while others use adversity to bounce back even stronger? The experience of bounce can range from an uncanny feeling of levitation to a supreme tranquil relaxation. It is precisely when all seems lost … read more.

Standing Tall

Now more than ever, this Fellowship’s Vision, Mission, and Covenant along with the seven Principles of UU and the Proclamation of the Living Traditions we draw upon, need to be lived, celebrated and broadcast to the world. We live in challenging times where … read more.

Jesus Then and Now

On this Easter Sunday let us reasonably speculate as to what sort of person Jesus was and how Christianity and he have morphed from then to now. We’ll remember some early Unitarian and Universalist forms of Christianity and consider what this all might mean … read more.

Out of Alienation

Paradoxically, even as we are more connected digitally, the more isolated and alienated many become.    Social disconnection is a grievous condition that more and more fall prey to.  To counter the forces that drive us apart Martin Luther King, Jr. held out a vision … read more.