A brief look at Process Theology and how we are called to be co-creators with the Divine. Please join us in-person or via ZOOM: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/8261399470 Or via phone: +1 646 876 9923Meeting ID: 826 139 9470 Please view our current COVID-19 guidelines before attending worship.
Beauty comes in many forms, by way of different kinds of experiences–from art, to nature, to music. What makes our experiences of beauty similar is the common experience of attraction. Beauty draws us near. Beauty lures. Beauty beckons. Why? To what? As people of progressive faith, how are we called to respond to the world’s … Continue reading Worship on Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 with Rev. Jennifer Johnson, “Beauty Beckons”
Please join us in-person or via ZOOM: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/8261399470 Or via phone: +1 646 876 9923Meeting ID: 826 139 9470 Please view our current COVID-19 guidelines before attending worship.
Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered through her research that old growth trees–so-called “Mother Trees”–communicate with younger trees by way of vast, underground fungal networks that bind the generations in a forest community. Especially in times of peril, Mother Trees make a special effort to impart their wisdom and resources to the younger generations, improving their … Continue reading Worship on Sunday, May 8th, 2022 with Rev. Jennifer Johnson: “The Wisdom of the Mother Tree”
Join via Zoom: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/8261399470 Join us online for our monthly evening service of reflection, ritual, and song. We will explore our May theme, Nurturing Beauty. What role does beauty play in spiritual life? What forms of beauty move and inspire you? How do we reconcile the world’s beauty with its brokenness? Join us to reflect … Continue reading Worship on May 4, 2022 with Rev. Jennifer Johnson, “Online Vespers: Nurturing Beauty”
In his closing statement from On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin points out that the world is replete with diverse expressions of beauty. Such abundant beauty is borne out of a complex process of change, differentiation, evolution. The Earth’s richness teaches us that beauty is not static, but changing; not uniform, but diverse; not … Continue reading Worship on Sunday, May 1st, 2022 with Rev. Jennifer Johnson: “Forms Most Beautiful and Wonderful”
We gather at the end of our regular church year to share the beauty of flowers and to bless our community. Here’s the Homily
[TEXT] Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that “Beauty will save the world.” How is this possible? Beauty around us, beauty among us, beauty within us – this would be a description of a kind of paradise. How can we, each of us, find and share more beauty?”
