Rev. Bill Sinkford and Intern Minister Mira Mickiewicz Winter Solstice is a time of darkness moving toward light. What can we learn from this time of rest, renewal, and looking forward? Join us for an interactive and embracing special service.

https://vimeo.com/353844962 Rev. Bill Sinkford This is love searching love. The beautiful choral phrases of our anthem invite us to turn inward. The season is an invitation make a space in the busyness of life… An invitation to rest…yes. But also an invitation to allow our hearts to reclaim their yearning.…

  “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come.” We Unitarian Universalists love this poem and the songs it inspired. We identify as…

The Chalice Choir, presents Ola Gjeilo’s newest large work, which follows the medieval Norwegian epic poem-tale, Draumkvedet. Therein, Olav Åsteson enters a deep sleep on Christmas Eve. He wakes up and heads immediately to the church, where he tells the tales of his dream adventures through paradise and infernal despair,…

I’m so glad to be with all of you this morning. I’ve met a lot of you already, and I know that there are probably a lot more folks out there who still have questions about me. I’ll take a guess that one of the most prominent ones is, “How…

Mira Mickiewicz

  This is the day we have been given. We have been given to this day. DeReau, thank you for focusing this morning musically on that phrase that we use as our benediction each week. There is a good deal of theology embedded in that phrase, but it is first…

  How lovely it is to have the Sophia Singers…and the Beacon Bells… with us this morning…sounding bright notes of hope as we enter this time of long darkness. The Russian carol the choir sang speaks of the wind seeming to be “full of singing.” Perhaps that singing in the…

  From the book of Psalms: Thus have you prepared the land, Drenching its furrows, Breaking up its clods, softening it with showers, Blessing its yield. You have crowned the year with your bounty And with abundant harvest. The allow meadows overflow, The alleys are blanketed with flocks. They shout…

  I am not completely certain, but I think this may be the first time that the choir has sung “Boogie Wonderland.” That’s one image of the Beloved Community…Boogie Wonderland…where we boogie our way toward love and justice. Perhaps that driving disco beat is exactly what we need. What a…

  “What have you produced for Me?” God asks in our reading. “What have you bought with your life?” It is a question that can catch you up short. It is a question that can call everything else into question. What have you bought with your life? Rumi, the Muslim…

Legend has it that high up on a snow-covered mountain is the home of the great god Indra, king of the heavens. In his beautiful home hangs a vast, wondrous net, like a spider's web in delicacy and beauty. This magnificent net stretches out indefinitely in all directions. At each…

“Be a wetland. Detoxify what is upstream. Pass on liberation.” Wetlands help purify air and water, they detoxify wastes, they promote new life, restore degraded resources…they harbor biodiversity. They harbor diversity. Wetlands model mutuality and function in sustainability. What would it look like if we approached our personal living informed…

  Mutuality. This is a lens and a language that we have not focused on explicitly before…though for a liberal religious faith grounded in love, mutuality has to be part of our practice. But let me start with the basics. Vocabulary.com defines mutuality as a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities…

what i want is to be blessed what i want is a cloak of air the light entering my lungs my love entering my body the blessing descending like the sky sliding down the spectrum what i want is to be aware of the spaces between stars, to breathe continuously…

  This Sunday we welcome The Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray to our pulpit.  Rev. Frederick-Gray is the ninth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). She was elected in June 2017 to a six-year term. She has served as lead minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix since 2008. She previously served…

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. On Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown announced that California, frustrated with the slowing pace of research on global warming and in a final rebuke to President Trump’s denial of its human causes, would launch a satellite of its…

Personal integrity is a high value in our liberal faith, but not the only value. Understanding the blessings and the challenges that have shaped us can allow us to ground our dreams in an integrity born of honesty and humility.

  Happy New Year! It’s that most wonderful time of the year again, when we look back fondly the old, at what has passed. We take all those lessons that we learned and together we ring in the new. We examine what we want to accomplish in this New Year…

What in our religion opens us up to our inherent worth and dignity, reminds us to praise life and helps us to reconstruct the world?

  America is a Dream. The dream of Beloved Community. A work in process. A creation that we are all making…always. Nothing is fixed…forever…as James Baldwin wrote. And that constant process of creation means that our participation is always needed and necessary. That is why there is need for lamentation…

  A favorite hymn declares that “to question is an answer.” Rev. Sinkford will respond to your questions about our faith or about our church. A sermon will certainly emerge.

  This last week I had the chance to take a walk with my neighbor, Riley, who is 5 years old and will start kindergarten this Fall. I can hear Riley correcting me on this—actually he is 5 ½ years old and will have a birthday before too long. Riley’s…

Music gives voice to our deepest longings, and shapes our understanding of the deepest truths. As our democracy faces one crisis after another, our "songs bind us together, give us courage together" (MLK). We'll explore music's role in shaping and transforming our communities with Rev. Jason Shelton, one of our…

  Our spiritual theme this month has been democracy. And when you get a few layers underneath democracy you quickly come to the theme of power. Democracy is, after all, a form of governance that attempts to create an orderly way to share power among some group of people or…

  Back in May, the state of Alabama filed suit against the US Government over the upcoming census in 2020. Now, it’s not too unusual for a state to file suit against the federal government over something, and this year, it’s not unusual for a state to file suit about…