Topic: Atonement

We Are Not Our Own

Earlier this month the Washington Post Magazine
decided to illustrate its cover about climate change in an unusual way. To mark
the occasion of Earth Day—and the scale of the impact of global warming—it
produced not one but 24 magazine covers on the many ways global warming is
affecting … read more.

“To Rise” | Easter Sunday

We need this celebration. We are ready for a spring-inspired word of hope. It feels like we have been wintering for so long.

We are ready for tulips and blue skies after so much gray…

Like bulbs sending green shoots out of the earth, reaching up … read more.

Annual Youth Service

This is an annual tradition at First Unitarian—a service led by our high school youth in YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists). It’s a wonderful opportunity to experience what our church nurtures in young people. The service will include the musical talents and insightful homilies. … read more.

At One

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops
That make one circle, wide as daylight and starlight,
And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree
To shelter all the children
And I saw that it was holy.

One mighty flowering tree … read more.

Belonging

This month we have been exploring the
theme of paradox.  To introduce this
theme, Senior Minister, Bill Sinkford, offered this definition:

The
word comes to us from Greek and originally meant simply “contrary opinion,” a
different point of view. But the concept has come to represent those truths
that refuse to … read more.