Today’s the day we can decide to mend the fabric we divide…
Today is the day…
The church is a community of both memory and hope.
Memory. The church brings forward the wisdom, the stories of the past. It also brings forward the structures and the habits of the … read more.
“Come on in, take a seat,
Come on in, take a seat with Love”
“The presence of our love is here”
Our voluntaries this morning speak of a joyful, ecstatic welcome, welcoming that great Spirit of Love. And it is tangible. We can feel it in the atmosphere, … read more.
To begin again
Isn’t to go backwards,
But to decide to go.
Our story is…a spiral …
Shifting inward and outward…
We disembark both beside…and beyond
Who we were…
It is a return … and a departure.
It is almost exactly 2 years to the day since we closed this church for in-person … read more.
When our Eliot Chapel was being designed and built almost 100 years ago, one of the scripture passages that was chosen to be inscribed on the building, there on the corner of SW 12th and Salmon, was from the Book of Micah in the Hebrew … read more.
Thomas Moore called humility, “that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.” Humility seems to be contrary to a lot of what our culture values but perhaps it is a way to help us understand our place in the larger scheme of things.
Rev. Sinkford will answer questions from both our young people and adults about our faith, our church and our place in the world.
We will NOT gather for Service on Sunday, but live streaming will be available. View livestream here:
https://boxcast.tv/view/sunday-worship-277044
Words of Wendell Berry:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, … read more.
Anger, disappointment, pain, conflict — it can be hard to hold humility and perspective when things get rough. What are some practical ways that we can bring our best selves and our UU values into moments of tension and disagreement? How do we come back … read more.
James Baldwin wrote:
“If you can’t love anybody, you’re dangerous. You have no way of
learning humility, no way of learning that other people suffer…”
If you can’t love anybody, you’re dangerous.
“One month before Mama
turned 59 and two-months before Jan van Hooff’s eightieth birthday, these two
elderly hominids … read more.
“…humble never really
registered for me,” wrote Brian Doyle in our reading. It never really
registered “because I was not
humble, and had no real concept of humble…” Humility was something that he had
to learn…that he had to be taught by the living of life with his spouse and
children … read more.
