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Dorothy Day said, “When violence becomes ritualized, it no longer aims at peace. It sustains identity. It preserves budgets. It organizes loyalty. It stabilizes power through repetition. It becomes theatre.” Has war become America’s new theology? Join us in person in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 958 336 800 One tap mobile+16694449171,,958336800# US+16699009128,,958336800# US … Continue reading The Theology of War
In the story of the Little Prince, he is constantly wishing to explore the world more and more, and there are many a compelling scene in which he arrives on a new planet, and what happens when he meets the residents. Let’s journey with Le Petite Prince!
The Egg”, by novelist Andy Weir, has been translated into 30 languages by its readers, speaks of a profound meeting of a recently deceased man, and God(?), showing how we are all part of the interdependent web. Join us in person in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 958 336 800 One tap mobile+16694449171,,958336800# US+16699009128,,958336800# … Continue reading Being an Egg
Beltane is traditionally characterized by bonfires, fertility rituals, and celebrations of nature’s peak vitality. The festival signifies a transition from the darkness of winter to the light of summer. Join us in person in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 958 336 800 One tap mobile+16694449171,,958336800# US+16699009128,,958336800# US (San Jose)
“What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country still waiting to be born? What if the story of America is one long labor?” Valerie Kaur asks those words in a prayer – are we in the … Continue reading The Possibilities in Darkness
A beautiful intergenerational celebration of the Unitarian Flower Ceremony offered by Rev. Norbert Fabien Čapek. Join us as we celebrate Flower Communion – a Unitarian Universalist sacrament created by Rev. Čapek, of the Unitarian Church of Prague, nearly a century ago. The celebration continues as the children hunt eggs for Easter! Join us in person … Continue reading Flower Ceremony x Easter Egg Hunt!
“Acts of exclusion, discrimination, and the impacts of systemic oppression are all there, right before me. I don’t always perceive them—I have been taught to not see them—but they are there…” says Rev. Karen G. Johnston. What acts of exclusion or systemic oppression have you witnessed, but have become so “used to seeing it,” that … Continue reading Inviting Our Authentic Selves
W.B. Yeats said, “The world is full of magic things. Waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” How do we touch that deep well within ourselves that allows us to become the human we were meant to be? How do we see the magic when all around us is despair? Join us in person in … Continue reading The Act of Becoming
William James—the American philosopher and psychologist—helps explain why this feels so costly. He teaches us that distraction isn’t only a productivity problem. It’s a formation problem… your life isn’t only what happens to you. It’s what you let in. It’s what you linger on… With constant “sound bites” and “doom scrolling,” we do have to … Continue reading Age of Distraction
On the 70th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, UUFS member Amy Mori shared her first-hand account of the Japanese internment that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. UUFS Member Margaret Lawson kept that speech, and in honor of the 84th anniversary of the order’s signing, we present it … Continue reading Executive Order 9066: In the Words of Amy Mori
