Despite some concern cultural stereotypes that history is about facts and dates, history is very much about the stories we tell about what happened. And who tells those stories, and what facts are included, very much shape our understandings of the past. This Sunday, as we prepare to look at WUS’s history through the lens … Continue reading Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
We sometimes celebrate the power of saying “yes” – people write books and blogs about their experiences of trying to say “yes” as much as possible to everything. The power of “no” is less celebrated and yet equally important. The ability to say “no,” keep out the unwanted, and set boundaries, is actually fundamental to … Continue reading No, That’s Not Okay
Finding Joy in the Face of Darkness. There are a lot of bad things happening in our country right now, which is causing many of us a significant amount of anxiety and distress. We are still working out the best strategies for resistance – in the meantime, how do we stay resilient and keep our … Continue reading Resilience in Practice:
Love is one of those squishy words that can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, while also being used frequently by many of us assuming we mean the same thing. Our new Unitarian universalist shared values place love at the center – If love is at the center, we … Continue reading Love In Action
In Western culture our thinking and beliefs about God are often shaped by the predominance of the Christian understanding of God, which, like any singular perspective, can be limiting. In Islam, there are 99 names for God – join us as we explore some of these names, and consider what a broader understanding of divinity … Continue reading Virtual Service: The 99 Names of God
We are switching to a Zoom-only service because of the snow storm, and so instead of the youth-led service we had scheduled, or service this Sunday will reflect on how we find hope in the face of feeling hopeless, with all that is going on in our country and in the world. Click here for: … Continue reading Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
An underutilized framing to think about how the human experience works is the lens of understanding and meeting needs. Much of if not all of life is about meeting the needs we have, from food, shelter, and safety, to human connection, joy, and purpose. And yet beyond the essentials needed for life, we rarely talk … Continue reading Meeting Needs
Stories hold a very powerful role in the human experience – before we had written words, they were how we defined ourselves and our cultures, through the oral tradition. The stories we tell ourselves about who we are shape our lives and the choices we make. Stories can and do have tremendous impact on the … Continue reading The Power of Story
We tend to love the certainty of answers in our culture, and, in Unitarian Universalism, we actually value the questions more than the answers. It is one of the unique things about Unitarian Universalism, in fact, that we hold our questions tighter than our answers. Join us as we explore the power of questions to … Continue reading Loving the Questions
At the beginning of each year, we invite three members of the WUS community, representing three generations, to reflect on the poet Mary Oliver’s compelling question “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Come hear how Giorgio Cantoni, Victoria Ippolito, and Woody Wood respond and consider how you … Continue reading Our Wild and Precious Life
