The Flower Ceremony is an annual tradition, symbolizing the power of both the individual and the community. We will again celebrate this festive ritual so bring …a flower for the bouquet. If you forget, we have plenty! As this is our last service with the Rev. Heather Janules, flowers will help us reflect on letting … Continue reading A Bouquet of Stories: The Flower Ceremony
As we approach Memorial Day, this service will reflect on the ways militarism and war are part of a nation’s identity and invite us to imagine a different way of being. What if there were no need to remember our veterans who have died in battle? With violence raging in Ukraine and the Middle East … Continue reading Lay Down Our Sword and Shield
“Love is always a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.” In this month centered on pluralism, this service will reflect on the complexity of Mother’s Day and the gifts and challenges of committing one’s self over time to a person, a community, a … Continue reading Choosing to Love
As we begin a month centered on Pluralism, this service will explore the disability justice movement, the needs of disabled people and the ways in which inclusion of disabled people serves…anyone and everyone with a body. How can we reimagine expectations of our physical selves and the world bodies have to navigate? Click here for: Order … Continue reading “Limitation is the Place We Connect”: Disability Justice
We celebrate the ancient story of Jesus’ rebirth and the ways new life continues to astonish us in our own time. This family-friendly service serves as religious education for the morning. Come early to take part in the egg hunt at 9:45 am! The Adult Choir welcomes all who would like to join in singing … Continue reading Rolling Away the Stone: The Surprise of Easter
In preparation for the Throwing of the Colors in honor of Holi after worship, this service will explore a number of Spring festivals, inviting us to consider what our spirits need to bloom Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order Of Service for 3/24/2024 New Online Visitors Sign-Up Point your smart-phone at the QR … Continue reading Awakening: Celebrations of the Season
Every human group – family, neighborhood, workplace, region…and congregation – has a culture. Culture is not just cuisines and languages but complex agreements about what is valued and what is not, what is permitted and what is inappropriate. Sometimes cultures are life-giving, sometimes they are obstacles to wholeness. This service will reflect on our awareness … Continue reading Grabbing Bananas: The Art of Transforming Culture
Cornell West reminds us that “justice is what love looks like in public.” As we continue to explore “liberating love,” this service will draw from Jason Stanley’s “How Fascism Works” and Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” to consider what a public love, countering authoritarianism, looks like. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order Of Service … Continue reading How Resistance Works
As we approach Valentine’s Day, a day focused on romantic love, this service will explore a different kind of love, the love we receive from beyond our circles of close connection. We will also celebrate and commission our Pastoral Care Associates, honoring the lay ministry of care between and among community members, sometimes even strangers… … Continue reading Love in the Universe
What if the Winchester Unitarian Society decided to deepen its already ambitious and effective commitment to environmental sustainability?How close could we come to functioning as a nearly carbon neutral congregation? And how quickly could we get there? Such a commitment raises other questions such as What would it take to approach carbon neutrality? and What … Continue reading We Can Do Hard Things
