Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: Water Communion OOS Water Communion is a yearly celebration of the gifts and lessons of the earth and the return to community. This year, we come together in yet another new way, with some gathering in the sanctuary, some at home, all together. What … Continue reading “Until We Are Together Again”: Water Communion
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship It is our annual tradition, honoring the furry, tailed, finned, scaled, feathered creatures with whom we share this marvelous planet. We will gather in person outdoors – weather and covid permitting – and friendly and vaccinated companion animals are welcome. There will be treats and cool water available. We will also … Continue reading Celebrating the Web of Life: An Animal Blessing Service
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Generations ago, a Unitarian minister created a ritual celebrating the individuality of every person, the power of a number of individuals coming together and the beauty of each individual freely choosing to join the others. This is Flower Communion, a ritual whose meaning has only deepened in this year of national … Continue reading The Transient and the Permanent: Flower Communion
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Leaning into Learning. As Rebecca Kelley-Morgan takes her leave of WUS after 12 plus years, reflections on what learning looks like in the faith community and beyond. Some thoughts on what Rebecca has learned from WUS and the inspiration drawn from these words from T.H. White “There is only one thing … Continue reading The Accidental Learner
Human memory is a powerful yet malleable experience. In this Memorial Day service, we will draw from David Blight’s “Race and Reunion” to consider the practice of memorializing after war, the role of identities in how memory is collectively constructed and the lessons for us to consider as we approach own time of post-traumatic reconstruction. … Continue reading Forgetting and Remembering: The Art of Reunion
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship This past year, a number of members of the WUS community explored how spiritual growth can enhance our leadership and how leading and serving can also be spiritual practices. This was done through the adult religious education program Harvest the Power. This service will reflect on some of the critical lessons … Continue reading Harvest the Power
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Stories are at the heart of human communities and carry meaning from person to person, generation to generation. As we continue to explore Susan Beaumont’s book “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going,” this service will explore the touchstone stories that contribute to the identity of a … Continue reading What We Do Matters: Sacred Storytelling
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship In this time of celebrating Earth Day, this service will explore how we can pay better attention to our precious planet and use our voices and our actions as reverent advocates for our physical and spiritual home. This service will be co-led by members of our Green Sanctuary team and our … Continue reading The Earth Speaks
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship There has been a terrible mistake – Eleanor Shellstrop learns she has died and gone to the Good Place but has not actually done any of the virtuous deeds to be there. Thus begins the television show “The Good Place,” inviting its viewers to consider the nature of the afterlife, mistakes … Continue reading The Good Place
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Perhaps there are children in your household who ask “Why do we go to church?” Perhaps when you were a child, you asked that same question. As the Winchester Unitarian Society considers its next chapter in religious education for our youngest community members, this service will invite us to consider the … Continue reading “To Touch Inward Springs”: Envisioning Faith Formation
