Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast. You can see a tutorial … Continue reading Monumental Change
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast. You can see a tutorial here: … Continue reading We Dance as Prayer: A Celebration of Hope and Simple Gifts
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Where Do We Go From Here?
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Celebrating Life in the Valley of the Shadow: A Service of Remembrance
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The use of police force against African Americans and other marginalized communities is one of the many catalysts to rising civil unrest, seemingly a conflict between efforts to “defund the police” and “back the blue.” Yet, like many social struggles, things are not quite this simple. This service will explore … Continue reading Whose Laws and What Order? Police, BLM and Us
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Individuals sometimes make decisions through a list of pros and cons. Groups sometimes make decisions through use of agendas and voting. These are fine tools…but sometimes the way forward is more complex and nuanced than a simple up or down vote. Returning to Susan Beaumont’s book How to Lead When … Continue reading Listening with a Spiritual Ear: Discernment
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Last week, we explored the powerful transformations that can take place in liminal time, the time in-between one thing and the next. Each year, the Jewish people intentionally practice living into liminal time through the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Between these two sacred holidays, we … Continue reading Whole Again: The Renewal of Yom Kippur
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Human life is defined by arrivals and departures from states of being – birth to death, night to day, Summer to Autumn. But so much happens in the spaces inbetween, the liminal spaces. As we continue in this time in-between with the pandemic, this service will reflect on the spiritual … Continue reading Sacred Liminality
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship It is our annual ritual, gathering from our summer days to begin a new congregational year together. We pour water into a common bowl, celebrating the earth and symbolizing that we are all “small streams pooling into one beautiful body.”
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Flower Communion is an annual ritual first created by Norbert Čapek so his congregation could celebrate their collective beauty, diversity and individuality. In this intergenerational service, we reflect on the lessons that Čapek and flowers themselves teach us about community in challenging times. Bring a flower when you log-on. You … Continue reading The Gospel of Flowers: Flower Communion
