The climate crisis inspires strong feelings of fear, anger and despair. But these feelings can be a source of energy towards taking concrete actions that make a difference. Each one of us can be part of the solution! In recognition of Earth Day, WUS’s members, including some of our environmental leaders, will share how they … Continue reading “Hope is a Verb with Sleeves Rolled Up”: Earth Day
When someone dies, most people automatically call a funeral home. However, it has only very recently been this way. The profession of funeral director, along with the related array of goods and services comprising the American funeral industry, emerged in the latter 19th century and flourished over the 20th century. This century, however, a broad … Continue reading Green Burial: Reclaiming Our Dead and Their Death
Long-time members of WUS have many memories of good experiences with food in community – Circle Dinners, Pie Sunday, holiday potlucks, the Chili Cook Off, the Spaghetti Dinner. This Sunday, in preparation for Earth Day, we will explore the connections between growing and sharing food, planetary health, spiritual healing and social justice. This sevice will … Continue reading Earth Communion: Reclaiming Our Connection Through Food
What do we need to live our values out loud? What will inspire us into really changing our behavior? This Earth Day Sunday members of the WUS’ Green Sanctuary Team present a service that will touch on the practical, the spiritual and the visionary as a way to aid us in healing the earth.
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
Earth Day invites us to consider our relationship with the environment. While the news as of late has been sobering, hope remains. Our Green Sanctuary Committee will lead this service, inviting us into spiritual connection and mutual relationship with the earth and affirming the need to act as grateful stewards. “Earth Day: Many Paths to … Continue reading Earth Day: Many Paths to Hope
This Sunday we celebrate the Earth with new music for choir and jazz quartet by music director John Kramer. This suite both celebrates the wonder of nature while addressing some of the serious issues that lie ahead. Texts include poetry by Emily Dickinson, Wendell Berry, and the summary of the October, 2018 IPCC report on … Continue reading Music Sunday: A Jazz Suite for Earth Day
There is a great need for movements seeking justice – economic justice, racial justice and ecological justice. Environmental Justice invites us to see how human rights and the state of the environment are connected. Inspired by the UUA common read Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the … Continue reading Whose Earth is it Anyway?: Environmental Justice
One thing I have always known about myself is that I have a brown thumb. Whenever somebody gives me a plant, I immediately worry about how much time we will have together. How long will it take for my neglect to turn this beautiful plant into a brown, shriveled mess? It is strange that I … Continue reading The Parable of the Brown Thumb
