Sunday Service December 4 : The Gift of Presence As the winter holidays approach, are you thinking mostly about presents or more focused on presence? We will explore some of the ideas and methods offered by the Humanist Community at Harvard to nurture mindfulness and combat the stress often associated with the hustle and bustle of […]
November 27: Thanksgiving Poetry Readings Richard Albright and other members of the congregation will present poetry, prose and music related to the Thanksgiving holiday. Poetry: Edna Weigel, Pamela Lee, Jerry Fitzmaurice, Richard Albright Facilitator: Richard Albright Click Here to Listen
Sunday Service Nov. 20 : Najashi Najashi was the 7th century Christian ruler who protected early Muslim emigrants. Homily: Ahmed Meiloud Facilitator: Linda Lawrence Bio Ahmed Meiloud is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Middle East and North African Studies and a former Fulbright Scholar, with MAs in Near Eastern Studies and […]
November 13: When Story Is Not Enough Stories help us make sense of life, affirm our sense of individual identity and also help us build and preserve community. They can also limit us to one narrative or blind us to painful journeys in our lives or the lives of others. In this month of November, we […]
Sunday Service November 6: The Power of Stories Shakespeare wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” But we are more than puppets in someone else’s script. We can be directors, screenwriters, and authors – the stars of our own lives! Come and explore the playfulness and power of […]
Sunday Service October 30: Dia de los Muertos: Circle of Life We will celebrate the circle of life in this multi-age service and honor some of the traditions of our Mexican neighbors and friends. Children are welcome to wear their Halloween costumes. All are invited to bring a photo or memorabilia to place upon the altars […]
Sunday Service October 23: Loving the Hell out of the World How do you love someone you hate? How do you love when another unarmed man is killed by the state? What is love in the face of violence? What does your love look like? Message: Rev. Ron Phares Facilitator: Lorraine Groberg Click here […]
Meet a Muslim Special Podcast October 20th, 2016 Moina Shaiq is President of the Interfaith Council in Fremont, California. She answered questions to foster understanding of Muslims within the wider community. We know that people who have met Muslims are less likely to give into prejudice and fear against them. How do Muslims practice their […]
Sunday Service October 16 – Detained and Deported Margaret Regan will give a slide lecture about her newest book, Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire, now out in paperback. Focusing on Arizona, the book looks at the fate of undocumented immigrants who are arrested long after they’ve established lives and families in […]
Sunday Service October 9: Justice that Heals The second principle of Unitarian Universalism advocates “Justice, equity and compassion in human relations.” How can all three elements work together to ensure right relations among us? When does anger serve a helpful function, indicating a problem in our connections? How do we respond to that symptom […]
Sunday Service October 2 : Love Meets the Dragon What do dragons, cyclones, and tides have in common, and what do they have to do with our monthly worship theme of healing? Sermon: Rev. Linda Lawrence Click Here to Listen
Sunday Service September 25: Personal and Spiritual Covenant On reflection I can see my career as the result of searching for fulfillment of a Covenant given to me at a very young age. Covenant has legal, religious, spiritual, personal and cultural dimensions depending on use. I will share with you how I view my life […]
Sunday Service September 18: Who Will Inherit from Abraham? Abraham worried about who would inherit from him, and who would fulfill God’s blessing. Might it be us? Bio: Rabbi Helen Cohn is the spiritual leader of Congregation M’kor Hayim, a liberal congregation formed in Tucson in 2008. She was ordained in 1994 at Hebrew Union […]
Sunday Service September 11: We Owe It to Ourselves The Unitarian Universalist website, when it speaks of covenant, asks “What Do We Promise One Another?” and considers “What calls human beings into deeper relationships with the holy, one another, and all beings?” But what about our relationship with ourselves? Are we aware of what we […]
Sunday Service September 4: Coming of Age We will honor one of our youth today in a special “Coming of Age” ceremony as he turns eighteen. We will explore these questions: “What do we promise our children? How are we, as a congregation, coming of age?” Sermon: Christopher Groberg Click Here to […]
Sunday Service August 28: Happiness III In this 3rd installment of sermons about happiness, we will find out if there is a correlation between happiness and music or happiness and pets. We will hear a little about the business of happiness. Last but not least, we will attempt to answer the question, “Why is happiness […]
Sunday Service August 21 : The Kindness of Karma Buddha’s teachings on karma explain the relationship between our mind, our actions and our experiences. Karma is like gravity; it’s not personal, it’s not singling us out. If we trip and fall, we don’t get angry with gravity. Understanding how karma functions puts us in control […]
Sunday Service August 14 : Love Your Enemies; Ancient Challenge and Spiritual Practice for Today Sermon: Rev. Tina Squire Facilitator: Wallace Hoggatt Click Here to Listen
Sunday Service August 7 The Political IS Religious or What I Did on My Summer Vacation Vacation is a time to “get away from it all” – right? That’s not as easy as it sounds, and maybe it’s not even as desirable as it seems. Rev. Linda tells how Unitarian Universalist values colored her time […]
Sunday Service July 31 How do Unitarian Universalists want to be perceived? What is it Unitarian Universalists do? We will learn what Rev. Galen Guengerich wishes were the 10 things everyone knew about Unitarian Universalists. We will hear about the 5 ways Unitarian Universalists live the faith. Learn a Buddhist approach for starting or beginning […]
Sunday Service July 3 The Mountain of Tolerance: A Community’s Experience of Dirty Dishes Guest speaker Emrys Staton will share some experiences of living in intentional communities, and how those skills translate into our wider experience of creating strong communities. Emrys Staton is currently serving as the ministerial intern at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation […]
Sunday Service June 19 Not Necessarily Your Father’s Day When President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed the first official nationwide Father’s Day in 1966, he said that in American homes “we look to the fathers to provide the strength and stability which characterizes the successful family.” The ideal father we’re supposed to honor on Father’s […]
Sky Island UU Church Sunday Service May 22 Justice and the Future Can we achieve justice for the Earth and its current inhabitants? And can we extend justice 7 generations into the future? Is justice a concept that only applies to human life? The future of life on Earth depends an awful lot on what […]
Sky Island UU Church Sunday Service May 15 Treasuring the Past, Looking to the Future What is your vision for your own life, for your children/grandchildren/great grandchildren, for our congregation, for Unitarian Universalism, for the earth? We’ll explore these questions during Rev. Linda’s last sermon of this church year (she’ll be back in the pulpit […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service May 8 Poor Archy’s Almanack One hundred years ago this spring, journalist and poet Don Marquis created Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the alley cat to fill space in a newspaper column. Over the next twenty years, Archy and Mehitabel provided America with clear-eyed yet charitable observations about the world […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service May 1 Flower Service The service will be led by Rev. Linda Lawrence and church member Terry Zapotocky. The service is multi-generational so the children will participate in the service, and there will be no separate children’s religious education. We will learn about the origin and meaning of the […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service April 24 Conversos or Crypto-Jews The title refers to early Spanish settlers to the American southwest, many to northeastern New Mexico. Ferdinand and Isabella gave the Jews the option of conversion to Christianity or exile. Suspicion lingered, however, that many among the converts continued to practice “the Dead Law of Moses” […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service April 10 The Spirit of Islam Through the Tacheria School of Spiritual Direction, our minister recently spent a day with Imam Jamal Rahman as he spoke about Islamic Sufi spiritual insights and practices. With pleasure and with the imam’s blessing, Rev. Linda will share some of those teachings to foster […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service March 27 As We Give We Gain – A Multi-Generational Service Our March 27th service will celebrate some of the themes of Spring: Easter, renewal and the rebirth of the human spirit through acts of altruism and kindness. Come, celebrate with us, all the wonderful volunteers in our midst, those who keep our congregation […]
Sky Island UU Sunday Service April 3 Spirit: Relating to It All Our congregation’s own Jerry Fitzmaurice writes: I have always been interested in how people of different cultures and religions viewed life. So I welcome the opportunity to share some of what I have learned. I will try not to stray into my own beliefs, […]
