This month, we’re diving into the Soul Matters Theme of healing, inspired by the Hindu tradition of Diwali—the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness. As winter approaches and days get shorter, this celebration offers a wonderful perspective: healing doesn’t have to wait for the sun to shine bright; it begins … Continue reading One Lamp Is Enough
All Saints Day and the start of Día de los Muertos (Nov 1–2) converge on this Sunday. Both traditions treat remembering the dead by name as an act that heals the living. We will honor those who continue to live in our hearts and lives with an altar of memory. Bring a picture(s) of those … Continue reading Marigolds and Memory
On the Sunday closest to Halloween/Samhain, we honor the time when the boundary between the living and the dead grows porous—giving us honest ground to consider the courage it takes to face mortality, grief, and fear directly rather than costume them away. We will experience a Halloween parade for UNICEF where our Change for Change … Continue reading Of Shadows Light and Love
We are never quite alone; the ghosts of our past walk with us, from our own regrets toour ancestors’ legacies to the long history of racism and sexism that lingers in our world. Some ghosts offer wisdom, lighting the way toward a more just and loving life. Othersfeed on our fear and complacency, and the … Continue reading Hungry Ghosts
This weekend is National Coming Out Day. A natural, unforced fit for courage — not just LGBTQ+ visibility, but the broader human courage of dropping a mask in a room that might not be safe. Contemporary edge: doing this in 2026, with LGBTQ+ rights actively contested in statehouses and courts — this isn’t nostalgia, it’s … Continue reading Seeing is Being
This is World Communion Sunday in the wider Christian calendar, and it falls right as Simchat Torah closes (the Jewish holiday ends at nightfall on Oct. 4, when the Torah scroll is rewound and reading begins again at Genesis 1). This creates a rich double resonance: what courage does it take to sit down across … Continue reading Rolling Over and Remaining Present
Our Religious Exploration program begins its new year today, and rather than treat this as a children’s milestone alone, we know that this is a congregation-wide happening.. This Homecoming service asks a question with no age limit on who gets to answer it: what do we owe to people we’ll see grow up and those … Continue reading What We Hand Down to Those We Raise Up
As Yom Kippur invites reflection on accountability, forgiveness, and renewal, we gather to consider the ledgers we keep, both consciously and unconsciously. What debts, regrets, disappointments, or old stories have we been carrying forward? Which accounts deserve to be settled, and which were never meant to be balanced in the first place? In a world … Continue reading Limited Ledgers and Living Accounts
Join members and friends for our opening ingathering service and Water Ceremony. This Summer was not just about vacations and rest; it was also a summer of climate anxiety, news fatigue, AI disruption at work, and election-year exhaustion. We mingle the waters from our summer sojourns as a communal admission that no one’s summer was untouched by the wider world, … Continue reading The Streams We Carry and Rivers We Ride
Join members of the UUCW Garden-On Team for a morning of garden up-keep. Come prepared to get dirty! Bring any gardening tools you have.
