On June 14, please join us for our Religious Exploration Sunday Service at 10am. This is an all church service where we honor our teachers and our graduates. Following the service there will be an opportunity to visit the ART SHOW and the CHURCH PICNIC.
On this Heritage Sunday, as the congregation gathers for its annual meeting, we honor the enduring legacy of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist thought — a tradition that has always held reason and compassion at its center. In a time of political chaos and global uncertainty, we remember that our faith was born from both … Continue reading A Faith for Unsettled Times
In a world that prizes certainty and control, we pause and honor the sacred unknown and the spiritual practice of letting go—of setting down our relentless curiosity long enough to feel the wonder that holds us. We’ll consider how mystery softens our hearts, deepens our compassion, and opens us to beauty beyond explanation. Drawing on voices from science, mysticism, … Continue reading Mystery Matters
In a world often ruled by anxiety and judgment, this service invites us to explore curiosity as a spiritual antidote. Through reflection, music, and words shared, we’ll consider how curiosity opens the heart—transforming fear into wonder and criticism into compassion. Together, we’ll practice seeing the world not as something to control or evaluate, but as … Continue reading Curing with Curiosity
This Sunday, join Rev. Aaron Payson, Religious Exploration Director Robin Mitzcavitch, members of the 2026 Coming of Age Program, and their Mentors as we congratulate them on completing their program this year. We gather to honor those who have exemplified mothering in our lives, in all the forms it can take. Please CLICK HERE to … Continue reading Becoming, Belonging & Beyond
This week we will explore the tension between fear and the call to transformation through the intertwined lenses of the Biblical story of Jonah and Abraham Maslow’s concept of the “Jonah Complex.” Jonah’s flight from divine purpose mirrors the human tendency to shrink from our highest potential—the fear of greatness, creativity, and responsibility that Maslow … Continue reading Fear and Prophetic Possibility
This Sunday invites reflection on the sacred work of transformation — personal, cultural, and planetary. Drawing inspiration from Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity, the service explores how endings can be acts of care: tending to what must pass so that new ways of being may take root. Thus, we honor the grief and grace … Continue reading When The Ending Is Just The Beginning
In every age, the soil of the world grows hard with tyranny—systems that choke the tender shoots of truth, compassion, and imagination. Yet even in such seasons, the Spirit calls gardeners. Like Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, we are summoned to cultivate beauty and resistance in unlikely ground. Her nursery rhyme, whimsical on its surface, hides … Continue reading On Contrarian Gardening: Or, How To Sow Seeds of Revolution
This Sunday, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), we remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust and widen the circle of our remembrance to include all who were targeted by Nazi terror: Roma and Sinti people, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and countless others whose lives were deemed … Continue reading Remembering As Resistance
On this Easter Sunday morning we will gather to celebrate the season with music, reflection, Easter Eggs and more to honor the holiday. The service “On the Afterlife of Love” will explore how the story of Jesus lives on—not only in ancient texts or inherited doctrines, but in the countless ways communities across time have … Continue reading On The Afterlife of Love
