We will host an online worship service on Sunday, January 17th at 11:15 am.

The Radical Imagination of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Rev. Eileen Wiviott

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid out a vision of the ‘KIN’-dom of heaven: a world where people are judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin and children of all races play joyfully and freely together. White liberal America readily embraces this vision, but what about King’s more ‘radical’ message of egalitarian justice, economic equity, and collective liberation? What is our responsibility as progressive people of faith to further King’s dream of revolutionary love and to promote the ethical and moral imperatives he lived and died for?

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, January 10th at 11:15 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, January 3rd at 11:15 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Community Renewal Society (CRS).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, December 27th at 11:15 am.

Fire Communion
On Fire Communion Sunday, we pause to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. During our virtual Fire Communion, you are invited to have a candle and matches with you, if possible. We will ground ourselves in love and acknowledge our sorrows, celebrations, anxieties, and joys from 2020. Then, we will turn ourselves toward all the possibilities of 2021.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, December 20th at 11:15 am.

A Virtual Christmas Pageant for All
We gather on-line to retell an old, familiar story in a new way. The joy of our annual Christmas Pageant continues with costumes and carols. Join us!

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, December 6th at 11:15 am.

“Still Waiting” – Karen Gustafson
As affiliates of a faith tradition that holds its Christian roots lightly, Unitarian Universalist often shine the light of reason upon the traditions of our forebears and find new meaning. 

“Advent,” Wikipedia tells us, “is a season of the liturgical year observed in most Christian denominations as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming.” 

Regardless of your views on the theology and history of Christmas, there is much we might consider about the value and meaning of expectant waiting. This year there is much that holds us in wait. “Stillness” is our monthly theme. How might this time of waiting be informed by stillness?

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, November 22nd at 11:15 am.

“Breaking Bread Together”
Bread communion is one of four traditional communion services celebrated at UCE (water, bread, fire, flower). In years past, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we’d bring our bread or other gluten free treats forward to a common table, where they’d be sliced and shared. There are bountiful metaphors around bread and what it means to break bread together. Together we will create a new kind of communion, sharing our stories and rituals of gathering abundance and nourishing transformation.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Brennan Center.

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, November 15th at 11:15 am.

“Hope, Expectation and Disappointment on the Road to Beloved Community” – Rev. Karen Gustafson
“There can be no deep  disappointment  where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Disappointment is a normal part of every day. Things just don’t always live up to our hopes or expectations. We are, nonetheless, drawn forth by longing and hope for a closer approximation of how we think life should be and what it would take to make it that way. How do our differing ways of managing our expectations and disappointments shape the various cultures we live in – our families, our social connections, our work environments or even the past and future of UCE? What do our Unitarian Universalist covenants teach us about the path forward from disappointment in our progress toward beloved community? 

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time during the summer so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Brennan Center.