On Christmas Day, many households around us will have floors littered with wrapping paper. Of all the gifts we might give and receive, though, we each hold something that the … Continue reading An Infinite Unwrapping
Share this post:We celebrate Christmas Eve as a community with a single service this year, continuing the tradition of our Tableaux and holiday music as we consider together why the birth and … Continue reading Love Came Down at Christmas
Share this post:Annual service featuring music and its stories. See you in-person Sunday morning at our new time of 10:15 am. Services will also be live-streamed on Facebook or on YouTube. Guest In Pulpit: Mike Carney Check out … Continue reading Music Sunday 2022
Share this post:As a national association of congregations, we are exploring what it might mean to revise a portion of our bylaws that defines our shared principles and sources. In other words, … Continue reading Values Beyond Words
Share this post:It feels good to be certain about something. Our brains love certainty. When we’re sure about something, we don’t have to think about it or figure it out. We just … Continue reading Surrendering to Mystery
Share this post:Our congregation is evolving. We are learning new ways of being with one another and with the world around us, but what exactly is changing? If we recognize that we … Continue reading Building a New Way
Share this post:The practice of breaking bread together as a spiritual community is an ancient tradition. It has meant many things to different people throughout time. What does it mean for us, as Unitarian Universalists gathering in physical and virtual spaces in our particular and peculiar time? Are we using an old recipe for the bread we break together? Or are we willing to consider what ingredients will yield the sort of Beloved Community for which we yearn?
Share this post:What is the change process for healing? How do we begin to heal the wounds of war and violence in our nation’s Veterans and their caregivers? What is moral injury and how does it impact our veterans? Join UUCC’s community minister, Rev. Rina Shere, a mental health chaplain at the Cleveland VA Medical Center, to ponder the multi-faceted journey of moving from moral injury to moral repair.
Share this post:We begin exploring the theme of Change with a recognition that growing in new ways means grieving a few things that no longer serve us.
Share this post:This month, we’ve been exploring a lot of ways that we react to make our anxiety go away. We create conflict, we triangulate, we over-function. One of the most common things we do when we feel afraid, though, is just run away. Sometimes it’s a good idea to take a step back, but if we want to live into our life-affirming values more fully, we’ll probably have to face some things that make us anxious. When is distancing ourselves a healthy response, and when do we need to muster the courage to face our fears head on?
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