Finding Family (text & audio)

Pattiann Rogers’ poem that I read earlier came to mind a little over a week ago when I got some good one-on-one time with Lucille, newly born daughter of our daughter and son-in-law, Anna and Langdon, and our second grandchild. Langdon was off to work, and Anna was...

Rites of Passage

The 9th grade youth presented their credos or belief statements on life’s big questions: thoughts on God, existence, why bad things happen, ethics, death, after-life and possibly more. Learning with their mentors and teachers, supported by their parents, and...

Reimagining Jesus (text & audio)

INTRODUCTION Over the last couple of months about 20 of us here have been making our way through the gospels of the New Testament with the Rev. John Buehrens, former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association and a biblical scholar, as our guide. His book,...

What We Do, Who We Are (text & audio)

Reading “Working Together,” by David Whyte Sermon I have spoken in the past about the ways we are called to challenge one another to spiritual growth, and this is one marker of our status as a religious community. So, too, it is our work to support one another in...

Weaving Ourselves Into the Web, April 7 (text & audio)

So, it’s a spider we’ve come to talk about today, right? Well, yes, and a bit more.  It is now a little more than 60 years since Charlotte’s Web was published, but instead of looking ahead to retirement  E.B. White’s magnum opus seems to be finding new life with each...