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office@uuutica.orgUU musician Jim Scott wrote a song that starts with the line, “May your life be as a song, resounding with the dawn to sing awake the light.” How in today’s world can we greet the day with this kind of courage? It is our … read more.
The Rev. Dr. Richard S. Gilbert retired in 2005 after serving 44 years in the Unitarian Universalist ministry in Cleveland, Ohio, Golden Colorado, Ithaca, New York, and for 32 years at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York. He received an M.Div. from St. Lawrence University Theological School, … read more.
Carol and her friend, Valerie, spent a week last spring traveling the U.S. Civil Rights Trail which was officially launched by the National Park System in 2018. They started in Atlanta, the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. and ended in Memphis, the place … read more.
Prayer is not universally practiced by Unitarian Universalists, but many of us are co-creating practices that help us go deeper, stay still, or move forward when we don’t necessarily know what’s next. A good practice for today’s world.
The first of the two-step process called a “Congregational Start-Up” takes place on Sept 24 with help from UUA staff person Rev Evin Carvil Ziemer. Sharing and integrating congregational priorities and dreams is our desired community outcome. This service will be Rev Karen’s reflections from … read more.
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. … read more.
The ritual of bringing water from places we have been and loved is one that binds us together, reminding us we belong not only to each other, but to Earth. The power to draw one another into the circle, or define that circle close in … read more.
Our Labor Day service features Eric Cortés-Kopp, who is a membership servicing representative at UFCW Local 1. As a student, he was one of the key organizers of the Hamilton College Admissions campaign.
According to Eric, by August 2021 Hamilton College tour guides were about to go on strike. … read more.
“Interconnections” is almost a buzz word nowadays. We hear it in relation to justice, natural/environmental and human-designed systems, humanity itself and much more. Interconnection is the seventh of our Unitarian Universalist principles. This service will help us bring texture and meaning to the word as … read more.
The necessity of fallow time and renewal is built into so much of the natural world. Building that wisdom into our lives seems only right. If our lives are ordinarily driven by pressures to accomplish goals or fill space, what in our faith tradition can … read more.
