Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
YOUNG AND OLD: PLEASE COME IN COSTUME
Each of us has some, or many, personal connections to conflicts going on around the world and here at home. Not the least of these connections: our common humanity. This week between Yom Kippur and Native American Day, Rupert will share reflections on living within cultural, geographic, and moral intersections.
Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. This is a quiet service held on the first Monday of each month. Our UU adaptation of the Taizé tradition includes contemplative chants, poetry, meditation, and candle lighting. This month’s theme: The Phases of the Moon.
Rev. Paul Beckel and Tom Nicholas have asked an assortment of BUFsters, “How has love changed you?” We’ll assemble their responses into a multi-hued mosaic of life, loss, and awakening.
Hypocrisy is so, so alluring. And it’s even more tempting to point it out in others. As we advocate for justice, there is a place for righteousness. But that’s different from self-righteousness.
Each of us has come to understand how to live ethically via our own experience. We’re inspired on what to do, and what not to do—what matters, and what doesn’t—as we observe the consequences our own behaviors, and that of others.
From its inception in the 1800s, Unitarian groups have had difficulty articulating commonly held beliefs/principles/values…. We’re adamantly pluralistic, creedless, tolerant. Does that mean accepting bigotry and exclusion?
Each year we gather to celebrate the gift of water and to acknowledge how—in its flow within us and throughout the world—it connects every being. Today I invite you to bring a bit of water; each of us will pour a bit into our common bowl and share a word about its meaning to us … Continue reading Water Communion
