BUF’s traditional Candlelight service begins with caroling at 6:45PM followed by a meaningful service with music by both choirs, seasonal reflections, and, of course, our wonderful candle ceremony. Led by BUF minister Sunny McMillan and affiliated minister, Rev. Barbara W. ten Hove with Melanie Rieck, keyboard artist and Ben Workman-Smith, choir director.
In Octavia Butler’s prescient sci-fi novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, she creates a religion that believes “God is Change.” Whatever our beliefs about God, we certainly know that change is as hard as it is inevitable. What can we learn together about how to navigate change with grace?
Liberal religious folk are often marginalized or trivialized by more traditional religious people. Can we move through the world remembering that our religion matters, too?
