Together
In what ways and with whom can you show up with an open heart today? We continue to honor our values. That is the path of healing.
Speaker: Rev. Paul Beckel
Dinner & Singing
Dear BUF Community, Let’s gather tonight simply to be with one another in this time of grief. We’ll begin at 6 pm with a modified Community Night Dinner. Since our cooks did not anticipate a larger group, please bring something to share. At 6:45, we’ll gather in the sanctuary for about 20 minutes of singing all … Continue reading Dinner & Singing
Big-Hearted, Hurting, and Resilient
It will be good to be together as the election nears. I think these three words: big-hearted, hurting, and resilient describe our shared sense of hope and vulnerability.
Sacred Democracy
Can We All Get Along?
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.
Love Changes Us
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.
The First Stone
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.
Sources of Inspiration and Understanding
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.
A UU Paradox: Taking a Stand while Remaining Open Minded
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?
Water Communion
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