September 2024
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Respecting Nature’s Wildness: Active Hope Part 1
Around 170 years ago, our Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor Henry David Thoreau spoke about wildness. “Our village life would stagnate,” he said, “if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness […] We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic…
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The Lifelong Quest: A Celebration of Unitarian Universalist Religious Education
A sermon dialogue between Rev. Anthony Makar and Director of Religious Education Meghan Ross 1. Personal Stories of Growing Up Director of Religious Education Meghan Ross Today, we begin with stories of growing up. As some of you may know, I grew up right here at West Shore. Somewhere, in a jumbled box of family…
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Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high There’s a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true Someday I’ll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles…
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Someone asks, “What is Unitarian Universalism?” “What do Unitarian Universalists believe?” What do you do? People are going to ask. It’s inevitable, in this world in which folks are generally not familiar with what those two very long words strung together, “Unitarian Universalism,” mean. I think elevator speeches (brief statements between 30 seconds and 2…
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