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Jun 3, 2018 Hymn Sing: Our UU Musical Identity
May 27, 2018 Rev. Dennis Reynolds Remembering Our Beloveds
May 20, 2018 That Was Then – This Is Now (audio)
May 13, 2018 Rev. Dennis Reynolds Mother’s Day: Nurturing, Empowering, and Protecting
May 6, 2018 We Are One!
Apr 29, 2018 This I Believe: For all that will be … YES! (audio)
Apr 22, 2018 The World Is in Our Hands (audio)
Apr 15, 2018 Special Challenges of a Spiritual Path While in Bodies (audio)
Apr 8, 2018 Let Us Pray (text)
Apr 1, 2018 Rev. Dennis Reynolds Ritual, Resurrection, and Reality
Mar 25, 2018 Passover’s Call to Spiritual Growth (audio)
Mar 18, 2018 Rev. Dennis Reynolds Seeking Spring’s Sweetness (audio)
Mar 11, 2018 Rev. Dennis Reynolds Sacrifice, Simplicity, and Life Choices (audio)
Mar 4, 2018 All That Is Not Given
Feb 25, 2018 The Healing Power of Creativity
Feb 18, 2018 The Wildfire Storm of Hope (audio)
Feb 11, 2018 Faithfully Creedless (audio)
Feb 4, 2018 Imbolc – Awakening to Inspiration
Jan 28, 2018 The Power of Poetry (audio)
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Next Service

Seeing The Water

The Reverend Emily Melcher February 24 - 10:00 am

(Includes portions of the planned Feb. 10 service, which was cancelled due to the snow storm)

When MLK called for clergy of all faiths to travel to Selma to participate in the civil rights marches there, UU clergy and lay people showed up and put our lives on the line for racial justice. Less than five years later, African-American UUs challenged us to support their empowerment within and beyond Unitarian Universalism, and our responses to that challenge led to heartbreak and the exodus of many African-Americans from our religious body.

Five decades later, Unitarian Universalists of Color called upon our still predominantly white congregations and Association of congregations to eradicate white supremacy culture from our systems and structures. Their call has helped us move forward, and it has also been met with significant resistance and backlash. In this final sermon in my series addressing Unitarian Unversalism’s challenges to become an anti-racist, anti-oppression, multi-cultural religion, I’ll attempt to make the water we swim in visible, and suggest the psychological work that white Unitarian Universalists need to do to be able to embrace this difficult and liberating work in our congregations and our Association of Congregations.

Worship Leader: Terra Anderson

Special Music: The UUCWI Chalice Choir

David Edwards, Choir Director; Sheila Weidendorf, Accompanist


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