The following report was submitted by UCM GA Delegate, Stephen Finner:
Session 2 opened Thursday afternoon with an excellent lecture by Harvard Divinity School Professor Dan McKanan who discussed the tension between freedom of belief and responsibility for collective action and response. Professor McKanan was articulate … read more.
A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth and strengthen what is whole in one another. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Langston Hughes once wrote: “To worship/At the altar of Beauty/Is a pleasure divine.” In honor of Pride Month, join us for an interactive affirming service as we create an “Altar of Beauty.”- Verdis LeVar Robinson
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Music has a unique ability to simultaneously give voice both to our pain and to our hope, offering us solace, inspiration and joy. Join us for a music service designed for these challenging and uncertain times.
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This unfolding, changing life draws us towards beauty. How might we stay connected to the beauty that calls us forward in our process of becoming? Come to this service to join in celebrating graduating high school senior Sam Dean, who will be participating in our … read more.
Along the way, many of us take in harmful messages about our bodies. Can we learn to embrace the beauty of each and every body, including our own? During this Sunday’s service, we also welcome the newest members of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier.- Rev. … read more.
The naturalist John Muir has written, “Everyone needs beauty as well as bread…” How do we nurture beauty in our lives so that we might nourish our spirits?
On this Earth Day service, when we find ourselves deep in environmental crises of many kinds, we might ask, yet again, what can we do? Perhaps we might consider, instead, how we could be with nature, for nature, of nature. Join our guest, Maeve McBride, … read more.
The springtime holy days of Passover and Easter remind us of the power of freedom and liberation. What in you yearns to be free? How do we awaken the liberation that we all seek?
Our full presence can awaken us to the abundance of what is here, now – the simple joys and the complex heartbreak. How can we cultivate a full presence and appreciation and gratitude in our wakefulness?
