Across religious traditions, mystical paths often ask: what does it mean to be fully present, engaged, and awake in the world? How do we practice that work of showing up to ourselves, each other, and as embodied beings in the world?
Across religious traditions, mystical paths often ask: what does it mean to be fully present, engaged, and awake in the world? How do we practice that work of showing up to ourselves, each other, and as embodied beings in the world?
Part of the point of singing the blues is to move through your blues. At this time of year when you may not be feeling so merry and bright, we'll acknowledge and hold that reality with grace, humor, honesty, and blues.
Part of the point of singing the blues is to move through your blues. At this time of year when you may not be feeling so merry and bright, we'll acknowledge and hold that reality with grace, humor, honesty, and blues.
Celebrate the light returning on the darkest day of the year, with a bonfire ritual, making ornaments, and eating a hearty winter stew. Bring a salad, bread, drink, or dessert to share. We'll eat dinner together after welcoming activities and the ritual.
Our inherent worth and dignity means that every one of us has gifts to share with the world! At this all-church service, we'll unwrap (literally) Christmas stories and carols, present by present.
Through retelling the story of Christmas, we'll consider our encounters with those on the margins of our culture, and how we can embrace everyone's inherent worth and dignity.
New friends and old are warmly invited to gather for our annual Christmas Eve candle-lighting service.
In this last service of 2024, we let the old year go, leaving behind all that we don't wish to carry forward with us. In song and story, and in a burning bowls ritual, we let go of what no longer serves us.
In this last service of 2024, we let the old year go, leaving behind all that we don't wish to carry forward with us. In song and story, and in a burning bowls ritual, we let go of what no longer serves us.
The old year ends and a new one begins: what will you carry forward into it? Standing on the threshold between past and future, it is a moment of remembering, of hoping, and of choosing.
The old year ends and a new one begins: what will you carry forward into it? Standing on the threshold between past and future, it is a moment of remembering, of hoping, and of choosing.
What do you do next with your life after you have come face to face with the tangled, unavoidable reality of loss? The oldest story ever written down is our guide through.
What do you do next with your life after you have come face to face with the tangled, unavoidable reality of loss? The oldest story ever written down is our guide through.
Let us jump OFF the resolution urge that comes in January! Join Rev. Ruth Rinehart as she explores resisting the white supremacy culture of our heritage, including Puritans and Calvinism, with their orientation towards productivity and shame. January brings a new world that we now inhabit; where do we go from here?
Let us jump OFF the resolution urge that comes in January! Join Rev. Ruth Rinehart as she explores resisting the white supremacy culture of our heritage, including Puritans and Calvinism, with their orientation towards productivity and shame. January brings a new world that we now inhabit; where do we go from here?
As we enter a new season as a nation, the story that we tell ourselves about who we are shapes who we will become as a country. The possible futures ahead of us rest on conflicting notions of what counts as reasonable, fair, and normal.
As we enter a new season as a nation, the story that we tell ourselves about who we are shapes who we will become as a country. The possible futures ahead of us rest on conflicting notions of what counts as reasonable, fair, and normal.
Laughter heals. We don't laugh away our pain to numb ourselves to reality, but we embrace the silly, the absurd, and delightful as equally a part of life.
Laughter heals. We don't laugh away our pain to numb ourselves to reality, but we embrace the silly, the absurd, and delightful as equally a part of life.
Brene Brown says that fitting in happens when you change yourself to be in the community, but belonging happens when you can be your most authentic self in community. How can we as individuals and a community practice belonging here and to/with each other?
Rev. Kelly Dignan will look back on the last decade of UU Church of Boulder’s history and reflect on the continuity and flourishing that comes when connections are made slowly.
Rev. Kelly Dignan will look back on the last decade of UU Church of Boulder’s history and reflect on the continuity and flourishing that comes when connections are made slowly.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis McGee, ordained a Unitarian in 1949, was one of the first Black UU religious leaders. Preaching at the intersection of justice, race, and humanism, his story suggest that to be a "free religion for all souls," means facing the complexity of our own history and how complicity in injustice gets disguised by "reasonable concerns."
