Blessing of the Animals
Celebrate the animals in your life! Bring your sociable, able-to-travel pets and critters to this outdoor service of appreciation for our non-human companions. It’s going to be a zoo!
Speaker: Rev. David Schwartz
Promise Makers, Promise Breakers, Promise Re-Makers
What does it mean to be united not by a specific list of things we all believe the same way, but to be united by the commitments that we make to each other: our covenants?
Why We Need Critical Race Theory
We have the choice to face the reality of race in this country and the color line which divides us — or to bury our heads in the sand. How do we face the reality of our past and present without guilt and shame?
See No Stranger
Part memoire, part call to courageous love, Valarie Kaur’s “See No Stranger” — our congregational read this fall — invites us to see each other as parts of ourselves we do not yet know. What does it mean to take that simple, demanding invitation seriously?
How to Shop for a Church
When you’re looking for a church community, what are the things to pay attention to that suggest health, vitality, and welcome? Bring a bit of water from home or summer travels to share in our annual water ritual.
Services at 9:00am in-person only, and 11:00am in-person … read more.
Wellspring Service
10:00am in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
From September-June, our 9:00 Wellspring service is held in the Sky Room: it’s a less-formal, singing-heavy complement to our big 11:00am service. This Sunday, try it out as we hold a Wellspring service!
Sunday Services 6/5: Flower Sunday
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
Celebrate the beginning of summer in this annual beloved Unitarian service. Norbert Čapek, founder of the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, saw the need to unite the diverse congregants of his church from … read more.
Sunday Services 5/22: Trail Mapping
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
Emerging from pandemic is like at last coming out a canyon and up over a ridgeline to see the size and scale of the path country ahead of us. Where are we … read more.
Sunday Services 5/8: To Pay Attention
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
Among the ten thousand things that claim your time and energy and outrage, we pause to slow down: to notice the vast and interconnected web of beauty in which we live our … read more.
Sunday Service 5/1: Nurturing a Beautiful Soul
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
What makes for a beautiful soul? How do we cultivate our lives and our living so that our own spirit might grow in beauty?
Preacher: Lead Minister Rev. David Schwartz
Music By: Deborah Berioli and … read more.
Transform Your Pain or Transmit It
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
In our liberal religious tradition, the invitation of Easter isn’t to some inevitable happiness ahead of us. It is instead the demanding, difficult, and deeply liberating invitation to face and weave … read more.
A Service of Lament
A spare, intimate service that faces plainly and without deflection the stark reality of suffering and the experience of hopelessness, ending in silence and darkness.
This service will be held in person only.
Which Parade will You Join?
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
The status quo says what matters is what you do, where you come from, who you love, how healthy you are, how much you make. What matters is how old you … read more.
A Service of Installation for the Rev. David Schwartz
4:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
A big, joyful service to formally recognize Rev. David as our new settled minister, and to look ahead to where our shared journey leads. Reception to follow.
Music By: Deborah Berioli, Ben Thompson, and members of UUCB.
A Map of the Journey in Progress
9:00 in person only; 11:00 in person and online at our YouTube channel here.
We welcome back our previous settled minister, Rev. Kelly Dignan to join Rev. David in telling the story of where we’ve come from as a community through years and generations.
Music By: Deborah … read more.
A Community of Gratitude
The practice of gratitude is essential for a well-lived life. How do we enter into this essential work as individuals and as a community?
Music By: Deborah Berlioli, Ben Thompson, and the Chancel Cats
Worship Leader: Laurel Seppala-Etra
Chalice Lighting: Jennifer Skiendzielewski
The 9:00am service is in person only, the … read more.
Living the Questions
In the first half of the service, post your theological questions, questions about Unitarian Universalism, and questions about David — and Rev. David will answer them in the sermon, on the spot!
Music By: Deborah Berlioli and Ben Thompson
Worship Leader: Tom Denkenwolf
Chalice Lighting: Kay Doggett
The 9:00am service is in … read more.
Emerging Strong Together
As we emerge from pandemic — slowly, haltingly, uncertainly — we gather together to share our strength and hope. On this Celebration Sunday launching our pledge drive, we look joyfully ahead.
Music By: Deborah Berlioli, Ben Thompson, and the Chanel Cats
Worship Leader: Diana Maiden
Chalice Lighting: Jim Rowe and Whitney … read more.
Welcome the Stranger
How to make a joyous space for the newcomer walking through our doors? We’ll also welcome our three new affiliated community ministers: Rev. Kristen Psaki, Rev. Jeremy Nickel, and Rev. Teri Schwartz.
Music By: Deborah Berioli
Worship Leader: Ray Knudson
Chalice Lighting: Tom Zanoni
Widening the Circle: Deep Listening
In our theologically plural church, our spiritual practice doesn’t merely tolerate different beliefs — we actively seek to be curious and listen deeply across lines of difference.
Music By: Deborah Berioli
Worship Leader: Sharon Belew
Chalice Lighting: John Cuddington
This service will be held on Zoom.
To join us virtually, … read more.