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Free Community Film Screening: Your Fat Friend
Free Community Film Screening: Your Fat Friend Hosted by the SGUUF Social Justice Team Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Sanctuary), 1322 E University Ave, Georgetown, TX 78626 Admission: Free and open to the public The San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Social Justice Team invites the Georgetown community to a free screening of the powerful documentary film Your Fat Friend. Directed
2 days ago1 min read


Journey to Wholeness by Eric Hepburn
We're experimenting with a new earth-centered Wednesday night program this year. Why? What are we doing on Wednesday nights that's different from what we do on Sundays? Why is it different? Why does it matter?
3 days ago1 min read


A Blessing For What We Carry by Candice White
This Sunday’s All-Ages Service will include a blessing for the new year ahead, inspired by the picture book Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave. All of us are entering something, carrying something, and needing courage, curiosity, kindness, and community. Together, we will bless what we carry and what we hope to offer one another.
Aug 41 min read


The Courage to Confess: Finding Healing Through Redemption by Lou Snead
Unitarian Universalists are often comfortable talking about justice, compassion, and personal growth—but what about sin, confession, and redemption? These words can make many of us uneasy, yet they point toward an enduring spiritual question: How do we repair the relationships that matter most when they have been damaged by our words or actions? At this service Lou Snead will explore how honest self-examination, confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation can become powerful
Jul 281 min read


Spanish/Bilingual Book Drive for GISD - August 2nd-31st
The Social Justice team is holding a Spanish language book drive for Georgetown ISD during the month of August. While being interviewed by KVUE back in March, I asked a GISD administrator how the district has been impacted by ICE presence in Williamson County. The impact has been steady, with less parental interaction at school hosted activities due to fear of deportation. GISD has had to slow down on advertising events, like open house, field day, meet the teacher night, etc
Jul 282 min read


Sacred Currents: Earth-Centered Gatherings
San Gabriel is the name of this Fellowship, the river that runs through Georgetown, and the river valley many of us call home. This valley is also the ancestral homeland of the Tonkawa people, who called it Takachue Pouetsu: "the land of good water." Sacred Currents, our reimagined earth-centered gatherings, takes its name in honor of that living heritage, strengthening our connection to the river, the land, one another, and ourselves. Join us on Wednesday evenings beginning
Jul 215 min read


Be Social Change by Eric Hepburn
Our series developmentally exploring Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem arrives at spirit — not a fourth faculty, but the awareness that knows what the moment asks. The Guides and Weavers help the whole ecosystem see itself — and help each of us move freely among all the roles. "It is possible to be free. Not free from anger, or shame, or fear — but free among them: transparent to the light, a window the light shines through." The final service in the four-part series readi
Jul 2110 min read


Think Social Change: How the Enneagram's Thinking Triad Metabolizes Fear as Visionaries, Builders, and Storytellers by Eric Hepburn
The third sermon in The Pulpiteer's four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist Association common read — through a developmental lens drawn from the Enneagram's centers: gut, heart, head, and spirit. This week: the thinking triad, whose underlying feeling is fear, and the three ecosystem roles where head energy finds its work — Visionaries, Builders, and Storytellers. Along the way: Frank
Jul 1515 min read


Feel Social Change: Caregivers, Healers, and the Enneagram's Feeling Triad by Eric Hepburn
July 12, 2026 - The second sermon in a four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist Association common read — through a developmental lens drawn from the Enneagram's centers: gut, heart, and head; plus spirit. This episode turns from gut to heart: the feeling triad, whose underlying struggle is shame, and the two ecosystem roles where heart energy finds its work — Caregivers and Healers. Al
Jul 818 min read


Do Social Change: Deepa Iyer's Social Change Ecosystem and the Enneagram's Instinctive Triad by Eric Hepburn
July 6, 2026 - We begin a four-part series exploring Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the Unitarian Universalist Association's common read — through a developmental lens drawn from the Enneagram's three centers: gut, heart, and head, plus spirit. This episode explores the instinctive (gut/body) triad: the people whose call to justice arrives as anger, and the three ecosystem roles where that energy finds its work.
Jun 3018 min read


Join The Resistance by Lou Snead & Chuck Collins
In our Social Justice Sunday service on June 28, Chuck Collins and Lou Snead will invite our congregation to consider the many ways we can resist feeling powerless to stand up against the forces of political authoritarianism, religious self-righteousness, and racial superiority that seem to be dominating our nation’s political landscape today. In the spirit of the resistance expressed in the hippie and black power movements of the 1960s and 1970s our congregation is encoura
Jun 231 min read


UUA General Assembly at 9:30am
Join us at 9:30 am to participate in a streaming of the Music and Worship Service from the Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly for this year. Begin Sunday by lifting your voice in song with fellow Unitarian Universalists. This joyful gathering invites all participants to join in beloved hymns and spirited music that connect us across distance and difference. No experience is needed, just bring your voice and your heart. Sunday morning worship is the heart of
Jun 151 min read


Looking for Volunteer Painters on Saturday, June 20
No, not the artistic kind. The Facilities team is asking for volunteers to help paint the sides and the back of the Fellowship House from 8 am to 11 am on this Saturday June 20. The house was power-washed on the congregational workday and now needs a coat of paint on three exterior sides. The paint, brushes and rollers will be provided and we hope to have enough volunteers helping that Saturday to finish the job in 3 hours with an early start to beat the heat. Wear your
Jun 91 min read


Lovely Day — Reclaiming Faith as a Present-Tense Practice, with Bill Withers and Ross Gay by Eric Hepburn
As Bill Withers sings, "Then I look at you, and the world's alright with me. Just one look at you, and I know it's gonna be: A lovely day!" Think of this as a love letter to the congregation and to all those who gather in joy and in sorrow to work toward the beloved community that signals a lovely day for all. We will have our Annual Congregational Meeting after service.
Jun 918 min read


Flourishing Together: Flower Communion, Norbert Čapek, and Robin Wall Kimmerer on Mutual Flourishing & Flower Communion by Eric Hepburn
The Great World House segment recounts the origin: in 1923, Norbert Čapek, founder of the modern Unitarian church in Czechoslovakia, asked each congregant to bring a single flower. Placed together in one vase, blessed, and exchanged — each person carrying home a flower someone else brought — the ceremony offered his largely ex-Catholic congregation a communion rooted not in bread and wine but in nature herself: receive the gift, cherish the gift, pass the gift on. The Voice o
Jun 28 min read


Simplicity, Complexity, Simplicity Again: Values, Calling, and the Crucible of the Hot Mess by Eric Hepburn
"For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have." - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. What is the simplicity on the far shore of complexity? Why brave the treacherous seas of complexity to get there?
May 2613 min read


From Covenant To Courage: Parker Palmer, James Luther Adams, and the Availability of Beloved Community by Eric Hepburn
Our covenants are promises that are the foundation of our congregational polity - they make us, practitioners without creed or canon, a bound community. But why? What do these promises make possible? Combining the work of Parker Palmer and James Luther Adams, we'll put forward a claim about our community's purpose and process. Full Podcast Transcript Lightly edited for readability: transcription errors corrected, filler words reduced, punctuation repaired. Bracketed items are
May 1910 min read


Singing For Our Lives by Rev. Erin Walter
From the streets of Minneapolis to the ICE detention centers in Texas, music is playing a powerful role in resistance to authoritarianism. This Sunday, join Parker Woodland --led by UU Rev. Erin Walter of the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry (TXUUJM) -- for a special music-centric service. The Austin band regularly performs to support causes grounded in UU values, from abolition to democracy to LGBTQIA+ rights, and Rev. Erin and guitarist Andrew Solin will share
May 121 min read


Cultivating Wisdom Workshop Sessions by Eric Hepburn
This workshop will explore a sequence of skills to develop and deepen your living wisdom practices. Session 1: Responding to Change. You can also download the Session 1 Worksheet. Session 2: Identity. You can also download the Session 2 Worksheet. Session 3: Head, Hand, Heart. You can also download the Session 3 Worksheet. Session 4: Spirit, Presence, and Practices. You can also download the Session 4 Worksheet.
May 121 min read


Love Is... a service led by the RE Children
This Sunday our children have a lot to say about love. Join us! There will be participatory music, a picture book, and words of wisdom from our members with a low vantage point and a big, big view.
May 51 min read
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