Annual Water Communion is where the community bring a small amount of water from a place that is special to them. During the appointed time in the service, people one by one pour their water together into a large bowl. As the water is added, the person who brought it tells why this water is special to them. The combined water is symbolic of our shared faith coming from many different sources. It is often then blessed by the congregation, and sometimes is later boiled and used

The illusion of powerlessness stems from our belief that we can't choose. Owning our choices and the real situations and circumstances that boundary those choices is an act of agency. Well practiced, this agency deepens into a lived experience of liberation - sowing the seeds for our collective liberation. "We are not free from triggers, but we can develop the skills to recognize those triggers when they happen." - Eric Hepburn Full Podcast Transcript Eric Hepburn: Welcome to

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? Journey to Wholeness — Stephen Jenkinson, Embodied Practice, and Why Wholeness Is Not a Hierarchy "Your body is neither an inconvenience nor tertiary to your existence." This episode is an invitation into embodied practice — and a correction to something the summer serm

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

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

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