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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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?

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

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

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.

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.

Parker Palmer's Letter, Faithful Witness, and the Launch of this year's stewardship: the theme is Learn, Love, Grow — three words that describe what SGUUF does every week and three words that describe what we're asking of ourselves as a community this year. Learn. Love. Grow. This service launched San Gabriel UU Fellowship's annual stewardship campaign, and the sermon takes its shape from Parker Palmer's letter to his granddaughter — the letter he is writing so that she can r

Join us for an all ages interactive service centered on deepening our understanding of the Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection, framework. Identify your Target, Safety and Stretch roles within and outside our organization, as we examine the ecosystem of our congregation together.

"If you love someone, set them free." - Sting How can this way of putting Love at the Center, inform how we approach Religion as modern UU's? Not just in how we serve the adults in our community, but in how and what we teach our youth? This service takes Sting's line as its heart anthem and asks what it demands of a congregation — in the religious education of children, and in the welcome of adults. The sermon argues that mainstream religious education — in Christian denomin

We will come together in song to feel the power of music and how it influences us. This Sunday Service is All Ages.