Some may be familiar with "body positivity", but fewer have encountered the history of the fat liberation movement. Rooted in the belief that people of all body sizes deserve dignity, respect, and equitable treatment, fat liberation challenges the stigma, discrimination, and systemic barriers faced by fat people in healthcare, employment, public spaces, transportation, clothing access, media representation, and everyday life. In this service, we will explore the history and p

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

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

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

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.

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 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

GEORGETOWN, Texas — Families across Georgetown ISD are receiving meaningful financial relief thanks to a generous donation from the San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, whose members recently stepped up to help pay off outstanding student meal balances. The contribution, led by the Fellowship’s Social Justice Team, reflects a shared commitment to supporting students and ensuring every child has access to meals without added stress or stigma. “We believe that every p

Anyone interested in digging in the dirt in support of wildlife is invited to join the Habitat team on Thursday, March 19th at 11:00 on the deck at UU. (inside if it rains) Bring your lunch and we will visit and make plans for the coming spring months. You don’t have to know anything about native Texas plants or gardening. We just work together and have a good time! Contact Billye Adams at habitat@sangabrieluu.org

Join us for an all-ages Social Justice Sunday where art and social justice come together to explore how artists, activists, and everyday people use humor, images, and handmade creations to call out injustice and inspire change. Inspired by the Guerrilla Girls, zine-making, and other creative practices, this interactive service invites us to complain about what we care about in a creative and unique way.

Grief is an integral part of life that requires our attention if we want to be fully available for life. In our culture, however, we have forgotten how to share our grief with one another. When we add to our personal losses the experience of economic instability, ecological degradation, the extinction of species, individual and collective health crises, and the unrest and turmoil within human societies, the burden of grief that we are carrying as individuals can begin to feel

For International Women's Day, we'll continue our exploration of the work of Simone Weil - moving from her work on attention as spiritual practice, to her social justice oriented work on the necessity of duties preceding rights. "Beloved community is not where everyone gets their rights. It is where everyone has taken up their obligations." The second service in a three-part Simone Weil series honoring Women's History Month — delivered on International Women's Day — centers W

"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." The first service in a three-part Simone Weil series honoring Women's History Month centers Weil's teaching, from Gravity and Grace, that we cure our faults by attention and not by will — and that inner supplication is the only reasonable way. The sermon was delivered on a hard morning: the Great World House holds both the memorial of Rev. Meg Barnhouse — a matriarch of Unitarian Universalism, honored with the story of how elephants c