WHAT TO EXPECT

October 26, 2025 Worship Service - Nurturing Gratitude (Soul Matters) with Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ On (or around) the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For the month of November, that's Nurturing Gratitude.

October 19, 2025 Worship Service - Beyond Bars, Beyond Borders by Zach Hunter ------------------------------------ Applying lessons from the prison abolition movement to unbuild walls and imagine the future of a more just and human-centered immigration system.

October 12, 2025 Worship Service - Compassionate Generosity (Soul Matters) by Pulpiteer Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ This Sunday we'll ask how our Soul Matters theme, of Cultivating Compassion, intersects with our call to Generosity, Generosity of spirit. Generosity with our time, energy, talent and treasure.

October 5, 2025 Worship Service - Legacy by Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ On the announcement of our capital campaign, we'll explore the theme of Legacy. There are so many legacies we wish to leave behind: colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, exploitation of people and land... But in order to do that, we must define a positive vision for what will take its place.

September 28, 2025 Worship Service - Unitarian, Trinitarian, None of the Above by Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ We talk a lot about being 'Unitarians'. But do we spend enough time reflecting on what that word means? Where it comes from? Who it excludes? I think its time to ask whether being 'Unitarian' is part of our future? Or, perhaps, better left behind as a legacy of our past?

September 21, 2025 Worship Service - Sacred Gastronomy by Kelly McGinty ------------------------------------ As we celebrate the Fall Equinox we recognize it as the traditional time of harvest. We focus this social justice service on the question of food and sustenance. Kelly McGinty, our Guest Speaker and long-time member of SGUUF will be sharing her thoughts on the sacredness of gastronomy.

September 14, 2025 Worship Service - How Do We Listen? by Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ Every week we practice Joys & Concerns, we practice Gratitudes & Reflections. For those of us in Connections Groups, we have a monthly practice of listening deeply to one another. What does it mean to develop listening as a spiritual practice? If that spiritual practice is more than individual, if it is truly communal, what does that imply? How does our listening hold space for others?

September 7, 2025 Worship Service - Building Belonging and Water Communion by Eric Hepburn ------------------------------------ On the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Building Belonging. In his book The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas says that we need to 'sell the brownie' instead of 'selling the recipe' - might it be possible that Belonging is the Brownie of DEI Work? Are diversity, equity, and inclusion the recipe for a kind of deep belonging in which everyone is invited to participate? A UU specific form of Building Belonging is our annual Water Communion where we ask our friends to gather a sample of water from a specific source that has special meaning, before we gather to combine all of our water during our Water Communion Ceremony.