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Heartland

Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen shares learnings from what is sometimes called the heartland, flyover country where legacies of both strong social justice organizing and oppressive politics live on and the future is being made and unmade each day.  Link to sermon

How to Disobey a Tyrant

Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”—his ode to the prophetic power of conscience—inspired both Gandhi and Dr. King. Thoreau’s message was: “Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.” How can our friend Thoreau help us think about disobedience and resistance in the Age of Trump. Links to view the sermon and a special … Continue reading How to Disobey a Tyrant

Safe in the Swamp

Where the water and the land meet. We’ll reflect on famous US swamps – real and metaphorical – that have bred safety, innovation and protection in times of uncertainty and oppression. Video link to the sermon.

Big Love

Love is at the heart of the life of faith. But not just any kind of love. The religious life demands of us a big love—a love that stretches us, and invites us to draw wide the circle of our embrace. What are the implications of such a love for our lives and our world?

The Prophets of Fear and The Gospel of Love

The prophets of fear play on our anxieties and turn us against one another. None of us are immune from their influence. From its beginning, Unitarian Universalism has confronted the prophets of fear with a gospel of love. Now more than ever we are called to embody that legacy.

Liberation Then and Now

Join us in celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. Let us rejoice in what it means to be free and reflect on the work of continued liberation for ourselves and one another.