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January 11, 2026 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Resisting the Scam
New Year is the time when we’re romanced into thinking there’s something wrong - with us, with our lives, our bodies, our relationships. What if, instead, it’s a time to lean in love ourselves and each other more deeply?
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January 4, 2026 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Embracing Courage
Witold Pilecki was a Polish cavalry officer in WWII, who was the only person to ever break into Auschwitz and then back out again. Together we’ll examine lessons from his life and legacy.
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December 21, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Here Comes the Sun
Join us for a celebration of the lengthening days and consideration of what it means to embrace progress and inspiration.
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December 14, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - They Did What They Could With What They Had
What is Hanukkah anyway? Join us to talk about how a story about resisting military enemies can teach us about courage and offer us questions about peace.
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December 7, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Gifts From the Darkness
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn…” - David WhyteThis part of the year often gets described as the end of the year, but before any...
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November 30, 2025 Terri Schmiesing - Giving Thanks, Finding Joy
Even when we find ourselves in the midst of struggles, every day gives us a new opportunity to practice gratitude and find joy. Please join us in taking time to reconnect, laugh, and sing for joy! We will celebrate being alive, toge...
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August 17, 2025 Cheyenne Herlandstein - Something in the Water
We get to choose some of our endeavors; others choose us. Cheyenne will share her personal story of becoming an environmentalist and science educator, and the impacts of one particularly personal, seemingly ubiquitous, nefarious form of p...
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November 9, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Wisdom Emerging
Fall and harvest are a time of transition, and sometimes, counterintuitively, growth. Let’s talk about what the ebb of autumn can teach us about change, beauty, and courage.
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November 2, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?
Across cultures, people develop rituals to honor their beloved dead—vibrant celebrations like Día de los Muertos in Mexico, ancient Celtic Samhain, church bells tolling, Victorian mourning clothes, and today’s roadside memorials. We'll explore ...
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October 26, 2025 Jim Powers - UU Lite: A Religion for the Digital Age
As we reflect on healing, both in community and as individuals, we will create a bandage ritual together. What does it mean to have compassion for your neighbor and be supportive of their healing? Who is our neighbor anyway? Let’s be curious to...
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October 7, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - Where the Light Gets In
As we reflect on healing, both in community and as individuals, we will create a bandage ritual together. What does it mean to have compassion for your neighbor and be supportive of their healing? Who is our neighbor anyway? Let’s be curious to...
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September 28, 2025 Rev. Misha Sanders - Tongues of Fire!
Can an ancient sacred story about the infilling of the Holy Spirit be useful to Unitarian Universalists? What if a retelling through a new lens makes all the difference? What if the message of Pentecost really has been applicable al...
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September 21, 2025 GA Delegates - Meeting the Moment
UUA’s General Assembly (GA) is the annual Business Meeting for our denomination; but it is SO much more than just doing business. GA's 2025 theme called us to Meet the Moment: to engage with the evolving challenges of our world, ex...
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October 19, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - The Welcome That Perceives Us
What does it mean to be welcomed for who we are, and not for what we appear to be? This Sunday we’ll reflect on mistaken honor and ask how compassion, dignity, and true hospitality invite us to see one another clearly. Together, we’ll consider ...
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October 12, 2025 Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto - How Did We Get Here?
Inspired by the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime, we’ll reflect on the story of Tisquantum, often nicknamed “Squanto” and what it means to remember with honesty. Gratitude, justice, and belonging all meet when we ask: how did we g...
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September 7, 2025 Pamela Midyett - The Gift of Eve
"Adam & Eve didn't fall", says my friend, Rabbi David Horowitz, "they were pushed." The "Fall of Man" supposedly was the First "Sin" and the event that made human beings "mortal", getting us kicked out of Paradise. But I b...
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August 31, 2025 Echo Christensen, Jim Powers, Kathleen LaFlamme - Summer's End
We stand at the end of one season, looking back at the warm, carefree days of Summer, not quite ready to say goodbye but knowing that just around the corner is a new season with all its challenges. The beginning of the school year, the beginnin...
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August 24, 2025 Kat Prince Kosmos - The Revolutionary Act of Self-Love
This Sunday, join us as we explore the radical power of loving ourselves in a world that often thrives on our self-doubt. Together, we’ll reflect on how nurturing compassion for our own bodies, minds, and spirits can ripple outward—challenging ...
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August 10, 2025 Christine Hinderer - It's All Curriculum
The most important part of our religious education curriculum for children, youth, and adults is our church community, our congregation, our church building, and everyone in it or connected to it in person or virtually. Who we are is what...
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August 3, 2025 Kim Stein - Self-Care: It's All About Connections
Have you found yourself exhausted of late? Are you finding it difficult to relate to those with different views, or even to foster your close relationships? We’re going to explore the importance of self-care—connecting with yourself...
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July 27, 2025 Matt DePlois - Bodily Autonomy and the Need to Trust Each Other
Affirming the inherent dignity and worth of every person is the 1st principle of UUism, but how do we live that principle? What does it mean to really affirm another person’s humanity and inherent dignity? How do we act like we trul...
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July 20, 2025 Kym Lamb - Everyday Mystics
When we hear the title of Mystic, we tend to think of gurus, solitary monks or enlightened spiritual leaders, but a mystic is simply someone who is seeking to find the sacred in ordinary life events. Using Mirabai Starr’s teachings, let’s...
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July 13, 2025 Scott Lindstrom - More Than Not
Without dogma, we may seem spiritually untethered. But our freedom to believe compels us daily to seek deeper meaning for ourselves and our community. Join us as we explore becoming more than what we don’t choose to believe. A...
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July 6, 2025 Jenn Crowell - Disability Allyship and Activism: Defending the Worth and Dignity of All
Disability allyship reflects the worth and dignity of every person, while disability activism allows us to put our UU values in action in a society that frequently devalues disabled people even in a post-ADA world. Come learn how you can ...
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June 29, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - The Magic of the Empty Space
If there is water filling half of a glass, do you see it as half full, or half empty? Whichever way you see it, what's the matter with the empty space? Maybe that's where the magic is... in the space that has room to be filled. ...
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