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No Strangers Here

The quote, “There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t yet met,” has long been attributed to the poet Yeats, but rather than referring to an Irish pub, could mean the way we think about cultivating relationship based on covenant. Let’s consider the power that our relational values hold for us.

Indigenous Peoples Day

The new anthology, The Diné Reader, gives an up-close connection to the literary and artistic world of Navajo writers. Let’s celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day by paying attention.

Connecting Spirituality and the Environment

The exploration of the desert and mountain spirituality can be a profound connection to the mystical life. What is the relationship between landscape and theology especially for those of us who live in these environs?

Commissioning our Leaders

Our choir sings today as we celebrate our outgoing and incoming Board of Trustees, the elected leaders of this congregation. What do we each bring to create the Beloved Community?

Sukkot: Find My Soul a Home

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot is a festival holiday, commemorating the end of the harvest and the sheltering of the Israelites in the wilderness. How might we imagine the shelter we need now?

The Possibility of Both/And

Please bring a small vial of water with you to represent your travels and your home. We’ll create community, embracing possibility of more than one way of being and understanding the world. 9am Family Breakfast at Columbine House patio

Do Nothing

In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily.” In the face of all the challenges our post-pandemic society faces, how might we consider how Unitarian Universalist religious communities are being … Continue reading Do Nothing

Down to the River

Let’s gather at Pine Song, near Vallacito Reservoir, to consider what moves us, what inspires us, and how community might serve as the “something larger” that keeps us whole and gives us meaning. Come on down!  *No worship this morning at the UUFD sanctuary or on Zoom. 

By the Book

The Sunday New York Times features a regular column on writers and what has influenced them. How might we answer the questions they are asked, such as, ‘what’s on your nightstand?’, ‘your favorite book as a child?’, ‘what book most influenced you?’ Bring a book to give away and receive another. 

So It Goes

Today we’ll celebrate the absurdities of life, with a little help from one of Unitarian Universalism’s favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut.