This SUUF Worship Service will highlight our commitment to building the Beloved Community as a daily practice. We will call upon three pillars of the SUUF vision of being theologically diverse, radically inclusive and justice centered as stated in our Sedona Unitarian Universalist Shared Affirmation of Mission: This Fellowship is a welcoming, diverse, and nurturing … Continue reading L.O.V. E. – Living Our Vision Everyday
This SUUF Worship Service will recognize and honor those mothers who have taught us how to be human. Those mothers who grew a human in their body. Those mothers who have been, and are presently, a mother to any sentient being. Motherliness is much more than the romantic image portrayed in patriarchy. Motherhood is the … Continue reading Every Day is Mother’s Day
This SUUF Worship Service will ask and answer the question: what is a “living tradition”? Article II of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Bylaws, Principles and Purposes holds the covenant to which all of our congregations and covenanted communities pledge ourselves when we become members of our UUA. It is time for us to do … Continue reading A Living Tradition: Our Unitarian Universalist Principles
Our Worship Service “Lovely, Awesome and Perfect” reflects and describes the words of a song that is traditionally sung to young children. Over the years I have found that we adults need to hear it, too. What if you had heard, over and over from the first breath that you ever took, that you were … Continue reading Lovely, Awesome and Perfect
Our Worship Service, “Rolling Back The Stone,” will recognize Easter Sunday, Passover, and Ramadan, as well as those Earth Centered Traditions that recognize ancient, naturally occurring phenomenon. We will ask what a time after the earthquake might look like. A time after the death of white supremacy, a time when the people rose up and … Continue reading Rolling Back The Stone
Our SUUF Worship Service, “Sermon On The Amount,” will ask us to consider what is truly ours. So, what is yours? How about, what you came here with. Your wit, your insight, your character, a gallbladder, couple hips, a head and a heart. Money is not yours, it is something you earned, inherited or was … Continue reading Sermon on The Amount
“The Great Undoing” could be a prescription for our current time of turmoil within America. This worship service will offer a way, an attitude, an internal expression, an embodied approach to whatever is happening around us and our families. The good news is you already know how to do this. This in-person service takes place … Continue reading The Great Undoing
Our worship service this Sunday will ask us to consider the difference between setting intentions that pull us forward or outward to set new goals which is a good thing. And Living with Intention which speaks to allowing ourselves to be pulled inward, to listen to that inner voice where matters of the heart await … Continue reading Living With Intention
This SUUF Worship Service will give voice to the Reverend Howard Thurman, mystic, preacher and spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. Reverend Thurman was the first black dean at a white university, co-founder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States and gives an unparalleled insight into the religious experience and … Continue reading A Strange Freedom
Our lawmakers, parents, many think tanks, and conservative pundits continue to wage a war over how to teach students about systemic racism. These activists and lawmakers have centered much of their anger on a framework called Critical Race Theory. This sermon will clarify that CRT is a body of legal scholarship from the 70s and … Continue reading Critical Race Theory
