Every Sunday, at the beginning of our worship service, we recite together our Affirmation of Mission: “This fellowship is a welcoming, diverse, and nurturing beloved community that promotes progressive religious thought and practice to create a more loving, just and sustainable world.” This serves as a reminder of the vision we hold for our community … Continue reading Living Our Vision Everyday
Our Unitarian Universalist theological legacy has long put us on the forefront of advocacy and prophetic action to widen our circle. To widen our circle of concern for those who have been historically marginalized. In these searing times of political division, racial inequity, climate change, economic polarization, and global strife, people need a sustaining faith. … Continue reading Widening Our Circle
Welcome to our first Worship Service of the Fall of 2023. We look forward to being together again this Sunday. Our summer hiatus has drawn to a close, and we’re pleased that many were able to participate in activities that were available during the past 3 months. All are invited to bring a sample of … Continue reading Water Ceremony: Welcome Home
This SUUF Worship Service reflected this Minister’s thoughts and feelings about the past year serving as Minister of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. What a sense of great fulness I feel as we wrap up our final sermon of the season. We are more than grateful to those who have chosen Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship … Continue reading Radiating Gratitude
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
