Join us for a festive celebration of the winter holidays with lessons and carols of the season. We will light the fourth Advent candle for love, UU style, and you may view or download the complete UU Berks Advent Candle Wreath lighting here.
The Christmas season is a joyful time, but many of us also come with losses, disappointments, and struggles. How do we open to joy even in the difficult times. We will light the third Advent candle, UU style, and you may view or download the complete UU Berks Advent Candle Wreath lighting here.
This morning we reflect on the seeds of peace growing in us and which we are fostering in the world. Our service will include Maya Angelou’s “AMAZING PEACE: A Christmas Poem,” and we will light the second Advent candle, UU style. You may view or download the complete UU Berks Advent Candle Wreath lighting here.
As we move toward the winter holidays, we enter what has been, since most ancient times, the season of expectation and preparation. This morning we reflect on what it is we are waiting for. What are we preparing for? This Sunday is also the first Sunday of Advent, and we will honor Advent, UU style, … Continue reading What Are We Waiting For?
Our Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be hosted onsite and virtually at the Church of the Brethren, 2200 State Hill Rd, Wyomissing, 19610 on Wednesday evening, November 24, at 7 pm. Rev. Mary Wolfe, Hope Lutheran, Café Esperanza, will preach. Other participating congregations include the Islamic Center of Reading, PA, Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, Baha’is, and … Continue reading Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
Join us for our annual Thanksgiving Service of Gratitude. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and the Haudenosaunee “Thanksgiving Address,” this service will explore the possibilities for an honorable harvest rooted in gratitude and reciprocity.
Join Rev Sage Olnick, UU Berk’s Affiliate Community Minister, to consider how telling the truth about the past can help us live into our future. When we look to the past with open minds and hearts in search of truth, we can find hope for the future.
Join us for our annual celebration of Dia de Los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. We will have an altar, reflection, candle lighting, and opportunities to honor those we have lost.
Join us to celebrate Halloween with a Zen Ghost story filled with magic and mystery. We’ll consider the disguises we sometimes wear, the ways we might act differently around different people, and which of those is the real “me.”
Arguing is seen as damaging to relationships. Yet arguing well can strengthen relationships and communities. This morning we’ll consider when we need to rock the boat to be true to ourselves, each other, and our values. This morning we welcome members of the Thomas Paine UU Fellowship in Collegeville to our service.
