This morning is an opportunity to worship together with members and friends of UU Berks at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Thomas Paine (TPUUF), led by Rev. Dr. Larry Peers to explore Relentless Gifts. Don’t we often recognize many of the lessons and gifts of our life retrospectively? When we are experiencing a particular challenge, … Continue reading Relentless Gifts
Join members Lauren Fritz and Tracie Greth as they explore the connection between life and death through nature’s lessons and the moving images evoked by Mary Oliver’s poetry.
On this Independence Day weekend, we consider what it means to be independent. What might a shift toward interdependence have to offer us as individuals, a nation and a religious community? For Sunday’s worship, we are using the Zoom conferencing platform. It is easy to Zoom from a computer, tablet, or phone! Here is how … Continue reading In(ter)dependence
Join us for the Sunday morning worship service at NOON at the annual UU General Assembly 2021. The worship will be available at this link GA Sunday Service. You can also visit UUA.org which will include both the video itself and a link to the video on YouTube; you can read the full description and see the order … Continue reading Sunday Worship, General Assembly 2021 starting at Noon
Play is healing – and it’s fun. What better time than the brink of summer to explore this soulful topic in story, song and sharing.
Our congregation has made a commitment to becoming more fully anti-racist and anti-oppression. This weekend we deepened this commitment and our understanding of how race and ethnicity play out in our institutions and our daily lives in the Jubilee III Anti-Racism Training. This morning Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees and participants will share how their minds … Continue reading Learning Together about Race and Ethnicity
This Sunday we mark the journey of youth in our church community into young adulthood. This is known as the Bridging Service, and it is a significant UU rite of passage for those who have reached 18 and/or are graduating from high school this year. Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees’ return from sabbatical this Sunday marks … Continue reading Bridging Service & Ceremony
No one is a monolith. This Sunday we consider the ways we are connected by our individual and collective stories.
How many of us have had our whole worlds changed by another person’s story? A moment of shared connection, a song, a moment of creating together? In this collaborative service, adults and children from our Growing Anti-Racist UUs program will open up their own spiritual toolboxes and ask you to explore yours, too. We’ll be … Continue reading “Tell Me A Story…”
Laura Hershey wrote, “…Those without power risk everything to tell their story and must.” This Sunday we will consider the stories we tell and retell to encourage us onward.
