January 8th Service: "Finding Our Center: Relationships"

As we continue our spiritual theme of the month, we explore relationships as a way to find and find again our center. With a dash of the feminist mantra: "stay curious, build empathy, and raise heck," how do we center relationships in our spiritual lives? 

Led by Rev. Dr. Rebekah A. Savage. Special music by Adrian Graham on flute with Justin Furnia on piano.

January 15th Service: "Finding Our Center: Service"

On this Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & 30 Days of Love Sunday, we embrace service as our prayer, and a way back to our center. We will bless Rev. Rebekah as she begins her sabbatical, and we will also bless each other for this special time in the life and history of UUCR. 

Led by Rev. Dr. Rebekah A. Savage. Special music by HALO and the UUCR Community Choir; Justin Furnia on piano.

January 22nd Service: "Finding Serenity"

The Serenity Prayer, which is attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr, emerged in the late 1930’s in the face of a rapidly changing society not unlike where we are today. We will explore this simple prayer based on a profound principle: finding serenity and wisdom in knowing the difference between what we can, and cannot, change.

Led by Rev. Morgan McLean. Special music by the UUCR Chamber Ensemble; Justin Furnia on piano.

January 29th Service: "Dare to Love Again"

Do I dare to love again? Many of us have asked that question at one time or another. I know I have. Whether after death, disappointment or betrayal, life is always asking us to give love another chance. But do we dare? And how?

Led by Rev. Dr. Robert M. Hardies. Special music by the UUCR Community Choir; Justin Furnia on piano.

February 5th Service - "Accepting Mistakes: Opening Our Hearts"

What is the best way forward with the most love possible? By allowing ourselves to show up as imperfectly perfect human beings. In doing so, we can make space for growth and the mistakes that come with growth. As Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin write in the book Mistakes and Miracles, "Although [we] may make mistakes over and over, [we] also can face [our] failures and try again, with broken-open hearts, to build the kind of multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community that is truly countercultural."

Led by Ministerial Intern Brenna Clanton. Special music by Julie Graf, Amy Heath, and a Women’s Ensemble; Justin Furnia on piano.

February 12th "We Are A Global Faith"

There are Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist groups around the globe. This service will explore and celebrate our connections, and our differences, with our siblings in faith. Rev. Morgan will also reflect on her own work of unlearning our American expectations and learning anew to center emerging voices.

Led by Rev. Morgan McLean. Special music by the UUCR Community Choir; Justin Furnia on piano.

February 19th "Threshold of Beauty"

Things will come. Things will change and grow. We must be wise and patient as we prepare. We must have a plan, pull the weeds, and prepare the land.

Led by Rev. Morgan McLean. Special music by WildBerry Jam; Dick Gilbert on piano.

February 26th "New World Waking"

Frayed tempers and rising world tensions. Vulnerable youth and polarized politics. In a world in which so much seems at risk, the need for dynamic and deeply rooted progressive faith community is greater than ever. What comes next?

Led by Guest Minister Rev. Audette Fulbright Fulson. Special music by the UUCR Community Choir; Justin Furnia on piano.

March 5th Service: "Joy!"

The youth group (grades 7 through 12) will lead a service on Joy and Love. They will start the service with something that gives them joy and then broaden it to what brings you joy in difficult times. Please wear clothes that bring you joy.

March 12th Service: "Our Vulnerable Selves, Our Vulnerable World"

Vulnerability is important for connecting with others and for people seeing who we truly are. Sometimes it gets to be too much, and managing that becomes an important act of self-love. And sometimes things shock us and remind us how fragile we really can be, and the care that we owe to those that are exposed to unwilling vulnerability.

March 19th Service: "Gods of Space and Time"

Science. Story. Mystery. And us, in between.

March 26th Service: "Slings and Arrows"

Pain and suffering are an inevitable part of life. None of us can avoid what William Shakespeare called “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” But sometimes we compound our suffering by the way we respond to it, and by the stories we tell ourselves about it. How can we be more gentle with ourselves and minimize these self-inflicted wounds?