Speaker: Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones

How Many Kinds of Listening Help Us to Grow

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 Listening to more-than-human voices, experilearning with spiritual practices that invite us to listen to others’ stories, listening to and learning from the heartbreak of war … In this wide-ranging service, we find our call to connection and to caring beyond the borders that can make our lives … Continue reading How Many Kinds of Listening Help Us to Grow

Whole, Holy, and Worthy: A Journey Through Immigrant Stories

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 This year at UUCG we invite us to explore what a “culture of care” really feels like–in our homes, in our community, in our country, and our world. In this multigenerational service, we dramatize real-life stories of immigrants to this country to see how our faith’s invitation … Continue reading Whole, Holy, and Worthy: A Journey Through Immigrant Stories

Ingathering! Inviting Us into a Culture of Care

Please join us for our annual celebration of Ingathering! How would you fill in these two sentences:  If you will be attending in person, please bring a small amount of water representing you summer experiences so that, before the service, you can add it to our bowls representing North, East, South, and West.  Rev. Nancy … Continue reading Ingathering! Inviting Us into a Culture of Care

Who Are Our Role Models?

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 This Sunday, Rev. Nancy brings her enthusiasm for a couple of our religious role models who show us how to put democracy and compassion into action in troubled times. We’ve been here before! Whose example do you want to follow? Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones (she/her), Worship LeaderLaDonna … Continue reading Who Are Our Role Models?

Blessing Our Backpacks and Practicing Democracy

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 What do you use to carry the tools of your learning–a backpack, tote bag, tablet, journal, or phone? Please bring this “container” to service this Sunday, as we Bless the Backpacks of children, youth, adults, and elders. We’ll continue the multigenerational learning with an exercise in democracy … Continue reading Blessing Our Backpacks and Practicing Democracy

Compassion and Democracy: Grounding ourselves in Who We Are – Worship and Conversation

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 Public events in the last few weeks have left many of us feeling that the dream of democracy may be fragile and uncertain. Yet democracy and compassion, with their values on the inherent worthiness and dignity of every person, lie at the core of who we are … Continue reading Compassion and Democracy: Grounding ourselves in Who We Are – Worship and Conversation

Weaving Our Lives

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 We are all tangled up together in a great web of life that is woven with beauty and hardship, love and loss, thriving and struggle. How do we tend well to the weaving so that all of us are held in care? Join us in UUCG’s sanctuary … Continue reading Weaving Our Lives

That Elusive Balance: Volunteer Appreciation Sunday

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 As folx who love to get things done and as humans who need rest and renewal on the regular, how do we create that elusive balance that allows us to keep our energy and partnerships vibrant and growing? This Sunday, we celebrate our awesome UUCG volunteers and … Continue reading That Elusive Balance: Volunteer Appreciation Sunday

Universes Inside Us All: The Liberation in Pluralism

Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 Inside each of us, Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto reminds us, are “entire Universes … expanding.” If we want to be free, we must nurture and cherish our own expansiveness. Still, if we really want liberation—for ourselves and others—we need to be willing to fight for the “entire … Continue reading Universes Inside Us All: The Liberation in Pluralism