Earth Day Service
April 19th the Green Team will offer an Earth Day service. They were snowed-out in February and are ready to bring some inspiration to us as spring unfolds.
Archives: Services
Covenant
April 12th will include an update on where we are in the covenant renewal process. More than wordsmithing, this process is an acknowledgment of who we are becoming and how we want to be with one another and in the world.
Easter Sunday
April 5th is Easter Sunday. What does that mean for UUs? I hope you’ll come and find out! No Candy Easter Egg Hunt after service.
Trans Day of Visibility
Do UUs Pray? (If so, how. If not, why not?)
Paying Attention: The Practice of Covenantal Love
Love is not only a feeling … it is a practice. Together we’ll reflect on how paying attention is one of the ways we live our covenant with one another. Drawing on the recent agreement between the New York State Attorney General’s Office and Buffalo Public Schools to address harmful student discipline practices in our … Continue reading Paying Attention: The Practice of Covenantal Love
The Music of Resilience
What better way to prepare for our annual meeting (at noon) than to sing and celebrate this congregation’s resilience in good times and bad?
Resilience Through Covenant
Our congregational covenant is more than a poetic promise, it is a tool for creating personal and institutional resilience. Let’s put hearts and minds together as we prepare to draft/revise a covenant for the present and future. (A workshop will follow at noon)
Embodying Resilience
What is resilience and how do we embody it? What is your resilience ‘factor’? What practices do you employ (or not) to weave a ‘garment’ of resilience?
Something About Elephants
How is it that humans can feel so different from their fellow humans, and yet feel a kinship and commonality with creatures of other species? And of all other land-animals, none looks as “other” as the elephant, but we have a strange history of a deep-felt connection with this stony-skinned gentle giant. john (lower case … Continue reading Something About Elephants