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Pride Sunday

This year the Buffalo Pride week activities will once again be virtual, due to Covid. As we celebrate yet another Pride Sunday in isolation and restriction, I wonder how that reality can make us even more compassionate and proactive allies in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Letters Home

A poignant service that weaves the words of those who have served in
the U.S. military from the American Revolutionary War to the present.

In Their Own Words

We celebrate the beauty and inspiration of the natural world with poetry, music, and reflections of naturalists, transcendentalists, and other earth-spirited folk!

Becoming an Embodied Faith

East meets West as we seek insights from the 8-fold path of Buddhism and the expanded 8 principles of Unitarian Universalism. What are the
connections? How do we engage head, heart, and hands?

Julia Ward Howe: Let Us Celebrate Mothers (Day)

Julia Ward Howe was an early advocate for a special day to celebrate and commemorate mothers. Kristin Chambers, a long-time UU and retired professor of Social Work, culled through Ms. Ward’s writings to create this soliloquy.

Pathways to Healing & Regeneration

Spring for Change: A Season of Sacred Activism Sponsored by UU Ministry for EarthWhen you imagine pathways to personal, social and ecological healing and regeneration, what do you see? Who is with you on your journey? What transforms and gives way to new beginnings? Who and/or what are you accountable to along the way?

Co-Creating the World We Dream Of

What do a theoretical mathematician, an Afrofuturist and wool have incommon? This Sunday’s guest preacher will attempt to bring theseseemingly unrelated ideas together. It’s not quite a death-defying highwire act, but he hopes you’ll enjoy the theological and practicalapplications of a school of philosophy and theology that was firstarticulated almost 100 years ago.

Daring Greatly & Rising Strong

I have been deeply inspired by the writings of shame and vulnerabilityresearcher, Brené Brown. Immersing ourselves in these practices canhelp us become more resilient, leading to more compassion forourselves and others.