Index of Sunday Services 1998-2003

March 2, 2003
Rev. Nina D. Grey

Rainbow Sources: Our Living Tradition

Our Unitarian Universalist principles include seven affirmations of the values that we commonly share, and six statements about the varied heritages we tap in our seeking of truth and inspiration. Today we honor our rich living tradition, the varied sources of our inspiration. This Sunday we join in our first Sunday Way Cool Sunday School multigenerational worship experience. Returning to images of the rainbow, we'll draw on story, poetry, music and homily to reflect on the sources of our quests for truth and meaning.

March 9, 2003
Carolyn and Donald Neeper
Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker, Worship Co-Leader

Science and reason, once regarded as welcome authorities, are now sometimes regarded with suspicion or hostility, both by fundamentalists and by U-U's seeking spirituality. Science is often blamed for commercialization, the abuses of technology, and the loss of meaning. Perhaps that is why there is deep resistance to learning anything about science. Only 6 % of Americans are literate in science. At the same time science has not lost the passion it shares with religion-a search for Truth. If religion is to be beneficial, it must provide myths, values, and ethical guidance that are consistent with our knowledge of the natural world.

This sermon will examine how science got its bad rap, and how the current study of complexity science offers hope for meaning and spirituality. The new science of complexity gives us a meaningful framework for our fourth and seventh principles, while demanding ethical responsibility in human actions. Best of all, it assures us that nothing we do is inconsequential..

First Forum led by Cary and Don Neeper: We will look at our habitual Newtonian ways of thinking and acting, in which we expect all effects (including bad events) to have rational causes (or persons to blame). Visual indicators of complexity will be presented with implications for church organization.

March 16, 2003
Rev. Nina D. Grey

On the Relationship of the Personal and the Public

Rev. Nina Grey will offer us some thoughts that she brings home from her experience at the Midsize Church Conference, particularly in relation to the reflections of the theme speaker, Sharon Welch, author of The Feminist Ethic of Risk and Sweet Dreams in America.

March 23, 2003
Rev. Nina D. Grey

A Sustainable Life

Inspired by the study and work of our new Environmental Task Force, aware of the changing of the seasons, and the elements of life, earth, air, fire, and water, we celebrate the changing season, and we think on a spirituality of sustainability and the ways we interact with the environment that holds and keeps us.

March 30, 2003
Rev. Nina D. Grey

Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also:
A Sermon As We Approach the Canvass

Join us in thinking about the relationship of resources and the shaping of our personal, congregational and community lives, as we reflect on who we are, the needs and values we hold in common, the hopes we have for our future, the resources we bring to bear on those hopes, and the ways we may support our life together.

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