Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Susan Panttaja, Deb Mason
Music by: Robin Rogers & The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Fire Relief TBD
It can be hard to have faith in anxious times such as these, whether that is faith in your fellow humans, your country, your God or Goddess. It can be hard even to have faith in yourself. Today we’ll talk about how to stay sane in insane times, and what it will take to truly make our country great.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Andrew Hidas, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & The Choir, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Fire Relief TBD
What’s in a name? “The Great Big Thing that can be named is not the true Great Big Thing,” to paraphrase the Tao Te Ching. That hasn’t stopped us from naming it again and again. The UU way is to celebrate all of these names. To do so, we’ll look at both the tradition of the “99 Names of God” in Islam, and Arthur C. Clarke’s short story, “The 9 Billion Names of God.”
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Joe Gabaeff, Deb Mason
Music by: Alan Bell & The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: The Living Room
A poetic service using Judy Collins’ song Nightingale and the story of Jacob and his famous wrestling match will help us consider the struggle to have faith in things unseen and unheard. There is no shame in doubt and uncertainty, particularly after a disaster. Indeed, doubt is necessary for mature faith to flourish.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Aphrodite Bellochio, Deb Mason
Music by: Natalie Brundred & The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: The Raizes Collective
We’ll have some fun today considering the least loved of the Hogwarts Houses in the Harry Potter novels, which beautifully illustrates the old adage, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” A service about welcoming the shadow, in ourselves and others, and making room for everybody at the table. Where will the sorting hat place you?
Service Leaders: Rev. Dave Sammons, Izzy Fischer, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Paul Gilger
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors
Trump-era politics is prying apart of the American public into tribes with different values, different goals and a belief that “our tribe” is the only legitimate one. Can we bridge this gap? Our UU Principles call us to break out of our own tribalism and find a way to be with others in a way that will be of good for all of us.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Joe Gabaeff, Deb Mason
Music by: John Ray & The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Vital Immigration Defense Advocacy and Services (VIDAS)
Service Leaders: Amy Carlson, Eric Fischer, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Friends of the North Bay Regional Center
Hospitality is an ancient spiritual practice which calls us to be welcoming not only to those we love and to strangers, but also to our enemies. A radical idea. What does it mean to be hospitable to our enemies, and who are our enemies? How can we shift our attitude from one of hostility to hospitality?
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Sharon McCarty, Dee Ray, Deb Mason
Music by: Susan Panttaja & The UUsual Suspects, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Listening for a Change
Hospitality. Hospital. Hostel. Hotel. They all share the same root, and they all refer to a place where strangers and guests are welcomed with kindness. A healthy congregation is a little like a hospital and a hostel. So is a healthy nation. But being truly welcoming is no easy task; it takes courage and self-awareness and deep faith.
Dee Ray will offer a guest reflection.
There will be only one service, with a congregational meeting at 11:00. Please come to both and learn all the exciting things that are happening at UUCSR beyond Sunday morning.
Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Scott Miller, Deb Mason
Music by: Sadie Sonntag and the Choir, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” said Shelley. In strange and dark times, the calling of poetry to speak truth and celebrate the universal in the particular is needed more as ever. This service will celebrate the radical power of poetry by focusing on Native American poet (and feminist saxophonist) Joy Harjo and the English poet (and Jesuit priest) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Service Leaders: Becky Leyser, Susan Panttaja, Deb Mason
Music by: Robin Rogers & The UUsual Suspects, Paul Gilger
Share the Basket: Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
In the book, Saving Paradise, authors Rebecca Parker and Rita Nakashima Brock talk about the power of beauty to be a transformational aid. In this time of chaos and broken dialogue is there a way that we could use beauty as a connecting point?
Becky Leyser (Starr King School for the Ministry, 2016) just completed a yearlong chaplaincy residency at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. St. Francis sits at the crossroads of Nob Hill, the richest part of the City, and the Tenderloin, the poorest. Adventures at the hospital have informed this notion of beauty that started in seminary.
