Rev. Peter Newport returns to our pulpit to reflect on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyr and hero of the German resistance to Nazism, and on Advent — since it’s the 1st Sunday of that season, and was Bonhoeffer’s topic in much of his later work. Assisted by Karl Lindholm. Sharing Our Donation Plate: Food & Housing Crisis … Continue reading Advent 2025
Elio revisited us to lead this special service. We continued our exploration of nurturing gratitude. Here’s a related piece Elio wrote about prophetic witness outside the Broadview ICE facility https://open.substack.com/pub/farlez/p/broadview-break-open-our-hearts Sharing Our Donation Plate: Food & Housing Crisis Local Providers CVUUS supports our local food pantries (CVOEO’s Feeding Champlain Valley and HOPE food shelves in … Continue reading A Universalist Demand to Abolish Ice and Prisons
Join us as we continue November’s spiritual focus on nurturing gratitude. This is an all-ages service where children will participate in and stay in worship. We’ll recognize Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sharing Our Donation Plate: Food & Housing Crisis Local Providers Due to the impending food crisis caused by the non-renewal of SNAP benefits, a … Continue reading Being Thankful When You’d Rather Not
We heard from UUA’s Rev. Eric Kaminetzky & our Ministerial Search Team. We continued November’s spiritual focus on nurturing gratitude. You can watch a video of the service at This is a comp[lete record of the service as it happened, including all the music, except that the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) asked us not to … Continue reading Break Barriers, Build Beliefs
SET CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR. Onsite & Zoom. Join us as we introduce November’s spiritual focus on nurturing gratitude. Sharing Our Donation Plate: Food & Housing Crisis Local Providers Due to the impending food crisis caused by the non-renewal of SNAP benefits, a loss of an average of $200/person/month for so many people across the … Continue reading Gratitude: A Shift in Consciousness
Universalism – the faith that “all will be saved” – has been present among religious ideas in this country from the earliest days of European settlement. It has always been divisive, sometimes dangerously so. Rev. Tricia Hart begins her five-part series on UU history and theology with stories of how wrestling with universal salvation played … Continue reading Where Universalism Came From
Queer poet and author James Crews of Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends helps us reflect on October’s spiritual focus on cultivating compassion. We share passages from James’ works and offer books for sale and signing after worship. We’share our offering this month with … Continue reading LOVE Is for All of Us
What is at the heart of one of the world’s oldest religions? How does it intersect with Unitarian Universalism? What does it teach us about compassion? Come and explore this rich faith with us and what it can teach us about October’s spiritual focus on cultivating compassion & more. We share our offering this month … Continue reading Hinduism
Rev. Christina helps us reflect on October’s spiritual focus on cultivating compassion. We share our offering this month with Outright VT & Middlebury Pride working to lift up our LGBTQIA+ community and celebrating our participation in Midd Pride Parade & Festival on Sat Oct 11, 1-4 pm. See our order of service: See a video … Continue reading Compassionate Detachment
Abi Sessions and Rev. Patricia Hart led us in reflecting on Jewish high holy days assisted by Susie Davis Patterson starting for her first time as a worship associate. Our growing choir was there, as will our RE Coordinator Julia Santerre sharing a story from RE’s focus for the month on Judaism. We are exploring … Continue reading Sacred Forgiveness
