This week, Gena Wade will offer the sermon “Curiosity, Connection, and the Moral Imagination.” Curiosity can be understood as a tool for connection and imagination. In a time of virulent societal divisions, how do we see through our divisions to recognize the humanity of our fellow citizens on this planet? How can curiosity improve how … Continued

Debs Szymkowiak will lead our service and share the sermon “Beauty in the Heart of the Beholder,” by the Rev. Brigitte Bechtold.  Rev. Bechtold comments, “Spring is a time of emerging beauty. With that in mind, we explore the possibility of expanding what we think of as beautiful.” Remote attendees: join at the link below. … Continued

This service will use a re-broadcast of a March sermon by the Rev. Taryn Strauss, at the UU Congregation of Atlanta. Rev Strauss says, “This is no time to settle for anything less than full justice, full accountability, and full-throated vision for the world we have been dreaming of creating together. Do not let others … Continued

Guest speaker SarahRuth Wekoye Hodgkinson Davis asks us to consider this idea: “Who are our Sponsors, those who nourished us into existence? Gratitude, at its foundation, is to be thankful for life, for our part and place in this life, and to honor our Sources of Life, in each moment of our existence. Using old … Continued

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Guest minister Rev. Bruce Marshall joins us this Sunday.  He observes: “It is a question Jesus is reported to have asked his disciples, a question that echoes through the ages: Who was Jesus? Hidden behind the stories and the myths was a human being who lived and taught and healed and inspired a movement and … Continued

This Sunday, Gena Wade will lead our service with a sermon for Stewardship Sunday. We can take the idea of “paying attention” (our March service theme) and turn it many directions, to see what light gets reflected back from a different facet.  Each of these ways of paying attention poses a specific question for us … Continued

This Sunday, we will hear the sermon “Presence as a Portal to Possibility,” by Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman.  Scott-Huffman writes, “When we treat presence as a task to be completed, another box to check on the endless list of vocational duties or family obligations, it feels impossible. It feels like trying to meditate in the middle … Continued

For our Purim observance this Sunday, families and friends are invited to gather in the Church of the Ascension kitchen at 9 AM to make hamantaschen, the traditional three‑cornered Purim cookies. Then Rabbi Gail Fisher will lead us in a lively, family‑friendly Purim service featuring singing, children’s crafts and a puppet show telling the story of Purim.  We’ll share … Continued

When dehumanizing rhetoric and shouting in the public sphere threaten to drown out all else, what can we do to protect our inner spirit and our capacity to keep our senses and our souls open to life’s beauty and the better world we imagine and long for? Jackie Triplett will present “Sacred Imagination,” a sermon … Continued