Click here to watch a livestream of the service Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, describes lamp oil giving light for eight days instead of the expected one day. As our world recovers from COVID, how do we find joy and light when our resources seem stretched so thin?
Every Friday night volunteers from UUSP and the larger community serve 70-90 unsheltered individuals. What is the truth behind each guest’s journey? Our mission is to shine the light of compassion, making each guest visible, respected and sustained….for one night.
The theme this month is Holding History. Our faith places truthful telling of history at the center of our principles. In our first principle, we promise to value the worth and dignity of every person. In our fourth principle, we value the search for what is true. When we want to tell the real story, … Continue reading Freeing Healing and Beauty with Truthful Telling
This service will combine the Soul Matters topics of “Cultivating Relationships” with November’s “Holding History” by focusing on the celebration of Samhain, a time of deep reverence for many pagans. Samhain is considered to be the most important celebration of our sacred source of earth-centered religions. This is an All Ages service! View our service online … Continue reading A Time of Beginnings and Endings: Ancient Druidry meets Modern UU’s for a Celebration of Samhain and Halloween
Think that the important issues are at the national level? More often, change starts at the local level. Hear how UUSP’s Social Justice ministry is changing the lives of Pinellas County residents. We bet you’ll be surprised by all that we can do. Join us this Sunday on Youtube!
Religious Education Service – Our faith has a long history of being committed to these skills. Deep listening shows up prominently in our small group ministries and is now also central in our decentering work as white UUs learn to step back, limit defensiveness and listen to the wisdom and voices of non-white UUs and … Continue reading Religious Education Worship Service
“The storm is passing over, the old hymn says, Except… The storm has not passed over just yet, has it? Here, for this hour together, We rest in the eye of the storm. We gather not as a changed people, but as a changing people.” – Hannah Roberts Villnave
“We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. Some are on super-yachts. Some have just the one oar.” Damian Barr’s poem in the early days of the pandemic reminds us that some of us have more power and privilege than others, based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, … Continue reading Embracing the Possibilities that We Are Not in the Same Boat
Several states have passed laws outlawing the teaching of Critical Race Theory, but what does it actually mean? This worship service asks: who gets to tell the story of our country’s history and what is our responsibility as Unitarian Universalists with respect to racism and white privilege? All are welcome to this online worship service!
“UU congregations share a lot of attributes, but at the same time, no two UU communities are the same.And often their uniqueness is rooted in a very particular event in their history. Story is what keeps that event alive, and even more importantly, story is what enables that event to become the glue that binds … Continue reading Worship Committee
