Starr King Unitarian Universalist Church

~Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris & Leah Hart-Landsberg Religious education strengthens and enriches our entire congregation. Come be reminded of exactly how

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~Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris Today is National Coming Out Day. How can we come out to affect real change toward equality for all people, regardless of sexual orientation? Let this be the day we dedicate ourselves to Stand on the Side of Love.

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September 27: Rev. Katie Kandarian It’s Yom Kippur, the holiest of days on the Jewish calendar. How is it for us? Might we be inspired by the inward reflection, by the prompting and the reminder to begin again in love?

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October 4

~Jamie McReynolds How do we distinguish pain from suffering? How does our Unitarian Universalist faith help us cope with suffering? Our guest today serves as a hospice chaplain.

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September 20: Exploration Rev. Katie Kandarian & Leah Hart-Landsberg Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit according to the astronaut Frank Borman. It might be by visiting the moon, or discovery a little closer to home through making meaning of the world—what we call religious exploration.

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~Rev. Katie Kandarian Emerson said, “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Let’s celebrate friendship by bringing our friends to church today—the ones you’ve been meaning to tell about your wonderful community.

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August 23:

~Rev. Roger Jones The Humanist Manifesto appeared 75 years ago with Unitarian clergy among the signers. It was a religious challenge to outworn religious doctrines, a cause of controversy in and beyond our UU movement. Come hear what all the fuss was about! Roger Jones is the Family Minister at the UU Society of Sacramento and a board member of the UU Pacific Central District Board and its Growth Committee. He and dear friend Rev. Katie are exchanging pulpits today.

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~Rev. Katie Kandarian Today we’ll try something new with a book communion. Bring a book with you that you’d be willing to share with another—to lend to a member or to give away. Somewhat like the water ceremony, we’ll leave them on the altar and take another home to read. There is a saying, “Let books be your dining table and you shall be full of delights. Let them be your mattress_ and you shall sleep restful nights.”

August 16

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June 28th

Stuart Fink and members What’s it like to “hear” a hand? asks the first line of a poem by William Madsen, retired professor of Galludet University. Laura Fink will sign and members will share reflections on the deaf community.

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19 July:

~Rev. Joy Atkinson The sermon will explore the American religious, literary and philosophical movement of the 1830s and 40s known as Transcendentalism, and what it contributed to the American character and to Unitarian Universalism.

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