Starr King Unitarian Universalist Church

Ambivalent Gratitudes

Led by Rev. Jay Atkinson, pulpit guest. The homecoming of war veterans presents many of us with tensions between gratitude for their service and belief in our country’s ideals on the one hand, and grave doubts about the legitimacy of our military action in Iraq and Afghanistan on the other. In addition, many veterans return more in need of compassion and healing than of traditional bombastic displays of military honor. As we look forward to Memorial Day later this month, how should our various gratitudes to them be nuanced and balanced against our legitimate prophetic protest against war and militarism?

Blue Boat Home

Led by the Worship Committee. We are all in this together. Join members of the worship committee as we consider differing ideas of home.

Fearfully Fragile

Led by Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris. MULTIGENERATIONAL SERVICE It is fitting that April is home to both Earth Day and Poetry month. Let us celebrate both in word and song. The children will join in for the first half of the service, then will meet a number of visiting animals.

Growing Older and Wiser

Led by Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris. The awareness that we inhabit an aging body can come quickly like a lighting bolt, or as slowly as a snail. The way we face the reality may move more like a firefly. How can we take on the inevitability of our growing older with grace and appreciation?

Faithful Doubting

Led by Roy King, Jr., intern minister. We associate a “Doubting Thomas” with a character who demands physical proof of events couched in mystery. How can we doubt in faith and how could the biblical Thomas serve as an inspiration for Unitarian Universalism?

Flowers, Stones and Eggs

Led Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris, Darcy Baxter and Roy King, Jr. MULTI-GENERATIONAL service On this early season Easter Sunday, we’ll celebrate our annual flower communion, roll away the stone, and afterwards, hunt for eggs. Isn’t this a perfect holiday for our multi-faith complexity of this conjoined tradition?

Our Passover: Is it Sufficient?

Led by Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris. It is one of our traditions here to observe the Jewish holiday of Passover with a community Seder. (This year it will be Friday, March 29th.) But what does it mean for us as Unitarian Universalists to celebrate this tradition of people in exile?

Connections Are Made Slowly: Ethical Eating

Led by Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris. “Before you finish breakfast this morning, you’ll have relied on half the world,” remarked Martin Luther King, Jr. Shall we consider how our food choices impact our lives and the lives of those around us? Shall we ask the earth and its creatures?

This is My Song

Led Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris What is our moral obligation as free-thinking Unitarian Universalists with regard to peacemaking? Where might we begin? How far might we take it?

No Zombies Here: Resilience in Post-Quake Haiti

Led by Roy King, Jr. The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee has supported Haitian recovery since in earthquake of 2010. Roy King just returned from there and saw the work of UUSC and its local partners. What lessons can we learn from the incredibly adaptive and resilient Haitian people?