Worship

"The Evolutionary Purpose of Play" – Jake Morrill Evolution has a merciless editing process: what doesn't aid survival doesn't last long. And yet play behavior has persisted across species through it all. Humans are especially evolutionarily primed toward playfulness. We tend to dismiss play as mere entertainment, a frivolous aside. But what does play have […]

Unitarian Universalist General Assembly Worship Service Use the OUUC Zoom link to watch the Sunday Worship from General Assembly, hosted by First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.   First Universalist has been a model of shared ministry and what it means to put the work of dismantling white supremacy and building anti-racist, anti-oppressive practices at the center […]

“Celebrating Our Tangled Independence” - Jennifer Springsteen Today marks the 245th year of our country’s constitutional beginning. How do we align our cruel history and our pride in this beautiful land? Let’s start with George Washington’s birthplace and wind our way into Juneteenth, finally a nationally recognized holiday. Online Worship

"The Masks We Wear” - Rev. Mary Gear Online Worship

Our guest speaker will be Matt Aspin. Online Worship

“Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fear: A Lesson From My Mom” - Bridget Laflin Online Worship

"The Sources of Our Religious Tradition" – Ann Yeo Most of us are familiar with the Principles of Unitarian Universalism.  Fewer of us are familiar with the Sources of our pluralistic religious tradition.  Yet, from one or more of those Sources, come the wisdom, truth, and inspiration that inform and nourish each of us as […]

“Beyond Either/Or” – Rev. Carol McKinley This country’s deeply troubled legacy of racism is lived out in recurrent clashes between those who want the full history of racial injustice in our culture acknowledged, and those who seek to deny, discount or minimize this history. As people of faith, we are called to live into and […]