Rev. Deborah Cayer, worship leader

ERUUF high school youth group member, Alli Criscenzo, has researched the impact of modern immigration.  This morning, our continuing exploration of immigration in the U.S. will include monologues that she’s created.  

(Alli Crisenczo, Logan Barcus, Katie Reiter-Lavery, Racheal Despard, Tanner Barcus, Hally Searles-Bohs, Theresa Teiter-Lavery, Danny Criscenzo)

Rev. Deborah Cayer

Theologian Thomas Berry envisioned a new story of human origins, one that would speak to human beings in meaningful ways, given our modern understanding of physics and biology.  This morning we’ll explore Berry’s “universe story” with the help of the musical ensemble, Avante.

Rev. Deborah Cayer

As autumn deepens around us, the air cools, nuts and berries ripen, the woods give off spicy scents, and leaves paint the landscape with subtle color. The world offers itself as a meditation on beauty, abundance, and gratitude. This morning we take up the offer.   

Reading: Praise Song by Barbara Crooker (read by Virginia Williams)

Reflection:  Rev. Deborah Cayer

Reading: from Nishmat by Marge Piercy (read by Virginia Williams)

Reflection: Rev. Deborah Cayer

Rev. Deborah Cayer

Bring a picture or memento of a loved one for our Ancestor’s Table.  We’ll sing and hear stories, pray and remember, and imagine a way into the future by the light of love from the past. 

Rev. Margaret L. Beard

Our rituals around death, burial and remembrance have changed over the years. Increasing numbers of people are planning for their deaths, memorial services and other requests for after their death. A new issue is the digital afterlife. I suspect few of us have been thinking about our digital remains and the issues of access, privacy, remembrance and legacy. What would be helpful to know? How does your Unitarian Universalist faith influence your actions or approach?

Rev. Deborah Cayer

“If you don’t know where you’re going,” the Cheshire cat told Alice, “any path will get you there.”  If we know where we want to go, what paths will we choose?   Some thoughts this morning about some of the exciting places the fellowship could go.

Rev. Deborah Cayer

Life has given each of us great gifts.  What are we called to do with them?  

Rev. Deborah Cayer

Most of the world’s religious traditions have some idea about how the unique individual is also part of a greater unity and wholeness.  Unitarian Universalists do, too.  “Oneness” has a particular meaning in this fellowship as well.  Why does it matter?

The Jewish New Year ("May it be sweet!") begins at sunset on September 28, and for Jews it's a time of returning to the heart of faith and right relationship in order to make a good, new beginning. What might Unitarian Universalists learn from this about our own spiritual lives?   

Rev. Cayer, worship leader

Almost 50 years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a monument to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has opened in our nation's capital.   Where are we now in terms of Dr. King's vision of jobs and justice?