UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES
THEME FOR MAY: “AWAKENING CURIOSITY”
May 3
Life! Who Knows What It Is, What It Does?
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Andrew Hager, Kristy Hager, Mia Hager, Trish Lott, Spice Kleinmann, Dr. Daniel Bassin, Music Director, and The TUUC Choir
In his journal, Henry David Thoreau exclaimed, "Life! Who knows what it is, what it does?" This morning, we celebrate awakening curiosity by recognizing our graduating High School senior, Mia Hager. Mia has asked challenging questions since she began attending TUUC at the age of four. Today we have the opportunity to thank her and to wish her well as she prepares for college. Although we may not be able to definitively answer Thoreau's questions, we will celebrate how our community awakens the kind of curiosity that leads one to ask such questions.
May 10
Daughters of Time
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education
In her story, The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey wrote of her Inspector Grant, "Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told." On this Mother's Day, we ponder detective fiction by women. What do these stories reveal about human relationships and complex social issues?
May 17
Our Better Angels
10:30 AM
Sarah Googe
This Sunday's service is a talk about reaching across the aisle to those on the other side. I don't have the answers - maybe not any at all - but I believe that we are asked, if we love our country, to try. We are asked to find a way to have a conversation, a non-judgmental, civil exchange of ideas, a search for answers, with people with whom we deeply disagree. I hope you will come not looking for the answer, but digging deep, asking the question, and maybe together we can help us all bring our better angels to the table.
May 24
Does Violence Redeem Us?
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Dr. Daniel Bassin and the TUUC Choir
I grew up with stories of the heroism of a great uncle who never returned from fighting in France in World War I. The Vietnam War divided the Unitarian church I attended as a child. Unitarian Universalists are not a pacifist faith tradition like the Quakers. But we are also not a war church—believing that violence is always necessary to redeem us and achieve a lasting peace. Today we ask questions about America's faith in war and how our Unitarian Universalist values inform our own understanding of war, redemption, and peace.
May 31
The Antidote to Worry
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education
For many years, Stephen Colbert's monologue on The Late Show served as an antidote, if only temporarily, to worry. It's hard to feel anxious and laugh at the same time. But Colbert's last show was May 21. This morning, I wonder what another antidote to worry might be...?