UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES
THEME FOR FEBRUARY: “EMBODYING RESILIENCE”
February 1
Growing Today, Building Tomorrow
10:30 AM
Andrew Hager, Ellie Hughes, Tony Bonta, Edgar Allan and the Poe Boys
In a time of political uncertainty, TUUC is a growing community that nourishes resistance. As we push for social justice, we embrace the marginalized and work to bend the moral arc of the universe. To do this, it takes commitment. Today, we kick off our joint Stewardship and Capital Campaigns. (The former is the foundation of our annual operating budget. The latter will allow us to make our building accessible to more people.) The future starts here!
February 8
The Well Of Grief
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Dr. Daniel Bassin, Music Director and the TUUC Choirs
This month we reflect on embodying resilience. Perhaps no human experience asks us to embody resilience more than the death of a loved one. Today we reflect on loss, love, and what we find at the bottom of, what the poet David Whyte calls, “the well of grief.”
February 15
Resilient Love
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Dr. Daniel Bassin, Music Director and the TUUC Choir
We need relationships, friendships, and community connections to help us withstand and recover from day-to-day challenges and adversity. Our Unitarian Universalist values place love at the center. But this cannot be the kind of sweet love found in some cards for Valentine’s Day. It needs to be resilient love that makes us stronger. On this Sunday following Valentine’s Day and preceding President’s Day, we explore resilient love: for ourselves, for one another, and for our country.
February 22
Remembering Difficult Knowledge
10:30 AM
Rev. Dr. Fredric Muir, Dr. Daniel Bassin, Music Director
The process of disremembering so-called “difficult knowledge—history that makes some uncomfortable—started years ago and is now moving forward at breathtaking speed. As we observe the 200th anniversary of the Unitarian Association and move toward our nation’s 250th anniversary celebration, what do we need to remember as citizens and as Unitarian Universalists?
Fredric Muir (he/his) is Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis. For decades he has served the Unitarian Universalist Association in several capacities, most recently as the Interim Director of U/U Global Connections. Since 1994, he has been the UUA Ambassador to the UU Church of the Philippines. He recently completed researching and writing about the roles that Unitarians and Universalists had in the American conquest, occupation, and colonization of Hawai’i and the Philippines from 1896-1946 described in his book Benevolent Intentions. Rev. Muir will be signing copies of his book after worship.