Paying Attention to Paying Attention: How to Break the Spell – Part One Who seeks to control your mind… your thoughts… your emotions… your sense of reality? There are those who profit in the billions from keeping you a prisoner of fear and anxiety. These are those who want you to stay disconnected, mistrustful and … Continue reading Paying Attention to Paying Attention
Sunday May 8 is officially recognized as Mother’s Day. Some of us greet this day with great joy. And this is a true blessing. But some of us encounter this day with more sorrow than joy and it can be a day that triggers a deep sense of sadness. Of pain. For those of us … Continue reading A Tender Conversation on Mother’s Day with Rev KB
Join us in the sanctuary or online this Sunday, for a healing message and music coming to us from the UU Service Committee, an organization within our faith tradition that has truly lived into global interconnectedness since their founding during World War II. The UUSC has recently been a connecting thread guiding us in how … Continue reading Global Community – UUSC Justice Sunday
On Sunday March 6 we will be opening the doors of the Sanctuary and of Fellowship Hall for our 10:15 am service while also providing our usual live stream on our YouTube page to welcome our UUCUC members and friends for our first hybrid Sunday. Whether you join us in-person or online our Pledge Sunday … Continue reading Wear bright colors to help celebrate at the Pledge Sunday Hybrid Celebration
On Sunday February 20th Reverend Karen Bush will be joined by UUCUC Board of Trustee’s chair Becky Densmore and REE chair Jenny Hunt as together we explore the magic that is throughout our covenantal life here at UUCUC. This will be the second Sunday in our Generosity campaign as a congregation. We hope you will … Continue reading Renewing Our Covenant …
So many of us are struggling during these dark “days “ of Covid- cut off from so much of how we have found replenishment in our lives.But as they say “necessity is the mother of invention”.On Sunday, February 6 Rev KB will lead us as together we will hear inspiring personal stories of creative and … Continue reading Silver Linings In the Covid Years
Sometimes I find myself feeling depleted … exhausted… drained… from all that is reality in these weeks… months… now years… under the dark shadow of Covid.Nothing is as it was.Almost none of my favorite familiar places and spaces I used to love to go to can I make easy assumptions about safety. I just can’t. … Continue reading America’s Original Sin: Confronting the Racist Within
Seasons of Life As many of you may have seen in her letter sent on Wednesday, our Lead Minister, Rev. Florence Caplow, will be resigning from UUCUC for health reasons in early January. She will be speaking this Sunday on the ways she has seen that just as in nature there are summer seasons of … Continue reading Seasons of Life
There are different kinds of battles in this life. The presence of veterans among us reminds us to remember those who served our country at a tremendous cost to themselves Many paid a high price that has profoundly impacted them in mind, body, and spirit. Too many others paid the ultimate price. Yes. There are … Continue reading Reflections in the Mirror…Friend or Frenemy
On Sunday October 10 at 10:15 am come with our UUCUC Consulting Minister, Rev KB, as she takes us to the countryside to the farm and prairie where she grew up two miles south of Urbana. With a panoramic view of the expansive western skies nearing sunset we will sit (virtually) in the tall prairie … Continue reading Homeward Bound
