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Living Our Mission: OWL Training and UUA Board Retreat

Dana Poss, UUCA’s youth programs coordinator, along with 3 other UUCA members, attended a UUA training to become OWL facilitators for youth in 7th – 12th grades. OWL, or Our Whole Lives, is a lifespan series of sexuality education curricula that begins in kindergarten and goes through adulthood. It helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual [...]


The Blessing of the Animals Sunday Readings


This I Believe

JANE HENLEY THIS I BELIEVE: I believe in the sanctity of the world and the limitlessness of the universe, without beginning or end. I believe in the power of infinity. I believe in the conservation of energy and matter, from breath to breath and ashes to ashes. We were born of star dust and ancient [...]


Readings and Writings on To Kill a Mockingbird

Rev. Marti Keller and the UUCA Women’s Writers Group Call To Worship – Laurie Renfro As we spend time with each other and the great American classic by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, let us appreciate we are living in a time that welcomes all races to this place of worship. And may [...]


Letters to Lisa: The Joy of Sacred Friendship

Rev. Marti  Keller August 8, 2010 At the end of May, I flew off to Trumansburg New York via Syracuse on a narrow aisled 50 seater plane, landing in a  Spartan airport with just a sports bar,  a pizza stand and a candy, gum and mass paperback  bookstore. I got off that small, bumpy [...]


From Mess to Mosaic

How many of you know Hildegarde Grey?   She’s a long time member of our congregation.  She couldn’t be here this Sunday, so to make sure you know who I’m talking about, here’s her picture. She looks a lot like me, doesn’t she?  By a show of hands, how many of you think this is [...]


Holy Conversations: You Should Have Been There

You should have been there. That was what the buzz was among those UUCA members and staff who traveled to Minneapolis last month to attend the annual General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA). For some of us self-confessed GA junkies who have been going for quite a while, these gatherings [...]