Join us for another celebration of gratitude, gathered around the table together. With song and story, reflection and even a little food – our worship for all ages has something for everyone. We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy has been suspended and masking is now optional. Online information ..https://zoom.us/j/95471218370?pwd=aDNjcnhIb3ZSeHlHTjdwanh6c1g1dz09 Meeting ID: … Continue reading So All May Be Fed
W.H. Auden wrote “September 1, 1939” about WWII. Our work remains: to build solidarity, to uphold justice, to shine our light, and love bravely in a world too full of desperate loneliness and alienation. We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy has been suspended and masking is now optional. Online information ..https://zoom.us/j/95471218370?pwd=aDNjcnhIb3ZSeHlHTjdwanh6c1g1dz09 … Continue reading To Show an Affirming Flame
The Day of the Dead, Halloween, Samhain, and All Souls Day are all different cultural invitations into honoring the transition from life to death, of remembering loved ones whom we have lost. This Sunday we will host a Memory Tree ritual together for our First Sunday worship. We hope to see you in person! Our … Continue reading Memory Tree
They say every preacher has only one sermon they keep repeating and reframing and revising over and over. I think mine might be something about healing or maybe grace. Or more likely it is about loving and being loved (I am a Universalist, after all.) We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy … Continue reading All I Know, So Far
Rev. Darcey Laine (from Athens) and Rev Douglas Taylor (from Binghamton) Multi-Platform – In person Athens, In person Binghamton and on Zoom Our annual partnership service has Rev. Darcey and Rev. Douglas thinking about the many ways living beings are connected with one another in the great web of life. Together we celebrate the many subtle ways beings impact, … Continue reading The Great Web
Don Peretz taught Middle East Studies at SUNY-Binghamton from 1966-1992, retiring as Professor Emeritus. His doctoral dissertation was the first ever written about the plight of Palestinian refugees, following World War II and the declaration of the State of Israel as a political entity. Don, a pacifist, served in the U.S. Army and later volunteered with AFSC (the Quakers) to help resettle Palestinians in northern Israel. Don’s wife Maya was a Jewish … Continue reading Hope for the Holy Land – Prophets Among Us: Don and Maya Peretz
The Jewish High Holy days are a excellent time for non-Jews to also notice and attend to the work of forgiveness and reconnection. This First Sunday, with the theme of “Deep Listening” will be our invitation into the season. (Join us after service for Workshops!) We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy … Continue reading Saying The Hardest Word
Join us for the 2024 UU Climate Justice Revival in which we are called to “Reimagine Together: From an Extractive Age to a New Era.” This ‘new era’ needs our connections, our nourishment, and our vision for the blossoming future. We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy has been suspended and masking … Continue reading Prevailing Green
The International Day of Peace is the 21st. And wars continue around the world. Religion is mis-used and perverted into a tool to perpetuate war. We must call up the truth found in each of our various faiths leading us to peace. We hope to see you in person! Our COVID policy has been suspended … Continue reading You Did Not Create Us to Kill Each Other
We’re deep into the ‘politically divided’ time of the year. Many people struggle between taking a stand or keeping things calm, rocking the boat or going with the flow. It is one thing to be strident on social media or with your poster board at a rally. But how do we navigate ‘hot button’ issues … Continue reading How to Disagree with a Friend
