The election is behind us. We turn the page to the next chapter of our nation’s story. Where will we be in this story? What is our part in the unfolding drama? If this is a turning point, what comes next? https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520 Passcode: 183183Phone: +1 929 205 6099 Order of Service: uubinghamton.org/order-of-service/ … Continue reading Whither the Nation?
Join us for our First Sunday worship and Workshops. The monthly theme is “What Does it Mean to Be a People of Healing?” What does it look like for you when you find healing? https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520 Passcode: 183183Phone: +1 929 205 6099 Order of Service: uubinghamton.org/order-of-service/ First Sunday WorkshopsCheck here for descriptions and … Continue reading Retying the Knot
With this month’s theme of “Deep Listening,” I wonder about our perception of reality and how our brains are very good at filling in gaps with what we expect the world to be. I’ll share the story of magenta as an example. https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520 Passcode: 183183Phone: +1 929 205 6099 Order of Service: … Continue reading Do You Hear?
What is fascism? What’s Antifa? What is happening to our democratic republic? Let us consider these questions through the lens of our Unitarian Universalist values.Sermon text and video:https://douglastaylor.org/2020/10/18/my-faith-is-not-fascist-friendly/ https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520 Passcode: 183183Phone: +1 929 205 6099 Order of Service: uubinghamton.org/order-of-service/ UUCB Zoom Social Hour We also host a Zoom Social Hour at 11:45 after our … Continue reading My Faith Is Not Fascist-Friendly
I miss singing hymns with the congregation. Some of my favorite hymns are also prayers which strikes me as an interesting situation for a faith tradition that is a little ambivalent about prayer. Sermon text and video:https://douglastaylor.org/2020/09/28/prayer-song/ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5749237292 Order of Service: uubinghamton.org/order-of-service/ Douglas Taylor is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: Douglas Taylor’s Personal Meeting RoomJoin … Continue reading Prayer Song – different zoom room
Some people say forgiveness is the best thing in all situations. But is it? Aren’t there times when it is not the right choice, or something else needs to happen first, or it’s not our forgiveness to give? Sermon text and video: https://douglastaylor.org/2020/09/20/unforgiven/ https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US … Continue reading Unforgiven
The conversation about racism has shifted among UUs into a conversation about White Supremacy Culture. Why? What does it mean? And what’s new about this way of approaching racism?https://douglastaylor.org/2020/08/31/racism-re-branded/ https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520Passcode: 183183 UUCB Zoom Social Hour Each week in … Continue reading Racism Re-Branded
Online Worship started as a response to a crisis and has become a new normal. We’ve jumped started changes that ought to have taken us years to accept. What will the lasting impact be for us about how we ‘do church’ as a UU movement after this?https://douglastaylor.org/2020/08/31/worship-wave-of-the-future/ Order of Service here: https://uubinghamton.org/order-of-service/ https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Dial by your … Continue reading The Worship Wave of the Future
This Sunday, Douglas will offer a sermon from the ‘oldies but goodies’ file. This sermon is an exploration of Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things.” It was originally delivered back in 2013.https://douglastaylor.org/2020/08/16/the-heron-and-the-despair-2/ https://zoom.us/j/97989696520?pwd=ZG9NclFYQm9VV0NTb2VhNVM0R00xQT09 Dial by your location +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)Meeting ID: 979 8969 6520Passcode: 183183 UUCB Zoom … Continue reading The Heron and the Despair
Sermon text: https://douglastaylor.org/2020/06/21/thoreau-ing-it-all-away/ Sermon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0hivXvgOuw Henry David Thoreau spent 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days social distancing himself in a cabin at Walden Pond. What can we learn from him about navigating the distance we now travel as a society in pandemic times?
