Starr King ministerial student Dianne Daniels addresses “When the Call Chooses You” – when our sense of what’s right and what we believe spur us to action, to speak out, and head into the streets to protest and stand against the status quo.
Our pulpit guest illuminates ableism and helps us identify it in others and ourselves, so that we may actively respond and extend kindness and compassion both internally and externally in gracious ways.
In her GA Sunday worship sermon, Rev. Karen Hult uplifted the notion of ‘fugitivity’ as something many on the margins of our culture and in our faith have experienced. Let’s explore what the concept might mean for UUs who have embraced a non-creedal and perhaps, sometimes fugitive faith.
Meet Unete – a center for farm worker and immigrant advocacy in Medford. Since 1996 Unete has created a movement of farm workers and immigrants that strive to empower and enrich the lives of both groups. Covid outreach, legislative advocacy, cultural programing, and leadership training are a few of the programs they offer.
Courtney Neubauer, social justice chair of the Klamath UU Fellowship, reflects on the longtime Water Wars in the Klamath basin, recurring now amid the drought and the wildfires. She will contextualize the violence and seek a path to a wider circle, calling on our UU faith.
Doug Walker will join us for an update on the development of the Foundry Village, the new full service transitional housing center planned to open here in Grants Pass later this year. Come hear about this important step we are taking to make sure everyone in our city is sleeping at home.
4.8 million Americans will face mental health challenges this year, and our mental healthcare system is woefully unprepared to serve them. How might we UUs fulfill our mission with them, seeking justice and sharing compassion? Our pulpit guest is a longtime active UU and recent Starr King graduate.
Rev. Stephen Landale returns to share reflections on both spiritual Daily Affirmations and existential Daily Afflictions, from his experience as a Hospice Chaplain, and as a parent.
Illness, both chronic and life-threatening, may at times become a blessing. On her return visit to our pulpit, Nancy will focus on how we can allow pain and illness to walk hand in hand with us our our life’s journey through suffering to eventual liberation.
On this holiday Sunday, we invite each of us to tune in to the closing service from the UUA General Assembly last week. Include a little extra time this morning for this powerful 75-minute experience. “We need a demanding, inspiring faith and a love strong enough that it will not let us go.”
