June 25, 2023 - “10:00 a.m. Worship Service from the UUA General Assembly”
We will view the UUA Service live-streamed at church
or you may view it from home via the link below.
June 18, 2023 - “Metaphors Matter”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
June 11, 2023 - “Lessons from Ted Lasso”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
June 4, 2023 - “Transcendentalism: Looking at Its Past to Understand Its Present”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Cara Lane
May 28, 2023 - “May Their Memory Always Be a Blessing!”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
May 21, 2023 - “Change, Grief, and Hope”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Dee Evans
May 14, 2023 - “Flower Communion Sunday”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
May 7, 2023 - “Receiving Generously”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
read by Mary Johnson
April 30, 2023 - “The Pursuit of Happines”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
April 23, 2023 - “The Shadow Side of Resistance”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
April 16, 2023 - “How To Make the Invisible Visible”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley (reading a sermon by Dr. Ronald Glossop)
April 9, 2023 - “Easter According to Mary Magdalene”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
April 2, 2023 - “Passover - A Call for Collective Liberation”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
March 26, 2023 - “We Are Not Our Own:
Further Thoughts on Unitarian Universalism as Restorative Theology”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
John Herndon
March 19, 2023 - “Finding Purpose in the Chaos”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
March 12, 2023 - “Creatively Maladjusted”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
March 5, 2023 - “To thrive is to resist!”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
February 26, 2023 - “The Vulnerability of Needing Each Other”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
February 19, 2023 - “Are we there yet?”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
February 12, 2023 - “Love and Revelation”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
February 5, 2023 - “Everyday Ethics for Unitarian Universalists”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
YouTube Video of Service is not available
Robyn Berkley
January 29, 2023 - “The tyranny and misogyny of Natural Law, a restorative theological reflection”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
John Herndon
January 22, 2023 - “Centering Our Bodies”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it later on YouTube
YouTube Video of Shared Service at Eliot Unitarian Chapel
Rev. Krista Taves
January 15, 2023 - “Grace in the Midst of Struggle”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
January 8, 2023 - “Making Room”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Dee Evans
January 1, 2023 - “Embracing Possibility in Times of Change” – a sermon by UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray
Church is closed today. You may view ithe Sunday Service (live-stream at 10:00 a.m. or later) on YouTube
Robin Berkley
December 25, 2022 No Service Today
December 24, 2022 - “Christmas Eve Vespers Service”
Church is open for Vespers Service at 5:00 p.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
December 18, 2022 - “Making Peace with UU Sources”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
December 11, 2022 - “Wonder as a Path to Liberation”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
December 4, 2022 - “Mindfulness and self-compassion:
developing a spiritual tool kit for hard times”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
November 27, 2022 - “Gratitude: For People, Places, and Things”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
November 20, 2022 - “Transgender Remembrance Day 2022”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
John Herndon
November 13, 2022 - “Annual Bread Service”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
November 6, 2022 - “UU Values & History”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
October 30, 2022 - “The Courage to Live Wide Awake”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
October 23, 2022 - “Belonging Ourselves Out of Loneliness”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
October 16, 2022 - “Reimagining the Narrative:
Why the Ancient Holiday of Sukkot Matters for UUs”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
October 9, 2022 - “Push Me Pull You: Holding Conflicting Ideas in Our Heads and Hearts”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
October 2, 2022 - “Unitarian Postcards from Transylvania: Thus Far the Lord Has Helped Us”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robert Kokenyesi
September 25, 2022 - “Are we a church or are we a congregation?”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
“Dee Evans
September 18, 2022 - “The Continuum Concept”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Paula Moore
September 11, 2022 - “Water Communion”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
September 4, 2022 - “Bees and Salvation”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
August 28, 2022 - “Our Commitment Legacies”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
August 21, 2022 - “The Emperor Really Does Have No Clothes!”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
August 14, 2022
The church service today has been canceled for technical reasons.
August 7, 2022 - “Reflections in Seaglass” by Rev. David Pyle
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Presented by Mary Johnson
July 31, 2022 - “UU the Vote 2022, Rebuilding Democracy One Election at a Time”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
John Herndon
July 24, 2022 - “The Change We Hope to Bring” by Rev. Phil Lund
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Presented by Jerry Johnson
July 17, 2022 - “Claiming Sacred Ground”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Krista Taves
July 10, 2022 - “When There Is No Justice:
What Jews and Enslaved People Can Teach Us About Living Under Legal Horror”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Rev. Dr. Claudia Hall
July 3, 2022 - “We Are Not a Theocracy!”
Church is open for Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m. or you may view it (live-stream or later) on YouTube
Robyn Berkley
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