Join our guest preacher, Rev. Dr. Gary Strichartz, as we explore the spiritual practice of listening with our hearts, past our ears and our thinking minds, where intimacy becomes a way of being.

This Sunday, we gather for our annual All Souls worship service in spiritual communion with our ancestors.

We all have wells we go to to refresh our spirits for all that life requires of us. A sabbatical and sabbath practices are times set apart for doing so, and I will be sharing why I envision my vessel of renewal as a cauldron. –Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein, Worship Leader

We are mostly very clear on what religious ideas and god concepts we reject. But it is crucial to our soul strength, and emotional and spiritual well-being for us to know and cultivate the holy of our understanding. Let us explore this together. To what does your heart and soul have everlasting reverence and loyalty?

Indigenous wisdom centers around the gift economy, where one’s status is determined not by what one accumulates but by how much one shares and gives away. We will be in conversation with the ideas of author, botanist and indigenous elder Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose books Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry are highly recommended by our ministers. #GiftEconomy #BraidingSweetgrass #UUCGL #SundayService

Our annual blessing of the animals. #AnimalBlessing #UUCGL

The Jewish High Holy Days give us an opportunity to think about what it means to be forgiving and forgiven within community.

An exploration of the complex relationship between empathy, sympathy, goodness and niceness. #SundayService #UUCGL

We tend to think of progress as happening in a line, hoping that it will proceed in an ever-upward trajectory. But there is another kind of progress, an inward path that is not linear but circular. We explore this wisdom path. #labyrinth #sundayservice #uucgl #beachlabyrinth #inwardpath #meditation