The League of Women Voters has been empowering voters and defending democracy for over 100 years. The values that birthed the League of Women Voters are bedrock not only to the League but to our democracy and to several of our UU Principles. We’ll explore the circumstances that drove women to seek the vote, their understanding of the necessity for nonpartisanship, and their awareness that they must educate themselves —and others—before entering the voting booth.

Former Unitarian minister, Ralph Waldo Emerson, delivered a speech to the graduating divinity class at Harvard in July 1838. In his address, Emerson described the errors of historical Christianity and instead promoted a natural religion of the soul. The address has grown famous as one of the best articulations of Transcendentalist thought. Join us as we explore the address and what it means for UU history.

  Join us this morning for “Protecting and Restoring Land: For Wildlife. For You. For the Future,” with guest speaker JoAnna Darda. Jane Goodall once said “Only if we understand, can we care.” Red-tail Land Conservancy believes that learning to understand and care for our environment is the first step towards preserving and restoring the lands that we and wildlife call home. Red-tail offers opportunities to find joy, knowledge, and connection with our natural lands to people of all ages and levels of experience.

  Join us this morning for “Gnosticism,” with Rev. Joel. Gnosticism refers to an early form of Christianity that emphasized gnosis (knowledge) as the path of salvation. Join us as we explore Gnosticism’s theology, their place in the evolution of early Christianity, and why it matters.

  Join us Sunday for “Gnostic Gospels,” with Rev. Joel. Gnostic Gospels refers to a collection of scriptures discovered in the 1940s. Join us as we examine two gospels from the collection and what they mean for our understanding of early Christianity.

  Join us this morning for “Matter + Quantum = Mind + Consciousness,” with Chris Nelson & Kevin Purrone. Entanglement (‘spooky action at a distance’) and non-locality (the probability of matter existing in many places simultaneously) are two central concepts of quantum mechanics. Physicists and neuroscientists recognize that both occur in biological systems, including in our brains, and that these processes involve our consciousness. We will first discuss these topics and then we will facilitate a conversation with the congregation.

  Join us this morning for “Haitian Revolution,” with Rev. Joel Tishken. The Caribbean nation of Haiti became independent in 1804, following a 13-year revolution. The creation of an independent black nation echoed across the Americas, including the U.S. Join us as we learn about the history of Haiti and the impact it had on world history.

      Join us this morning for “Religion Is a Poetic Practice,” with guest minister, Rev. Derek Parker. Poetry is a basic human endeavor, and one with religious dimensions. Come and explore. Derek will bring us some help from the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, and the German physicist Max Planck.

    Join us this morning for “What Are People For,” with guest speaker Kelsey Timmerman. Regenerative agriculture isn’t an exciting new thing. Regenerative agriculture is an exciting old thing. As it’s been practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years, it is not centered on extraction but on relationships with the natural world; it is not just about farming, but about our relationships with science and technology, each other, and ourselves. While it’s grounded in the soil, it’s about human rights and environmental justice, about diversity versus monocultures, the pursuit of profit versus life. I started to see that thinking regeneratively is about so much more than growing food or checking a few boxes of farming practices. It’s something each of us could practice in our daily lives. It’s about reconnecting with the natural world during a time when many of us prefer to stream shows from the cloud than watch the clouds from a stream.