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Creating loving community • Inspiring spiritual growth • Encouraging lives of integrity, joy, and service

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What Is Our Chalice?

Rev. Michelle Collins preaching, Worship Associate Bill Brown

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Rev. Michelle Collins, preaching. Worship Associate Bill Brown. At the start of each of our worship services, we light a chalice. So does almost every other UU congregation. Today we’ll explore where this symbol and ritual comes from and what interpretations it carries now.

Topics: Holding History

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Special Events

  • Personal Theology: Spiritual Reflections about the Climate Crisis, Murshid Kiran Rana
    • 12-10-2023
  • Holiday Fair
    • 12-10-2023
  • Messiah Sing Along
    • 12-10-2023
  • "What I Wish My Parents Knew" Film Screening
    • 12-12-2023

Next Service

  • Listening for the Deep Dark
    December 10, 2023 at 11 amRev. Marcus Liefert preaching, Worship Associate Karen Elliott

    In Person, Facebook Live and YouTube. As we light the Hanukkah candles and stay up tending the solstice fire, we remember that while our holiday rituals lift up and celebrate the light, they also beckon us toward paying attention to the dark.

    In Person Coffee Hour
    Join us in the Social Hall for coffee and a snack or light lunch.

 

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This church occupies land in Huchiun, the unceded territory of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. We understand that we continue to benefit from the seizure and occupation of this land. We acknowledge and embrace our responsibility to take restorative action. We affirm that this is deeply felt and commit our congregation to be in right relationship with Indigenous communities, aligning in solidarity, supporting Indigenous projects, and caring properly for the land.

Conversations with the Sacred
A Collection of Prayers

Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Jennifer Kelleher, 2020
Skinner House Books

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