Poet Jane Hirshfield’s poem was published by the Academy of American Poets on inauguration day 2017. In it, she spoke to the ways that what we commit to matter. As we enter into this longed-for new start of 2022 (because every new start is a good start these days!), join Rev. Leslie Takahashi and Rev.…

The Sacred in All Things: A New Year’s Service.  Join Rev. Leslie Takahashi for a service of ritual and renewal and we greet 2022. We will take some time to engage with Shinto teachings about the presence of a sacred spirit in all things.  If attending on-line, have a small bowl of water, paper and…

LIVESTREAM ONLY!  Join Intern Minister Michael Macias as we explore the force that calls us into relationship with each other and with the greater community. Let us contemplate what it means to be “a religion of the heart.”

 Holiday Pageant – featuring Our High School and Middle School youth and directed by Marena McGregor.

Please join Rev. Rodney and the Worship Team as we use ritual and music to express happiness on the outside and cultivate joy on the inside! We will take a special Share the Plate collection for Hope Solutions, Inc. on this day.

Is it truly the latest gadget which will make us happy? Is it really having things be exactly as we ask? Join Rev. Leslie to focus on our true wishes for this holiday season and to user in a spirit of intentional contemplation for the last weeks of this unprecedented 2021. 

Reflections on Gratitude and Abundance. Each year on the last weekend of Thanksgiving, we celebrate a version of the communion which is part of the Unitarian tradition. If you can help out with this ritual, please email worshiphelp@mduuc.org as we will need extra ushers for our 2021 adaptation of this celebration of community. 

As we enter into this season of winter holidays, repair and reconciling may be on our dance card. How do the teachings of the wisdom traditions about forgiveness and what it is and it is not enter into this time when we have the opportunities for meaningful connection?  Join Rev. Leslie Takahashi and intern minister…

Too often we discount the skills and knowledge that those who have survived hard things can bring. Join Rev. Leslie Takahashi for this service where we will also mark the costs of war.

Please join Rev. Rodney, Intern Minister Michael and the worship team as we look at our Universalist past and how our living tradition frees us from the problematic concepts from the religious right.

Each year we celebrate this day with ritual and presence. Come and gather together on this year in which so many have been lost to death and so many are in our hearts. Those who have lost someone since 2019 are invited to process with a candle—to participate, please contact michael@mduuc.org and meet them on…

Please join Rev. Rodney and the worship team as we explore what it means to “bind together” in religious traditions and how Covenant plays a critical role in how we treat each other!