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Category: Worship Service

  • Mar. 22, 2026. Pirates of the YouTube

    Join co-ministers Rev. Jerry & Rev. Lynn Kerr to learn of their adventures starting up their own YouTube channel for the UU Congregation of Flint, MI, USA. Recent Posts Archives

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  • Feb. 17, 2026. How will AI affect your spiritual practices?

    AI (as large language models) is becoming increasingly woven into our daily lives. Our thoughts, longings, and our ways of making meaning are changing, with new questions arising around what it means to be human and to engage in “spiritual” matters. What trends are surfacing as our tools can seem to listen better than friends,…

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  • Jan 17, 2026. Seven Principles and Six Sources of UUism

    Many of us have chosen to remain guided by what had until recently been the Seven Principles and Six Sources of UUism. The first of those Sources speaks of “that transcending mystery and wonder […] which moves us to a renewal of the spirit.” In this service Rev. Shear explores what those words might mean for us in…

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  • Solstice 2025 Celebration Saturday Worship

    This moving video of the 2025 Holiday Reflections of the Season features greetings, best wishes, poems and readings from NAUA leaders across the continent. Not to be missed!! Recent Posts Archives

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  • Nov. 15, 2025 – Freedom From Want by Rev. Twinkle Manning

    This service reviews our capacity to free each other from all kinds of want – and our innate need to do just so. Twinkle is the contract minister for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine. She is an author, poet, retreat leader and liturgist, as well as a semi-retired television producer. She served for…

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  • Oct. 18, 2025. Welcoming the Stranger

    Rev. Alex Holt, a longtime Unitarian minister, led the October 18th NAUA Service. His theme was It is said we are a hopelessly divided country and perhaps we should secede to make us more unified. Really? Can we as liberal religious communities continue to welcome the stranger rather than push them away? How can that…

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  • Sept. 20, 2025. JD Stillwater: One Song – the Science of Oneness

    For millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything, from human bodies to…

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  • Aug. 16, 2025. Climate Consciousness – Monthly Service

    August’s worship service will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. Gail Sandlin will lead the August NAUA Service. She will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. We, in the NAUA, rely on pillars of science, justice, and faith to guide us…

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  • July 19, 2025 Service – Yin and Yang

    “As the Yin and Yang symbol illustrates, there is a piece of each in the other, teaching us the importance of empathy and understanding.” The July Service will be conducted by NAUA’s worship team. The theme will be “Yin and Yang: How is it possible to have opposites come together, and if they are together,…

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  • Jun 21, 2025 – Two Views on Nature by Dr. Gary Nelson

    The June Sunday Service brings together the scientific view of nature, along with the mystical and spiritual view, with a sermon by Dr. Gary Nelson. Dr. Nelson’s training in electrical engineering and applied mathematics encouraged views of the cosmos as mindless, meaningless matter in motion. However, his great-grandmother was Native American, and he grew up…

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