Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Some claiming to be very religious, may not be very religious at all; while others who don’t consider themselves that religious, may be the most religious of all. If religion is just a set of ideas and habits, if it’s merely something ancient that’s been passed down to us, as it’s often considered, maybe the traditionalists have it right. But if it’s something unique to each one of us, something beyond our beliefs and habits, something genuine and new that can only belong to ourselves, then religion may be most profoundly present within those we’d least expect.

Religion and the Measure of All Things
Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. At its best, human welfare and fulfillment is already the point of most religions. Historically, however, this hasn’t always played out. Instead of being about devotion to a god, what if human welfare became the sole criterion upon which to determine the value of any religion?

Unicorns and Fairies: Exposing the Myths of Our Times
Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Is it possible for an entire society to be insane? Can we suffer a collective neurosis and share the same delusions? If so, if we corroborate each other’s “flights of fancy,” do they just feel normal to us? Do we maintain them without question; inanities like war, and greed, and oppression? What are some of the impossible beasts we’ve come to accept are real?

Many think most the world’s problems can be solved economically, by converting from Capitalism to Socialism, destroying Communism, or establishing income equality. So long as our priority is wealth rather than welfare, however, no economic system can solve the problems most impacting our lives. In … read more.

With all the talk of “taking back our country,” on both sides of the culture war, we must ask if enough hasn’t already been taken? The Country was taken from its first occupants. Others were taken from their country to be slaves. The rights and … read more.

It doesn’t seem possible to dwell upon the Earth without doing some damage, without, at least, the Earth needing to adapt to our presence as much as we must adapt to her. Yet this reality cannot justify the rapid exploitation and depletion of her resources, … read more.

Being right feels great! Being wrong, not so much. So, we tend to ignore everything counter to our own beliefs, making it difficult to consider we might be wrong, since we can’t imagine any other possibilities. But, thanks to philosophy, I’ve come to feel better … read more.

Who determines what makes it into the news, and why? When I was a TV reporter this was pretty much based on what we always covered—accidents, murders, scandals, and recurring events, almost with liturgical faithfulness. Mostly it was up to our news directors and producers … read more.

If the authoritarian mindset is mirrored by its punitive response to criminal justice, then ours is the most authoritarian nation in human history. As a result, many in our society, both conservatives and liberals, consider prosecution and punishment the appropriate, if not exclusive, response to … read more.

UUs often have an aversion to “churchy” words like church, God, faith, even the word, religion itself. Perhaps none sticks in the craw more than the word worship does. For many it conjures up images of crouching, cowering masses belittling themselves and shirking their own … read more.