Curious Before Critical

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In keeping with this month’s focus on Curiosity, we’ll take a look at how remaining open and curious can lead to new ideas and new learning, while being critical and quick to an opinion can shut us away from exciting new experiences. Join us for a Sunday that celebrates the art of asking good questions, … Continued

Curiosity! A Path to Discovery

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The super-popular Poetry and Music Service returns! Our beloved Davies Ensemble will be just one ingredient in this cornucopia of poetry, spoken word, and music offered up by the Davies community. All performances will center on our monthly theme of Curiosity as a “path to discovery.” The Davies Ensemble will be provide the music for … Continued

The Prophetic Ideal in Reform Judaism

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Continuing our year-long focus on the world’s largest religions, we welcome Rabbi Steve Weisman, who has served as the spiritual leader of Temple Solel in Bowie for 19 years. A 1991 ordinee of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, from which he also received a D. Div., honoris causa, in 2016, Rabbi Weisman … Continued

The Beauty Game

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Beloved author Ursula K. Le Guin writes “I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care who they hurt. I hate it when I see it making people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poison themselves.” Join Rev. Norm and Music Director … Continued

Out and Proud!

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Celebrate LGBTQ Pride in this joyous, intergenerational service! We’ll march in our own Pride Parade, sing “We Are Family!” with the Davies Choir, revel in sacred texts from queer poets like Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman, and pay tribute to all those who paved the way to freedom. Knowing the work is far from over, … Continued

A Common Beauty

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As we approach the end of the church year and celebrate the congregation’s many accomplishments, we recognize the deep and profound beauty of our community. This Sunday we’ll dedicate ourselves to our newest members, commission our General Assembly delegates, and lift up the joyous welcome offered to everyone who walks through our doors.

The Buddhist-UU Path

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Unitarian Universalism and Buddhism have a rich shared history, and many UU’s are also Buddhist or subscribe to general Buddhist values. Using a Zen story as his text, Ryan Zento Weeks will explore the intersections between Buddhist and UU faiths, and the ways that their different practices can complement one another. We conclude a year … Continued

Forward to the Fourth

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What does America's "4th of July" celebration mean to you: to your sense of freedom, pride, and  patriotic obligations; to your aspirations; to your discomfort, suspicion, and fear? Dr. Christopher Bell returns to the Davies pulpit to explore these questions and more as we approach this iconic but complicated American celebration. Dr. Bell is an … Continued

A World of Faith

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Newly returned from the General Assembly of our worldwide faith movement, Rev. Norm shares his thoughts on what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist at this moment in human history. How do centuries of tradition sustain us – and how do they hold us back? Where does hope lie, and what drives us forward … Continued

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