Recordings from the Sunday Religious Services at the Fourth Unitarian Society of Westchester in Mohegan Lake, NY. Rev. Peggy Clarke Minister
Susan Cody serves as the Baha'i representative on the Interfaith Council of Yorktown and Somers. She is a founding member of Race Amity of Northern Westchester and Putnam and has served for 30 years on the Friends of the Somers Library Board, Professionally, Susan teaches piano and voice and has been the music director for the NECS Youth Theater since its inception in 2006 as the Children's Theater Company of Peekskill.Susan Cody serves as the Baha'i representative on the Interfaith Council of Yorktown and Somers. She is a founding member of Race Amity of Northern Westchester and Putnam and has served for 30 years on the Friends of the Somers Library Board, Professionally, Susan teaches piano and voice and has been the music director for the NECS Youth Theater since its inception in 2006 as the Children's Theater Company of Peekskill.
The “Dorothy Bouman - Love Service” Dorothy Bouman Carole Ellis Gretchen Grimm Pam Parker Prepared Readings Congregational Impromptu Statements
Lane Cobb's service, Loss and Recovery - Learning from Black History
Ralph Wood on “Megan Epler Wood: Environmentalist, Film Maker, Author, Research Leader and Educator on Ecotourism and Sustainable Travel”
This Sunday was the first worship service of the new year with Rev. Lane Cobb. We will proclaim our intentions for the coming year and create a string of prayers to adorn our sanctuary. What do you want to manifest in 2025? For yourself? For your community? For our world?
UU Climate Justice Revival - Rev. Lane Cobb, Erik Brown and Vincent Arcery Join us for day one of the UU Climate Justice Revival which includes dinner along with a day of conversation and activities led by Rev. Lane Cobb, Erik Brown and Vincent Arcery.
Hybrid Service Standing on Sacred Ground - Rev. Lane Cobb
Keep Calm and Choose Joy - Rev. Lane Cobb
Hybrid Service What Gives Us Life? - Rev. Lane Cobb
Rev. Lane Cobb starts off the first service of our 67th year with our annual Water Ceremony. Please bring some water that has some special significance to them - we will also have water available for those who wish to participate.
1st Summer Service - Worship Associates Program: Discussion of the proceedings of the 2024 UUA General Assembly in Baltimore, MD Article II Revisions Approval - Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt Actions of Immediate Witness World on Fire: Humanitarian Work and Climate Change Solidarity with Palestinians Centering Love Amidst the Ongoing Impact of COVID-19
Sermon – Forward We Go Together This week, please join us for a (shortened) service led by Rev. Lane Cobb followed by our annual meeting.
Embracing the Journey - A Life Well-Lived - Rev. Lane Cobb Please join us for Mother's Day service and then stay for cake and coffee as we celebrate the birthdays of Dorothy Bouman, Marge Grimm and Adrienne Davies. Friends and family welcome! Please invite them to join us!
Love Up-Rising: May We Begin Again
This week's service presented by Erol Delos Santos on the topic of Pagpapalaya: Learning From Asian Liberation Theologies. As Rev. Lane noted, “Our guest minister this Sunday is a personal friend and former seminary mate. I am both excited for you to meet him and disappointed that I can't be there with you all this Sunday. I hope that you will come as you are able and lift him up.”
We hope you'll join us this Sunday for Women's Work - Embracing the Goddess with Rev. Lane Cobb. "The Divine Feminine is a way of describing a universal, archetypal energy associated with the nurturing, creative, and life-giving aspects of the universe. It is an energy present in all things and not limited to any particular gender, culture, or belief system." - Dr. Amy Hale
The UUSC began in 1939 when Rev. Waitstill and Martha Sharp took an extraordinary risk, helping refugees escape Nazi persecution in Europe. Today the nonsectarian committee advances human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates. 4th UU member Al Weger leads a service exploring the work and history of this vital organization.
Member Val Smith shares her experience at the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Re-Member Organization
Tony (He/Him) is a member of the Community UU Church of White Plains, Co-chair GLSEN Lower Hudson Valley; Former LGBTQIA+ Educator at The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center; Past Chairman of Alliance for Community Media of New York and Past Board Member of ACM North East Region 2008-2024
How immigrant families are dealing with the loss of their family pets in detention facilities
If we are to believe that our current society can be transformed into one where everybody can experience respect, equity and safety, then we must also believe that the first steps must be creating a world where Black women's voices are heard, their leadership is followed, and their lives are protected.
The Love Service Dorothy Bouman Vincent Irene Valarie and Will Gretchen Prepared Reading
Marge Grimm presents a service on ten things she has learned in her 80 years of life.
Rev. Lane's service this December Sunday is, "Season of Advent – The Dark and the Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
“The work of resettling a refugee and helping build a new life in a new country is a tremendous undertaking, and we welcome your support in this pressing humanitarian mission.” ~OpenArmsforRefugees.org Guest Speakers Ted Buerger and Zia Gulestani. Hosted by Gretchen Allene Grimm Ted Buerger is the cofounder of Open Arms for Refugees. He is the lead coordinator of the roughly 100 Open Arms volunteers who have welcomed and helped resettle 11 households and 35 persons to America since January 2022. Open Arms helps these New Neighbors find food and shelter, healthcare, education and ESL classes, jobs, and community. While most households resettled have been Afghan, two families are from Colombia and one is from Ukraine. Zia Gulestani is the Operations Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan with Too Young To Wed, which seeks to protect young girls from child marriage. When Kabul fell, Zia stayed to secretly maintain a network of safe houses for Afghan women hiding from the Taliban. Once discovered by the Taliban, he and his family of five fled to Pakistan. Open Arms welcomed the family at JFK Airport in June 2023, the ninth household that Open Arms has helped resettle.
Faith is taking the first step, even when you can't see the whole staircase" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Join us in person or online for a service with Rev. Lane Cobb. Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in - instead of calling them out Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
This Sunday, we celebrated the beginning of a new church year with our annual Water Ceremony, calling us back together after our summer hiatus. This ceremony was introduced into UU worship in the 1980s and it is celebrated at UU congregations around the world, as a symbol of our shared faith coming together from many different sources. Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
Welcome Home - Rev. Lane Cobb The universe is alive with opportunities to enjoy and celebrate the gifts of life that both challenge our sense of identity and remind us that coming home to ourselves is the most important thing. Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
A lay-led service presented by Fourth UU Member Ralph Wood, “Artificial Intelligence : Where We Are, Where Science Fiction Projects Might Go, and What Our Hopes and Fears for AI Say About Human Nature.”
Where No (Hu)Man Has Gone Before - Rev. Lane Cobb What do our stories about the future tell us about what is possible? Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
Humor has been described as lightheartedness, the willingness to accept life and ourselves with a shrug and a smile, and it gives a sense of mastery over a situation. Humor has been viewed as a way to look at a situation from a different point of view, to diffuse a crisis, and to provide an opportunity for increased insight and objectivity. Humor matters in our relationships. Humor matters in preventing the buildup of stress. Humor matters in our perspective of life, and it thrives between humanity's aspirations and its limitations.
Rev. Paul Tesshin shares some of the fascinating aspects of the extremely unique practice of Zen puzzles/koans: If a Zen priest talks at the UU and no one attends did they actually talk?
Rev. Lane L. Cobb offers a sermon called "Love Will Guide Us". Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
Letters to My Mother Earth - An Earth Day Celebration "When we recognize the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born." – Thich Nhat Hanh
Al Weger will lead a panel discussion dedicated to the UUA's Article II Commission Report recommendations.
Taken from the book, The Immense World by Ed Yong, Gretchen will focus on the meaning of “Umwelt” which has to do with the perspective from animals and how they sense the world.
Annual Easter Sunday Service. We explore three faith traditions, Ramadan, Passover and Easter as they are all celebrated on the same weekend this year.
Zen culture enjoys a rich history of teaching dharma through profound storytelling. Come and spend some time with Rev. Paul Tesshin Silverman as he shares some of his favorite stories and the meanings behind them.
“As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets cleaner and cleaner.” - Rumi Rev. Lane Cobb is an author, coach and ordained interfaith, inter-spiritual minister committed to educating and uplifting those seeking to live a more authentic, spirit-filled life. Her video dialogue Race Talk Revolution offers people of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to engage in courageous conversations about race and cultivate partnerships for exploring antiracist activism.
The "storm" or crisis we face may be of a personal, a public health, or even an institutional nature. What strategies can we use to develop and cultivate resilience? Can we be both prepared and peaceful? (Based on the work of Rev. Tracy Mehr-Muska) (3/8/2020)
How did this artist, a gay Jewish intellectual from Brooklyn, come, through his film and concert scores, to be identified with the Quintessential American music. Was he a “communist”? Did he live in Peekskill? Discover a few “simple gifts” as answers and in listening. (2/23/2020)
Personal reflections by members and friends on the influence of love in their lives. (2/16/2020)
"We affirm and promote journeying towards spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse, multicultural, Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions." What is the story behind this proposed Principle? What does it require of us? Do we really need another Principle? (2/9/2020)
The 3R’s are a way to increase Focus, Concentration, and Productivity. They are critical for success in all endeavors including spiritual practice. Rev. Silverman remained in Japan for almost 14 years and became the first non-Japanese person to become the Abbot of a Zen Temple in Japan. (1/26/2020)
You can't sugar coat it, a more complete telling of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Beth Woogen presents a service about civil rights activist Rosa Parks. (1/19/2020)
The Social Justice Committee presents thoughts about social justice actions and the concept of allyship vs. charity. (1/12/2020)
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, we take inspiration from the coming of Epiphany, January 6th, which celebrates the manifestation of the divine Christ to the nations. This is symbolized by the story of the wise men who come bearing gifts. In these times, what gifts do we bring to spread light, love, righteousness and justice? What stars guide our journey? Don't miss out on the Twelfth Night Cake with the hidden beans inside (A French Galette de Rois, or an Italian Panettone?) at our First Sunday of the month potluck .... who among us will be crowned king or queen for the day? (1/5/2020)
Inspired by the convergence this weekend of Solstice, the first days of Hanukkah, and the approach of Christmas, we'll take a look at appreciating the gifts of light and darkness. (12/22/2019)
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