Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango

— The Environmental Justice Team As the climate crisis continues, we address issues of appreciation for and stewardship of our one home.

We’ll explore the reasons for choosing classical music as a life’s work, concluding with a performance of a quintessential nocturne by Chopin. Click here… to join.

Join us for Christmas Eve beauty and light. Our choir will sing, and we’ll offer carols for you to sing at home. Click here… to join. Afterwards, we’ll gather in our cars at UUFD, enjoying the beauty of the luminarias giving some love to ... read more.

What small bright star do we seek in these darkest days? Can stillness guide our way? Click here… to join.

Let us celebrate the quiet, waiting season of Advent with the request to “grant us peace.”  Click here… to join.

Click here… to join. What if a thanksgiving table wasn’t just a table that we set on the fourth Thursday in November? What if a thanksgiving table is any place where you slow down for a little bit, to reflect on all the ... read more.

As we honor Transgender Day of Remembrance, we’ll look in particular at the hostility that Black Trans Women face. We’ll celebrate the beauty that is each one of us, healing wounds and finding wholeness. Click here… to join.

On this Sunday following the election, we’ll consider “the politics of the brokenhearted” and where we might declare our inter-dependence. Come, let’s heal together. Click here… to join.

Let us honor those who have gone on before us, with candle-lighting and naming. We will especially remember those we have lost in this past year, feeling their importance and their connection to us. Click here… to join

Love or Fear – A Choice to Be Made – Click here… to join How are we to be known in the world?  Where do we stand?  Do we choose to stand up in love or retreat in fear?

Keep Journeying  – Click here… to join Today we’ll recognize our newest members; recognizing the importance of making a commitment to a new faith home, especially in a time of pandemic. John Lewis told us, “The journey toward the Beloved Community is a journey ... read more.

Lessons from Indigenous Peoples Day – Click here… to join “To be an Indigenous person is to be engaged in relationships,” says All My Relations podcast team Adrienne Keene and Matika Wilbur. Let us forge connections and relationships where we live. We’ll feature art ... read more.

What Kind of Church Are We? – Click here… to join The way we gather and are organized, stems from an early agreement, made in 1637. What parts of that covenant lead us in times of trial?

The Poignancy of Living in These Days – Click here to join… Among so many other important things we note, we are also living in what is named in Judaism, “the High Holy Days.” These are days of taking stock, for making amends, to ... read more.

Love With No Exceptions – Click here to join… It’s been 250 years since John Murray preached his first sermon on American soil. Come, hear how Universalism has made a difference in many lives today.  

We Are All Longing To Go Home – Click here to join… We’ll celebrate our water communion today, gathering water from our homes, our pond, our river, our reservoirs. Take a picture of yourself and your water, send it to Rev. Katie (by 9/9), and ... read more.

Low Road Capitalism – Click here to join… American Capitalism has it roots deeply entwined with slavery in America; it is deeply interconnected to our political system as well. We have accepted this model and American corporations have continued to engage in violence and ... read more.

Question Box Click here… to join. What could the minister answer for you? Do you want to ask about life, death, God, history or mundane things? Email your questions so some answers will have a prepared answer, and a few ... read more.

Rooted, Inspired & Ready  Click here… to join Our faith is perfectly poised for such a time as this. Let’s take part!

Warnings Against Idolatries of the Mind and Spirit Click here… to join -Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris We’ll wrap our summer series with a look at the reminders of not venerating the uncertain. What have we learned through our exploration?

Heed the Results of Science: Joseph Priestley, Maverick Scientist Unitarian Click here… to join The discoverer of oxygen and soda water was not just incidentally a Unitarian. 

Heed the Results of Science: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Click here… to join Cecilia Payne blazed a trail into the largely male-dominated scientific community and was an inspiration to many. Her thesis “Stellar Atmospheres” was hailed as “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Physician  Click here… to join Influenced by the Unitarian transcendentalist movement, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in 1849.

Roots of Resilience Click here… to join. We will explore the meaning of resilience and the ways that the lessons of resilience live in us already, available to meet this moment and other moments of challenge ... read more.

Heed the Results of Science Click here to join… The 5th source of our living tradition, “Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the results of science, and warn us of idolatries of the mind and spirit” will serve as ... read more.

What are We Called to Do? As liberal religionists in the midst of pandemic, what is our calling? Click here to join… Faith Formation: Join us every Sunday for Summer Sunday Story Time at 4:00 here on Zoom. We’ll light a chalice, ... read more.

Within the Heart of the Flower: A Flower Communion Click here to join… Cut a flower from your home or grab one from the store, and bring it to our virtual gathering to bring to the front of your screen. We’ll remember why this ... read more.

Love and Joy. How are the children? And what can children teach us during difficult times? We’ll explore how children are coping with the pandemic and what lessons we can learn from them. click here to join…

The Art of Meaning click here to join… Faith Formation at 11:00 click here to join… Experiencing art (both creating and observing) helps us bear what George Bernard Shaw calls “the crudeness of reality.”

A Transformed Life click here to join… Zoom connection problems have been reported earlier this morning; please keep trying if your first connection attempt fails. This abridged service (followed by the Annual Meeting) reminds us of why people come to church.  Faith ... read more.

Parenting During a Pandemic click here to join… Faith Formation at 11:00 click here to join… Are you a parent who would like to offer a one-minute reflection on what parenting has been like during this unique ... read more.

Grief + Things that Feel Like It click here to join… Faith Formation @ 11:00 click here to join…

What Do You Need? How are you holding up? Let’s connect via Zoom worship. Click here to join…

Earth Day  Find something that represents the Earth and create your own altar for today’s worship. Click here to join…

UU ministers and congregations together exercise the practice of renewal through the ministerial sabbatical. What learning did we experience? How might that wisdom be extended in the months to come? Post-worship reflection time will include a slide show of the sabbatical trip.  

How does Unitarian Universalism support individual and group resilience through a holistic approach to building and living a personal theology?

As part of the larger Social Responsibility and Justice Team, we have made a commitment to Healing Racism. Recently reconstituted, let’s consider why this responsibility is critical to our mission. 

During this interim faith formation year we have been dreaming, experimenting, and testing. What have we learned? And how does trust and resilience guide it all?

The practice of hospitality is a shift in praxis. Truly practicing welcome means giving up control and allowing people and emotions that we consider “other” from ourselves to take up home and to teach us. We encounter the opportunity for this radical hospitality in many ... read more.

Come, find yourself in the spiritual odyssey of another member of this congregation. 

What does the world look like when we shift focus to the Taoist principle of non-striving? Can we be counter-cultural by taking it easy? 

Early 20th century Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes wrote, “When I Say God it is poetry and not theology.” Let us discover the language as April is Poetry Month. We'll create our own haikus today. 

SPRING FORWARD It’s Women’s History Month. Rev. Dr. Florence Buck advocated for education from her early days as a schoolteacher, high school principal, minister, and director of religious education for the American Unitarian Association. One of the first women ministers in America, Flo Buck’s accomplishments would ... read more.

Hallelujah, it's Easter! What does that represent for us as Unitarian Universalists? Can we find miracles in this day? Wear your Easter bonnet. 

Our mental health and spiritual endurance has been tested. It might be that all you can do right now is to keep on keepin' on, despite all that is coming at you. On this Palm Sunday, how might the ancient stories translate to what we ... read more.

We mark a year since online worship.  As we celebrate generosity and our relationship to making this a flourishing congregation, let's feel the joy this spiritual community can bring. After worship, all are invited to participate in Celebration Sunday's Dazzle Drive Through at the UUFD ... read more.

The verse sings out, “We shall be known by the company we keep.” We keep faith with the source of life, the community of resistance. We are a community of covenant even (especially?) in times of struggle.   The choir sings.

Members who took this class on “eldering” will offer to us wisdom from their journey. Come hear what age has blessed us.

What do we mean by the term “The Beloved Community”? How might our generous gifts get us closer to finding it?