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​​​​​​​​​​​​September 2025

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September 7 | What Mischief Are We Gonna Do Next? 

In a time when we may feel politically powerless, small, or ineffectual, we could turn to despair. Or to the sort of mischief that chips away at the edifice of empire and brings a different sort of power to the small and the vulnerable. Let us imagine some good trouble-making together.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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September 14 |  Liberation as Reciprocity

As we dive deeper into this season of Liberation, let us consider what its cost and its value will be. Can we conceive of the world in terms of grace rather than transaction?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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September 21 |  The Anti-Prosperity Gospel

Does practicing liberation, for us, mean promising the opposite of a prosperity gospel? Where is the spiritual meaning to be found in knowing that–whether we are saved or not–we can’t be saviors? Maybe vulnerability is the cost of liberation, when we start from a place of power.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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September 28 |  Behold the Banshee

 Living through a period of great political unveiling and uncertainty, how might our ancestral grief practices be calling us? Join us as seminarian Meghan Garvey offers a reflection on grieving well as an essential nutrient for getting free.

— Meghan Garvey

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​​​​​​​​​​​​October 2025

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October 5 | Liberation into Wilderness

In a time when we may feel politically powerless, small, or ineffectual, we could turn to despair. Or to the sort of mischief that chips away at the edifice of empire and brings a different sort of power to the small and the vulnerable. Let us imagine some good trouble-making together.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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October 12 |  Life After Doom: Liberation

Brian McLaren's book, Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, helps us imagine a way forward through climate disruption. Let's take a broader look at "doom" and consider some different kinds of wisdom.

— Rev. Peggy Meeker

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October 19 |  Abolition Unfinished

We tend to talk about abolition as a finished project, a historical movement. But if we are not all free yet, can abolition be done? In what ways are we still called to be abolitionists today?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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October 26 |  God is Change: Annual Service of Remembrance

As we face the seasons changing, leaves changing, our clocks changing (next Sunday!), and the world turning round and round in a spiral of cycles, always different from the ones before, we take a moment to embrace the holiness of change itself. Join us for our annual service of remembrance and grief. People who attend are invited to bring pictures and mementos of those you love who have died for a shared altar. In story, song, and ritual, we will honor the truth and power of change in all its forms.
— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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*First Universalist has a long-standing tradition of having one Sunday sermon a month be presented by someone other than our minister. Our lay-led services give our minister well-deserved unscheduled time, as well as allowing us to share our individual spiritual journeys, experiences and diverse world views, which is an important part of our rich Unitarian Universalist heritage.