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September 2026​​

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September 6 | Change the Words...Change the Outcome
The power that our words have to change things going forward—Tom Williams, Kitty Forbush, and Patti Goodwin will be exploring this topic for their annual Labor Day service.
— Kitty Forbush, Tom Williams, & Patti Goodwin

September 13 | Into the Well: Water Communion
“This is no time,” as Rev. Susan Frederick Gray put it, “for a casual faith.” The world (and our church) is changing, but we have a deep well of faith to return and return to in times of upheaval. Come to the well this Sunday as we celebrate our annual Water
Communion, and please bring some water from a source that’s special to you—a river or lake, your home, a pet’s water dish even.
— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

September 20 | Atonement Economics
Our culture carries the story of wrongdoing as debt and punishment as payment, but how has this story of the economics of harm harmed us? And how can we move into new ways of healing?
— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

September 27 | Not an Empty Box − New Member Ceremony!
Ours is a faith of substance and power, but why do we so often talk about it like it’s an empty vessel, into which anything can be poured?
— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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October 2026​​

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October 4 | Whose Bones Do We Carry?
Our ancestors—familial and spiritua—have given us so much that we still carry. Which inheritances feel like gifts? And which feel like heavy baggage?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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October 11 | We've Only Just Begun
In an age of instant everything, what does it mean to be new at something? Against the tide of urgency, how might our ways of the past anchor us as beginners? 
— Meghan Garvey

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October 18 | Creation Unfolding
The stories we carry about how things came to be are always stories about who we are right now. Our origin stories are always pointing to an ever-unfolding fount of creation.— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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October 25 | Inside That Monster 
What do we carry underneath all the costumery and artifice we put on? Who are we under what we show the world? And how do we get to what’s real?

— 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.