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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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November 2025

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November 2 | Risking a Rest - Pajama/Cozy Clothes Sunday!

Rest is an essential need for all living things, but when we’re caught up in a system of over-production and over-consumption, rest can feel like a risk. How do we reclaim our need to rest?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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November 9 |  The Cost of Community

What is the cost of community care? And in this moment of turmoil and upheaval, what do we risk if we fail to cultivate it?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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November 16 |  Stone Soup

Join us for this multigenerational story service, where we retell the folk story of Stone Soup and wonder at how the sum of us all together is worth so much more than each of us, alone.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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November 23 |  Who Are We Willing To Risk - Trans Day of Remembrance

In observance of Trans Day of Remembrance, we ask ourselves, whose risks make us all more free? And whose bodies and lives are we willing to risk?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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November 30 |  TBA

TBA

— Petra Page-Mann

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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.