This week, we will view segments of a service from Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was held on July 30 as part of the Preaching Along the Potomac services of this summer. We will open our usual Zoom meeting and will view the YouTube recording together. The order of service is attached to this … Continued

This week, we will have a watch party to view a sermon delivered last month at the First Dallas UU. We will open our usual Zoom meeting and will view the YouTube recording together. Please note that we have resumed our usual 10:00 am time. First Dallas UU presented a sermon series based on “This … Continued

This week, we will have a watch party to view a sermon delivered last month at the UU Congregation of Atlanta. We will open our usual Zoom meeting and will view the YouTube recording together. Please note that we will resume our usual 10:00 am time. The Church of the Ascension’s Episcopal congregation is returning … Continued

Note: All Services in July will be at 10:30 Worship Service for July 23, 2023 No Mud, No Lotus by Rev. Christin Green, Assistant Minister for Congregational Life at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax We will meet at the Church of the Ascension for a watch party as this service is livestreamed from the … Continued

Note: All Services in July will be at 10:30 Worship Service for July 16, 2023 Covenant: Forged in Forgiveness by Rev. Ali K.C. Bell, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation. As Unitarian Universalists we seek to live into covenant with each other. In our quest to live in covenant and to build and maintain relationships we … Continued

Note: All Services in July will be at 10:30 Worship Service for July 9, 2023 Interdependently UU  by Rev. Ali K.C. Bell, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Many of us are taught that we can’t ask for help without showing weakness. Others of us are taught that to be successful we must depend only on … Continued

Worship Service for July 2nd, 2023 Note: All Services in July will be at 10:30 Patriotism by Rev. Bill Sinkford, All Souls Unitarian Washington D.C. The Fourth of July is not just another long weekend and picnic opportunity. Our faith long prided itself on the involvement of Unitarian ancestors in the creation of this republic. … Continued

Throughout July UUFSM will participate in “Preaching Along the Potomac,” a partnership of neighboring UU congregations.  These hybrid services (via zoom and in-person at the Church of the Ascension) will be livestreamed by the host congregation, followed immediately by a UUFSM hybrid meeting for reflection of the sermon, joys and concerns, and coffee with conversation.

This Sunday, we are celebrating Flower Communion. The Flower Communion is an annual Unitarian Universalist ritual celebrating beauty, human uniqueness, joy, diversity, and community. Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Rev. Norbert Čapek of Prague, the ceremony was introduced to the United States by the Rev. Mája Čapek, where it has endured and is … Continued

This Sunday we will gather to share “Transformative Justice,” a message by Rev. William Sinkford, interim minister of All Souls Church Unitarian, DC as delivered on May 21, 2023. The idea of justice can be hard edged, inviting a focus on separation of the good from the bad, as if any of us were pure. … Continued