On Sunday, we enjoyed our Spiritual Home together. After hearing more of Dan and other members’ amazing feats in restoring and maintaining our beloved church, our Meditation Walk and Feng Shui Four Corner Blessings, congregants wrote reflections – appreciation, hopes, and suggestions. Honoring and appreciation for our church building, especially for the generosity and capabilities […]
Aloha members and friends! Growing up, my mother told us, “The one true evil is divisiveness.” Already a good questioning 12-year-old Unitarian (this was before we merged with Universalism), I questioned- how could divisiveness be the ONE true evil? There are so many evils! But then, like a good 13-year-old Unitarian, I thought about it. […]
What a wonderful week – from meeting with interfaith leaders from across the state, and two from the national InterFaith Alliance, Washington DC office, to our InterFaith service with exquisite music led by our Beth Beyers, and beautifully delivered by our pianist Noe Baladad and by our choir, to our New Member Orientation! We have […]
Our Social Justice Growth Our incredible, indefatigable, stalwart team of Marie Anne and Francine Less welcomes four new members to support our justice work in our larger community. We are thrilled to welcome Zach Fraser, Keif Ariola, Sorcha McCarrey, and Paul Davis to our expanded Social Justice team. Help for Us – Year 2 This […]
Sunday we gathered after Keola Whittaker’s moving message “The Thaw” for our first Sunday of the month Town Hall. We had much to discuss. Sue asked me to show the assembled our new website first. Our incredibly skilled office manager, Suzette, manages much! And she managed to do much to help our web developer Naomi […]
UU in our Larger Community Today (well, last night in particular) I hope you will join us on Sunday for “UU Heroes Then & Now.” Some of our own members and leaders were heroes in my book for bringing the ACLU Resistance Training to our sanctuary last night. It was full with over 100 attending! […]
We are Unitarian Universalists, guided by love and reason, aiming for peace and happiness – for all. What a challenging time to be us. To be UUs. Are you, like me, wondering how we can: Know enough to achieve deep understanding and considered awareness? Fulfill our role in our current environment of shocking abuses? […]
We are gearing up for the holidays! From the moving Winter Spiral, to UU Yule-Advent candles, to choir singing breathtakingly beautiful carols, to preparations for our “No Rehearsal Nativity Pageant,” the spirit is in the air! Please contact me if you would you like to help put on the pageant – it is going to […]
This past week has been a powerful celebration of community! From the Nu’uanu Valley Thanksgiving service with record attendance promoted by our own Marie Anne and others, to Thomas, Sorcha and our choir performing beautifully. To Crystal’s beautiful reading of Rev. Gary Kowalski’s Peace poem that seemed to bring all our faith communities together. I was […]
We are so fortunate to have Rev. Sam working with us for year 2 of Hope for Us! This is valuable support for our community and ourselves. Please take a few moments to ponder her questions in this survey, respond and nominate your self or others to be in the team of about 20 to […]
Beloved friends, What a joy to see the activity at our church! Forty-three folks are reserved for Thanksgiving! Nan P a wizard! Bring your favorite beverage, whatever it is. Sue Y-C says alcohol is allowed as we wish. There is still time to sign up HERE. In Religious Education visits the past two Sundays I found wonderfully […]
SUNDAY WORSHIP Click Here For Sunday Worship Room opens at 9:45 am, Worship begins at 10 am. Above is a link that has a password embedded in it. I encourage you to use this as it is the safest and easiest way to access the room. If you are calling in, here is how to […]
In a Flash After worship on Sunday, I did my normal routine: dropped Blake to get a sandwich by where we live and headed home. As I turned the corner to my circle by the University, I saw two police officers waving people away. I figured it was getting a little full from people parking […]
A Summer of Adventure and Sabbath As many of you now know, my time of ministry with this community is coming to an end. I know this is sad in many respects, and it is both an honor and a great gift that people are sharing the concerns and sadness they feel at my departure. […]
Mahalo to You All Aloha Friends, First and foremost, I love you all so much. I would not be the person I am without the unparalleled gifts this congregation offers the world. You have given me the incredible gift of inspiration, partnership and aloha for five years. Together we have been through a worldwide pandemic […]
Stars Align I read the news today, like a lot of you. Sometimes I wonder whether doing that so early in the morning is wise. I think I’ve mentioned the results of a study years ago that found people who do not read the daily news have a longer life expectancy than those who do. […]
Someday When I was very young, my aunt and uncle lived with three of my cousins in Virginia. I was living in Connecticut then. We took a lot trips south down the highway to see my cousins, and it was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about obeying other peoples’ rules when you’re […]
Real Candles “You should get real candles. You’re a minister.” I was at Bed, Bath & Beyond and my friend was helping me get some supplies. I explained that we light a chalice at church and that the electric ones last so much longer and are a lot safer in an old building. So when […]
The First Day The proudest I might ever have felt on the first day of school was all because of monsters. My shirt had monsters all over it and it buttoned up, like a big boy’s shirt. I also had orange shorts, which matched some of the orange in the shirt. It was quite a […]
Trigger warning: this is about having dental work done. For some people, even the thought of that is unsettling, so I wanted to be clear about what you’ll be reading if you continue. Piece of Work Isn’t the needle always longer than you ever expect? Also, its very presence was never mentioned. When I was […]
