Sunday Service: "A Journey to Xibalba”
May 31, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: John-Paul Chaisson- Cardenas
A Testimony about the Loss and Rebirth of Agape centers on pluralism as a sacred calling from the Creator. Drawing on his life story, woven alongside the Maya journey into Xibalba, it shows how communities lose their way when fear of difference replaces the love of neighbor. Yet even in darkness, the Creator walks with us, urging us to confront the idols of supremacy and exclusion. Emerging from the depths, we rediscover that justice is reborn by honoring many peoples, many truths, and many ways of being. This is a call to rise as a community where every child of the Creator has value and where love becomes the remedy to hate and exclusion.
Sunday Service: “Oh, My God!”
May 24, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson
Let us enter one of UU’s most challenging conversations: theological language, how we say what we believe. Can we talk openly about God in a community where some find the word sacred and others find it alienating? We will look at how the world shapes up today in beliefs and language about God– across Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim faiths. Diverse voices from our congregation will share their personal understandings—from divine presence to humanist ethics—demonstrating that we don’t have to think alike to love alike.
Sunday Service: "Not My Table, Hun!"
May 17, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Pastor Keola Whittaker
Some of the best theology arrives unannounced, like the words of a waitress who knew exactly what was hers and exactly what wasn’t. We will explore our kuleana and what happens when communities of conscience try to tend every table in the room until there is nothing left. Funny, honest, and a little bit freeing — this is a sermon for anyone who has ever said yes when every part of them wanted to say no.
Sunday Service: "Mothering Not Othering"
May 10, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson, with Jim LoPresti, Martina Queenth, Nancy Schildt, Gabe Tiogangco
For Mother’s Day, each of our pastoral care team members will consider how we have been cared for, how we have cared for others, and how our loving, respectful caring can build health, resilience, joy, and progress for ourselves and our community.
Sunday Service: "From ‘Right' to Related: Reimagining Empathy"
May 03, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Sunday Service: Revolutionary Optimism
Apr 26, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Zac Fraser
Revolutionary Optimism; the intersection of Resilience and Faith, and Resistance as an act of Love. A lifelong Unitarian Universalist and professional revolutionary speaks on the role his spirituality plays in radical politics. Please join us afterwards for lunch – we are inviting other progressive groups in the community and hope we can engender some collaborative ideas to protect our way of life (see flyer below).
Sunday Service: "Hearts, Minds, and the Soul’s Continuum: From Youth to Elder"
Apr 19, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Time reshapes the mind. The electric urgency of youth slowly transforms into a more spacious, nuanced way of seeing and caring. Youth brings quick leaps, bright risks, and a world already wired and glowing; age brings lived experience, pattern‑recognition, softer edges, and a different kind of courage. Between them lies distance or a tangle of misunderstanding. Let us learn to appreciate our own and the other’s place in this continuum.
Sunday Service: The Holiness of Silent Saturday
Apr 12, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Pastor Keola Whittaker
The week after Easter, we turn our attention to a day the church often skips: Silent Saturday. The day between the cross and the empty tomb, when the story has not yet resolved. Many of us know Silent Saturday not as a day on the calendar but as a season of life – our own long middle, waiting, the not-yet. This service offers a word of welcome to all who are still in Saturday. You belong here. We discover together that even the waiting is holy ground.
Sunday Service: Springtime Charm and Fierce Resistance
Apr 05, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson
Following weeks of storms and flooding, with streams and aina saturated, and families are displaced, our hearts are tender. Yet now the bright insistence of spring inspires, comforts, and brings hope. We will honor the beauty that returns after the waters recede and the spirit of ohana that has activated generosity and volunteers. Facing the effects of the floods and the threats to normalcy in our nation, we will recommit to standing with those affected by our recent floods or threatened with loss of rights or safety. Please bring a flower to share.
Sunday Service: Only Connect - Prose and Passion, Self and Soul, Eros and Agape
Mar 29, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson
We live as if we are separate — divided by religion, race, ethnicity, language, country, state, sex, gender, body and spirit, by reason and desire, by the love we earn and the love we freely give. But the poets and mystics have always known otherwise.
Drawing on the prophetic imagination of William Blake, the luminous symbols of W.B. Yeats, and the quiet revolutionary epiphany of E.M. Forster, this sermon explores the ancient and urgent truth beneath all spiritual traditions: that the fragments are the illusion, and the connection is the reality.
A Japanese sword wrapped in a court lady’s torn silk. A marriage of heaven and hell. A house that holds what modernity keeps trying to divide. Three writers. One insistence.
Across all people. Across all beings. Only connect.
