Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Breaking Bread Together Art and Poetry Sunday! The Internet can create an illusion of community, but it is through in-person relationships that we truly develop a passion for life. By engaging with a community of caring individuals, families have the opportunity to expand their support network. This Sunday, we will gather in small groups with creative intentions. We will start with a chalice lighting and a song. You will choose an interest area with a small group […]

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations This is the topic of today’s guest speaker, Jimmy Recinos, who for ten years has been a very active member of the Los Angeles community in which he lives. His main areas of interest are on policy making related to gentrification and housing, LA City and County elections, and California history. Jimmy Recinos is the founder and Executive Director of Quien Es Tu Vecindario. Also known as JT, The LA Storyteller, Jimmy […]

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations There is no question why observances such as New Year’s or the different Independence Days are celebrated around the world. Others, like National Ice Cream Day, might be thought to exist only if they continue to benefit the economy. However, encouraging and uplifting the joys that others find in these moments can also be an important part of the observance. Jake Hearen [Blackfeet / Sámi] grew up in Austin, TX before moving […]

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Refreshments6:30 pm – Continuing Conversations A sermon titled “This Gathered Community: A Company of Strangers,” originally delivered in 1996 by Reverend Barbara Child, Interim Minister at SepulvedaUU from 1996 to 1997, will be presented. Though Reverend Child won’t be present, the words she shared with us nearly thirty years ago continue to remind us of who we are and what community means to us. Before becoming a Unitarian Universalist in 1996, Reverend Child taught English at Kent […]

Monthly Theme: Summertime ManifestationsWhere: Center for Spiritual Living, Zoom: Sanctuary The Sunday Experience4:30 pm – Welcome and Hospitality5:00 pm – Evening Service (ZOOM Opens)6:00 pm – Breaking Bread Together We talk about our immortal souls, but in 1951 there was, and still is, a superwoman who changed form but not the way you might think. When a mystifying and unexplainable occurrence happens, how do we, as Unitarian Universalists, make sense of it? Teri Ismail has a Master’s Degree in Human Development. She was a Director of Religious Education for Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society for over 10 years. She was a Mobil Gas station […]