Beyond Beloved Conversations: Resource Library

Beyond Beloved Conversations: Resource Library

Articles: Books:  Television miniseries:  PBS has several documentaries about sexism, including: Movies: Youtube: Ted Talk: Movies That Tell Our Stories: (April 2024) Disney+ Launchpad (These are short stories that have lots of intersectionality): Immigration (These are immigrant stories): _________________________ Ability Asian Gay/Lesbian Latino Trans Black

Beyond Beloved Conversations: Syllabus

Beyond Beloved Conversations: Syllabus

Beyond Beloved Conversations is an online program designed for UU’s and others who are navigating the challenges of dismantling the linked oppressions in a congregational context. Topics covered include: This program gives participants an opportunity to learn more, consider and discuss these issues from different angles and perspectives, to try on some new ideas, to ask some hard questions of themselves and/or each other, and to share some of the concerns these issues raise for them as they work for transformation in their own lives and in their congregations. Details Type Description Name Beyond Beloved Conversations Authors Gordon Clay Bailey, […]

House Party!

Register Today! We are having a house party at a private residence in Sunland, CA. It will be outdoors. Come and join the fun for laughter, games, and conversation! Contact Teri I for details, or she will be calling you. Lunch and drinks are included. 

Making a Chalice

Making a Chalice

Did you know you can you make a chalice out of a pot? This Sunday service, we’ll provide the materials for your children to decorate a chalice and have it to light at home. Here is a link so you can watch a Youtube video of the book, “A Cup of Light,” to learn more about the chalice and how to incorporate the lighting of the chalice at home with your family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWi59qHEg8. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Teri I for more information. We hope to see you and your whole family! (Pictured is a chalice […]

Show Me the Love, Shared Ministry as the Way Forward

Show Me the Love, Shared Ministry as the Way Forward

Monthly Theme: Love as EquityWhere: 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 Congregational life is challenging. Having an ability to understand and communicate with others takes skill and desire. Building a Shared Ministry within Unitarian Universalism is the way forward and love must guide us. Join us as we bravely step forward and show one another our capacity to love. NOTE: This will be a “Full Community Celebration” with The Mountain Top UU and UUs for Racial Justice. After the Service, we […]

Equity Theory in Congregational Relations

Equity Theory in Congregational Relations

Monthly Theme: Love as EquityWhere: 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 So imagine all relationships are equal and fair. Nice thought, right? Now, let’s look more closely at equity theory, which suggests that people are more satisfied with a relationship in which there is equal give and take by both parties. Let’s come to SepulvedaUU ready to imagine a congregation and a life filled with people getting what they need because everyone is doing their part. All are invited on Sunday evening […]

Love as an Equitable Act

Love as an Equitable Act

Monthly Theme: Love as EquityWhere: 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 How do we love each other? Some of us can enumerate the ways. Still others may struggle to show how they tangibly love themselves, their families, their spiritual community. Let’s look at loving one another with a focus on equity. We are our fellow creatures keepers. Let’s talk! Join us as we open up the annual commitment to being a Welcoming Congregation. All are invited on Sunday evening at 4:30 pm […]

A Word from Rev Gordon

May 2024 Theme: Love as Equity Can we talk; or at least engage in a dialogue about something that is on my heart. I’ve been thinking about Investing your time with people and the fact that it comes at a cost. When you go to visit your relatives, go to dinner with a friend, or stay after work to talk with someone you are investing your time with them. You are giving of yourself and I wonder how often it is a selfless act? I am a counselor, a teacher a minister a chaplain. So much of my life is […]