Preacher: Rev. Jolie Olivetti

  • Finding Hope Once Again

    In today’s service, in honor of the Christian holiday of Easter, we will consider what the story of Jesus’ resurrection means to us as Unitarian Universalists. Even amidst crisis, what […]

  • Finding Freedom Along the Way

     It’s Passover, a time when Jewish people and their friends and family tell the Exodus story around Seder tables. After they escaped enslavement in Egypt, the story goes, the ancient […]

  • Catching Stones

    In today’s service, Rev. Jolie will reflect on her experiences as a Peace Fellow at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. We will talk about the message of the Peace […]

  • Poetry is Not a Luxury

    The title of today’s service is from the writer and revolutionary thinker, Audre Lorde (1934-1992). We will explore this premise, that poetry – and other forms of artistic expression – […]

  • How To Do Enough

    Another Question Box-inspired sermon! Many people asked a variation of this question: how can we possibly heal our hurting world? Nothing I do feels like enough, sometimes I feel like […]

  • What is Pluralism?

    Today we return to an important theme: Pluralism, which is one of our UU values. Several of the questions submitted during our January Question Box service asked something like… is […]

  • The Different Faces of Regret

    We want to be able to let go of regret, to live fully into our lives as they truly are. But is there something to be gained from understanding our […]

  • The Growing Edge of Oops

    Being the humans that we are, we sometimes mess up, let people down, and fall short. In honor of the Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur, we will reflect on how […]

  • Climate Revival

    Today’s worship service will tackle a tough topic: climate change. But we will do so by focusing on possibilities rather than catastrophes. Along with hundreds of other UU congregations who […]