Words Don’t Stay Still
Date and Time: 10/18/2020 12:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
Words help heal and create life in abundance. They allow us to live more deeply through poetry and prose. Come help creative life in abundance in a special service of poetry and prose.
Embodiment at Work
Date and Time: 10/11/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
Our body is the foundation of creation, from DNA to electrical impulses, yet we rarely check in with our body and what it is telling us.
Dangerous Creations
Date and Time: 10/04/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
Creativity requires capacity for innovation, adventure, courage and a touch mischievous desire to challenge others. It’s time for a revolution using waves of creativity. Are you ready to dive in?
It’s Time to Think Bigger
Date and Time: 09/27/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
“We have to turn ourselves inside out to turn the world upside down.” Tom Schade
If this is true, what’s inside you? What’s inside me? Are we enough to make a difference in this world?
Purpose of Freedom
Date and Time: 09/20/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
“The purpose of freedom is not to free myself but free another.” Julie Ward Howe
Can we all be free? Free from what? Free to do what?
All Are Welcome Here
Date and Time: 09/13/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker, Tyler Coles, Ann Richards, Mark Zimmerman
No matter who you are, or where you’re from, you are welcome here. Bring your beliefs, bring your values, and find an ear to share your stories.
Imagine
Date and Time: 09/06/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Eric Pourchot and Friends
“Imagine” – Eric Pourchot, Ger Fitzgerald, Linda Doyle, and virtual friends.
A mostly-music look at how we use imagination. Imagination leads to new ideas, new inventions, and new ways of seeing, which can make our world a better place. It can also be an escape. Taken to extremes, it can be a departure from reality altogether. Music can be a door into this realm of imagination, since many songs are built on metaphors and similes. Sing along to music by John Lennon, George Gershwin, Barenaked Ladies, Big Star, Elvis Costello, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Posies, and Peter, Paul and Mary.
The Roller Coaster Ride and the Swing
Date and Time: 08/30/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
Some days it feels like we are on an amusement park ride, and there is no way to get off of this stomach-turning experience. But there is a way to stay steady and strong.
What’s Radical About Hospitality?
Date and Time: 08/23/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
Are ready to truly be welcoming? It’s more than a smile and a good sermon. To welcome the stranger, we need to ask how we are strange, odd and confusing?
The Question Box
Date and Time: 08/16/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
This is the annual Sunday when I welcome written questions from those in attendance. A wide variety of topics is welcome, although I hold the right to defer to actual experts.
Sticks and Stones
Date and Time: 08/09/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Phyllis Gilmore
There’s a rhyme you may have been taught long ago to use when being picked on: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The problem is that words do hurt, particularly when they’re often repeated. Worse, bullying sometimes doesn’t stop with words. We will take a look at bullying, who does it to whom, and the effects of technology.
Are You Ready to Visit the ICU?
Date and Time: 08/02/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Mike Walker
Hate has no home here but are we talking it or living it?
Over the last year, Mike Walker has trained to become a Master Naturalist in the state of Virginia. He found much of this training consistent with our Unitarian Universalist 7th principle: Respect for the interdependent web of life. A particular area of interest for Mike has been the study of ants — and what they can teach us about social life and service to community, and whether to follow the path of other members of their colony. Do we stay on the path that other people are on? Mike asks how ready we are as Unitarians to explore other points of view, particularly we believe other views are wrong. ICU means interest, curiosity and understanding. Mike asks what can we learn if we engage using ICU with those holding other points of view. Reducing issues to all or nothing choices doesn’t serve us well. The goal in the ICU is to be open. Can we listen for the stories of others? You and I have the potential to foster civility. In nature diversity is the key to stability. Hate should never have a home in our hearts.
The Fight to Get the Vote Shall Not Be Denied
Date and Time: 07/26/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Sandra Peterson
One hundred years ago, women won the right to vote through the 19th amendment, passed on August 26, 1920. Sandy Peterson shares what she has learned about the long struggle by women and men to earn all women the right to vote. She reflects on what this means as we are engaged in a new great awakening for the rights to justice and equality for black and minority citizens in this country.
Rare Earth
Date and Time: 07/19/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Alan Bunner
The tiny planet we live on is more rare and remarkable than most of us realize. The characteristics of our planet required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances. Only today is there a creature that is able to look back on the extraordinary history of our planet and appreciate its rarity. It is a beautiful gift to our species, and a huge responsibility.
What I’ve Learned as a Hospice Chaplain
Date and Time: 07/12/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Eleanor Piez
Grief and loss are hard, and everyone experiences them differently. Moreover, today, the end-of-life journey can be further complicated by Covid 19 and other disruptions in our environment. Chaplain Eleanor Piez explores how we can experience realities filled with anger and despair as well as grief, and yet find a way forward in health and hope.
Homily by Eleanor Piez, Affiliate Minister at Mount Vernon Unitarian Church
Creating Sacred Spaces (Online only)
Date and Time: 07/05/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Rebekah Savage
With so many of us spending almost every day, all day in our homes, how do we embrace and cultivate a connection with the sacred? When we are observing the world around us, where do we create space in our homes for grief and mourning, beauty and joy? Rev. Rebekah Savage will explore these questions and more with us for this service.
Transcendentalism and Unitarianism – Kaleidoscopic Perspectives (Online only)
Date and Time: 06/28/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Daniel Cohen
Transcendentalism, a seminal 19th century theological philosophy, has contributed much to the faith system now embodied in Unitarian Universalism, but just what that faith system includes, what we as Unitarians have faith in today, and how this affects our hopes, our aspirations and most importantly, our lives, is a work in progress and may differ for each of us.
Strengthened by Uncertainty (Online only)
Date and Time: 06/21/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker
We are faced with uncertain times as past choices propel us into a frightening future. Yet, facing our fear and befriending uncertainty can be a powerful source of strength and reclaiming of a different future. On this Father’s Day, we shift the traditional masculine lens, inviting all of humanity to see the world with a fresh view.
Coming of Age (Online only)
Date and Time: 06/14/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker and Ann Richards
Losing One Self In Order to be Found
Date and Time: 06/07/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Rev. Dr. Kate R. Walker (Online only)
The culture of education is grounded in learning; new facts, data and stories. But what if what we learn is wrong? How do we unlearn? Sometimes unlearning is the best path forward.
The Day the Church Came Out (Online only)
Date and Time: 05/31/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Tyler Coles
In the story of Pentecost, we are reminded that there is brilliance and fabulousness in the abundance of our being, and that the difference amongst us is the place where blessings flow from.
Homily:
Prayer:
Here I Am. Send Me. (Online only)
Date and Time: 05/24/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Bill Clontz
Memorial Day is about the recognition of sacrifice. Our service this Sunday joins in that tradition, but also in celebration of courage, commitment, and community. In the pandemic that now stalks our world, we find many heroes in many professions who now join those who served in uniform, in service dedicated to larger causes and to each other.
Bill Clontz is a longtime member and church leader now living in Asheville, NC with his wife Meg. A retired Army officer, Bill has also served government, in the private sector, and in leadership roles at MVUC.
A Flyover and a Low Blow – Music Sunday – 9:50am (online only)
Date and Time: 05/17/2020 9:50am
Presenter: Mark Zimmerman and Musicians
Just because we’re not in our beloved Chapel don’t think we’re not doing Music Sunday this year! It’s Music Sunday 2020!
Tune in starting at 9:50 for great music from MVUC choir, guest artists, and related hymns and songs on the theme “A Flyover and a Low Blow: How to Honor our Heroes and Heroines” – noting thoughts for the front lines and the fallen during this terrible pandemic.
Music can be both a motivational feeling and reverential experience to help sort our emotions during this difficult time.
Come and be lifted up!
The Flower Ceremony (Online only)
Date and Time: 05/10/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Tyler Coles
The Flower Ceremony
Created in the spring of 1924 in Czechoslovakia, The Flower Ceremony is now an annual celebration of beauty, diversity, and community in Unitarian Universalist communities around the globe. Come and take part in this moment of holy togetherness as we cultivate beauty in our day to day lives.
Lifespan Spiritual Growth: Six Ways to Learn Your Whole Life Long (Online only)
Date and Time: 05/03/2020 10:00am
Presenter: Lifespan Spiritual Growth Council
Online only – 10:00am
Celebrate all the ways a Unitarian Universalist can learn and grow at Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church. Includes a recognition of our wonderful teachers and a peek into the Religious Education Classrooms.
Audio only:
Homily by Ann Richards, Director of Lifespan Spiritual Growth
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