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The last service of the series challenges us to expand our compassion to all living beings, to all of the interdependent web of existence. Music by Kent and Dorothy McDaniel. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
Building on last week’s service, Rev. Sarah invites us to practice compassion for those people, animals and plants around us. Music by Warren Bush. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
Part One of “The Gift of Compassion” Sunday Service trilogy focuses on having compassion for oneself. Drawing from Lisa Olivera’s blogpost “How Do I Keep Going?” and other resources, Rev. Sarah invites us to practice inward loving kindness. Music by Maki Ito Pardieck. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
Please join members of the Reproductive Justice Group as they reflect on this past year as the Social Justice Action for CUF. A few members will share personal stories, as well as a look back at our UUA grant, comfort bag assemblies, and the books and films that have been shared this past year. Music by Terri Sullivan. (Services are in person and on Zoom.)
Help create this DIY service by bringing a short (under four minutes), favorite reading or quote on the topic of Freedom, our theme for July! “Modern” quotes preferred (20th-21st centuries). Music by Elana Floyd-Kennett. (Services are in person and on Zoom.)
CUF member and Carbondale city council member Clare Killman will explore with us the concept of freedom, human nature’s innate thirst for limitlessness, and how responsibility (as a set of self-impositions) is the price we pay for admission where freedom is concerned. Music by Candy Davis and Marty Merrill. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
Traditionally, a “matin” is a service of song and prayer. It has also been used to refer to the morning song of birds. Our version of a matin is a service of music, reflection, and blessings. Join us for meditations and music on “Freedom,” our theme for July. Music by Curt Wilson. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
June 30 – “The Greening of CUF”
Come explore our Congregation’s commitment as a UUA designated Green Sanctuary and to our seventh principle. What environmental concerns went into the planning of our building over twenty years ago? What do our kitchen and our coffee have to do with living our green values? How did our prairie come about, and why? Members of the congregation and Green Team will help answer these and other questions! Music by Pat York. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
Making connections to CUF’s current and future activities, Rev. Sarah shares highlights from this year’s Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, “Love Unites, Stories Ignite.” She’ll touch on relevant results of the business meeting, especially the vote on the new Seven Values of UUism, as well as stories of UU congregations across the country and around the world. Music by Elana Floyd-Kennett and Bob Swenson. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
CUF is honored to host this joyous interfaith celebration of LGBTQ+ inclusion. Participating congregations include Church of the Good Shepherd (UCC), First Christian Church (DOC), First Presbyterian Church, First United Methodist Church, and St. Peter’s Church (UCC). Music by Gypsy Obermiller, and the Interfaith Pride Choir, directed by Michael Thompson. (Services are in-person and on Zoom.)
