Category: Worship

Each year, we devote an entire worship service to a celebration of the arts — for 2015, it will be this Sunday (19 July 2015) at 11:00 AM.

Each element of this service is some kind of artistic performance by our members and friends.  In the past, this has included songs, instrumental music, performance art, magic, poetry, mime, dance and tai chi.

The service itself runs from 60 to 90 minutes.  This will be an all-ages worship service.

The Artist Sunday celebration also features a visual arts display and sale in our religious education wing — beginning from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM and then after the worship service ends until 1:30 PM.

Please join us on Sunday (5 July 2015) at 11:00 AM for “A More Imperfect Union” by Uncle Sam

Join us Sunday morning to meet Uncle Sam — the personification of an ideal that the Founding Fathers were striving for but never reached (and that we haven’t reached either).

And yet the founders were still willing to leave the door open for an expansive future they couldn’t possibly imagine.

They encoded into the constitution broad rights for every possibility.

They were flawed men, at times blatantly hypocritical, unable to live up to their own ideals.

But they wrote them anyway, doing their best to launch this experiment into the future with as much momentum as they could in the hopes that we could keep it rolling.

The All Souls Choir will sing at this service.

Religious education classes for children are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

For today’s service, the middle school and high school classes will remain in the worship service.

Please join us on Sunday (21 June 2015) at 11:00 AM for “What’s Love Got to Do With It? – And Other Egregiously Borrowed Themes” by Robert W. Smith.

Robert Smith is in the pulpit on this Father’s Day with an exploration of love, God, and our relationship to the Unitarian Universalist Principles and Purposes.

He will also direct the choir in a new piece of music — please join us.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us on Sunday (7 June 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Digging Back into the Toolbox:  An Affirmation Sunday Celebration” led by the children, youth and adults of All Souls.

Our 2nd-5th Grade class has begun and ended the year with lessons adapted from a curriculum called Toolbox of Faith (which explores many of the qualities we employ to practice our faith as Unitarian Universalists and live better lives).

In a similar vein, the Middle School/High School class has spent this past pillar on Personal Spiritual Growth exploring Virtue Ethics (the various virtues at work in our lives that help us to make ethical decisions).

Meanwhile, our Pre-K/K-1 class has spent this pillar exploring all our various emotions.

So as we round out the year, it only makes sense that we open up the toolbox again and see what new tools have been added, and how we might use them.

Join us as we celebrate this capstone event as we find out more about what they’ve been learning and honor their transitions at the end of the church year.

Please join us on Sunday (31 May 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey: The Fifth Source” with Steve Caldwell, Barbara Deger, and  Eric First.

We are continuing our series of services on the fifth source of Unitarian Universalism (“Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and to avoid idolatries of the mind and spirit”).

We will hear three very different perspectives on the fifth source and how it informs each person’s experience of Unitarian Universalism.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us on Sunday (24 May 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Infinity and Potential” by Amanda Lawrence.

Continuing our series of services on the Fifth Source (“Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and to avoid idolatries of the mind and spirit”), we welcome Amanda Lawrence to the pulpit this morning.

Religious Education classes for Children and Youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.