Video of Recent Sermons
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church - April 28, 2024
Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - "Make a Joyful Noise" - We honor the role of music in shaping our spirits and our worship by doing more of it! Come celebrate our choir and musicians in this multigenerational service.
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church - April 21, 2024
Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - The Earth is Ours and We Are Hers" - For Earth Day Sunday we celebrate our home. Amid climate grief and anxiety, we remember that just as the earth offers us physical nourishment, the earth also offers the spiritual and metaphorical strength to seek justice and healing.
Join us in getting down and dirty for Earth Day! In this service we will be hosting a unique dirt communion during the Time For All Ages. Bring a piece of your garden or dirt from a place that is special to you and let's come together to share in the earth's bounty. It's a communion like no other!
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church - April 14, 2024
Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - "Cooperation, Not Competition" - For centuries narratives of competition were the dominant story about human beings, alongside individualism and self-reliance. That story is changing as we have come to understand ourselves as relational and cooperative, learning that love is central to our survival.
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church - April 7, 2024
Guest Speaker Gerry Carr - "Faith" - Gerry Carr found Unitarian Universalism about 30 years ago. She was an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Galveston County for more than twenty years, serving on the board (twice a President), lead of the Program Committee, and Chalice Circle group facilitator. She joined Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church in 2016. She has served as Board President and small group facilitator. She is a Worship Associate and Greeter. She lives in Dickinson with her partner Woody and is a Licensed Master Social Worker. She has worked in Brain Injury Rehabilitation since 1996.
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church -March 31, 2024
Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - "Transfiguration: Resurrection for Skeptics" - As individuals and as organizations we are always in the process of change and rebirth. That change can be slow or it can come upon us suddenly, but there is no stasis. So often we are told who we are and who we are allowed to be. The pain of shedding those old selves is real, but necessary to thrive and become the truest versions of ourselves.
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church -March 24, 2024
Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - "Spring Forward" -Our multigenerational spring service celebrates the beauty of the earth and the potential contained in the heart of every seed. We will create wildflower seed balls to carry some of that beauty out into the highways and byways!
Sunday Service - Bay Area UU Church -March 17, 2024
Alok Kalia, MD - "Emotional Intelligence" - The Intelligence Quotient (IQ), which is a measure of the ability to make rational decisions, has proven to be a weak predictor of professional success. IQ tests ignore the role of emotions in the decision-making process. The term “Emotional Intelligence” refers to the ability to skillfully manage one’s own emotions and respond to the emotions of others with empathy. This ability is now felt to play a major role in personal and professional fulfillment.
Dr. Kalia will take you backstage, inside the brain, to show how the rational and emotional influences balance each other, and how they can sometimes become fierce competitors. He will also share techniques for gracefully responding to overwhelming emotions.
Alok Kalia, MD is a speaker on health issues for business executives. He is a retired professor from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and a long-time member of the Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church.