Sunday Service: The Living Waters Flow - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Waters cycle through clouds and rain, rivers and seas. All around us, waters are in motion. As we gather together for a water communion and a new church year, bring waters that reflect the cycles of your life. We will join them together, as we join together our lives and gifts, affirming our place in the interdependent web of life.

Sunday Service: Finding Our Way - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Worship is a spiritual practice performed in community. Even over distances of time and space there is a joining together for a time in order to anchor us and reorient us as interdependent and woven together. With various beliefs and commitments we come together to find direction and remember our place in the web of life.

Sunday Service: Naming and Claiming—and Reclaiming - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Our state government is injecting more and more religion into secular spaces, especially public schools. We must name and claim our distinctively Unitarian Universalist stances, not to put them also into classrooms, but to ensure that we are able to be agile and forceful in response. This Sunday we’ll discuss the UU stance on sacred texts and what that means for engaging with Jewish and Christian scripture.

Sunday Service: Animal Blessing - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Bring your beloved animal companions—or a photo of them—for a special Blessing of the Animals. Whether furry, feathered, scaled, or otherwise wonderfully unique, all are welcome! Rev. Katie will offer a blessing as we celebrate the joy, comfort, and companionship our animal friends bring to our lives.

Sunday Service: The Very Model of a Modern Unitarian - Guest Speaker: Catherine Vance - People thought that Walt Whitman, the iconic American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass, was weird, but he was the very model of a modern Unitarian...back in 1855. What made him ahead of his time? And what makes us proud models of Unitarian Universalism in our unbalanced society today? How are we the vanguard for attitudes and a way of life that hopefully will look mainstream in the future? Bay Area UU is the sponsoring congregation for Catherine Vance in her journey toward ministry. She is an interfaith chaplain for the UTMB Hospital System and just completed her Master of Divinity at Iliff School in Denver and a two-year internship at the UU Fellowship of Galveston. She will bravely appear before the UU "mighty fine" ministerial fellowshipping committee this fall.

Sunday Service: Blessing of the Backpacks - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - It’s back to school! And even for those of us who have left those days behind, it may still be a time to shift modes, even if it’s still feeling pretty summery. Come receive blessings on your transition, whatever that may be, with special blessings for our students.