A Few Worthy Things - Rev. Katie McQuage Loukas - These days our attention is for sale, a commodity worth a great deal to the sellers of ads and makers of media. How do we choose where to direct our attention? What practices allow us to engage the world with more intention and less distraction?

The Promise of Jubilee - Rev. Katie McQuage Loukas - The ultimate sabbath time in Hebrew scripture is the Jubilee– a giant reset button to make all things right and just. It probably never actually happened, but the promise of it presented a clear vision for how to live in the present. The promise of Jubilee is a guiding vision of radical relationship and community care.

The Universal Body: Disability Justice and Universalism - Nina Kuzniak - On February 15th, we welcome guest speaker Nina Kuzniak to the pulpit. Nina is a fourth-year Unitarian Universalist seminarian at Starr King School for the Ministry and currently serves as the Ministerial Intern at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. She also occasionally preaches at Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church. When she’s not preparing for parish ministry, Nina enjoys experimenting with new vegetarian recipes and exploring Houston with her dogs.

Community Means All Us - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Resilience and self-care are often presented as solitary and individualistic, but we are all embedded in networks of relationship and community. Building resilience and capacity is collective work we do for and with each other. What do you bring to our collective project of community?

All That We Are Is Holy - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - Bring your chalices for the sharing of sacred flames! Tis the season for pagan fire festivals and Christian candle blessings, so we Unitarian Universalists will celebrate and bless our chalices. If you have one at home, please bring it. And if not, we’ll have plenty here, including terra cotta ones you can decorate and make your own.

All That We Are Is Holy - Rev. Katie McQuage-Loukas - The rights of all people to live freely in our bodies is sacred and holy. The choices we make in pursuit of that freedom are also sacred and holy. Bodily freedom from coercion is essential to liberty and citizenship, but liberation demands even more – true justice, where all are able to not only survive but thrive.