We worship on Sundays, 11 AM at the UUCNC meetinghouse and streaming on Zoom. Details are on the online calendar. Care is available for young children.

Wednesday Evening Potlucks, 5:30 PM. Details are on the online calendar and at the News & Events tab above.

Get-out-the-vote Postcard Writing campaign in conjunction with the Center for Common Ground: Take postcards home to write, or write them after the Sunday, October 4 and 11 worship services. Details are at the News & Events tab above.

Chalice Circles: Religious Exploration experiences for all ages. Details are on the online calendar and at the News & Events tab above.

Learn about upcoming events on the online calendar.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
— Mary Anne Radmacher

Things that go bump or kaboom in the night

Halloween is again almost upon us. As I have said before, we seem to love to get scared, as long as we know it is make believe. Alas, this message is far from make believe.

During the past 18 months, “We The People” have witnessed death, disease, and an economy in free fall for many people. Who needs ghosts, vampires, and werewolves? We have enough national chaos to go around, and then some.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “A person will worship something, have no doubt about that….Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”

The thing that strikes horror in my heart is that clearly many are worshipping what can only lead to ruin. Some people seem to have been given “permission” to embrace the worst qualities of character and behavior and to herald them as natural and acceptable. Those of us who love justice, mercy, and diversity are being called to rise to this chaos and stand our ground for a world that works for everyone, no exceptions. 

In this moment in history, we must look beyond the individual and lean into our values and principles as perhaps never before. If what we are worshipping and becoming is less than Love, we should be afraid, very afraid!

Enjoy your make believe Halloween. After that, as Mother Jones said, “Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”

In Sacred Service,
Rev. Ron Skowronski