Speaker: Rev. Chris Hockman

Living “Hygge” – Life Lessons from Denmark

The Danish term Hygge (pronounced HooGah) means a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. Let’s learn about hygge and find out how we may apply this “cozy concept” in our warmer South Texas climate. Find out how to cultivate a “hygge” mindset that can help us survive … Continue reading Living “Hygge” – Life Lessons from Denmark

Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race and Ethnicity with U2C3 congregants

Join us to hear personal reflections from participants in Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race and Ethnicity, a program for Unitarian Universalists seeking to embody racial justice as a spiritual practice – and helping to heal the impact of racism on our lives so we can get free together. Come hear about the process, the learning, and the awakenings … Continue reading Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race and Ethnicity with U2C3 congregants

Beginner’s Mind When You’ve Seen it all Before

What is beginner’s mind? It is dropping our expectations and preconceived ideas about something and seeing things with an open mind and fresh eyes, just like a beginner. What are the benefits of looking at everything as if it’s brand new? Find out how cultivating more curiosity and wonder may be helpful in getting through … Continue reading Beginner’s Mind When You’ve Seen it all Before

Side with Love Sunday

What if to “side with love” meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary? This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in the world. Join … Continue reading Side with Love Sunday

Mistakes of the Past: The Empowerment Controversy

Based on the book by Mark D. Morrison-Reed, learn about the Black Empowerment Controversy, which rocked Unitarian Universalism in the late 1960s and continues to reverberate. It was a time of revolution, of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Like the country, the young Unitarian Universalist Association was forced to reckon with demands for … Continue reading Mistakes of the Past: The Empowerment Controversy

Living with Uncertainty

An interactive, discussion-based service In this volatile time we’re living in, it seems like our most urgent questions are impossible to answer. When can I get my vaccination? When will our lives return to normal? What is in store for our society and nation? Amid uncertainty, sometimes we hope for continuity, and sometimes we hope for change. We … Continue reading Living with Uncertainty

The Meditation Service

We’ve all heard about the many spiritual, psychological, and physical benefits of meditation. Join us to learn about and try several varieties of meditation. Afterward, you might find yourself more grounded, less stressed, and able to think more clearly.

MLK’s Message for Unitarian Universalists

In his address to the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly on May 18, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Don’t sleep through the revolution.” Let’s take a fresh look at that lecture and how it may call to us today. Read the whole lecture here View Sermon Below

In Between

It’s a new year with an old pandemic. Help is on the way, but yet, we are still waiting. . . and the waiting is getting more tiresome. How do we cope with these in-between times? What perspectives and actions will help us make it through?