July 31, 2022 ”Humans” The Rev. Angela Herrera
July 31, 2022
What is predictable about human development and what is not? How much—and how— does a person change in their lifetime?
July 24, 2022 ”Losing My Religion” The Rev. Jane Davis, Affiliate Minister.
July 24, 2022
What has Unitarian Universalism conceded to more mainstream religions that we might want to consider taking back?
Sunday Worship 7.17.2022 ”Trans Justice” with Adrien Lawyer
July 19, 2022
Adrien Lawyer, hosted by the Rev. Jane Davis Our service this Sunday will be led by the Rev. Jane Davis, First Unitarian's Affiliated Minister. Adrien Lawyer is the founder and Executive Director of the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. Music: Amanda Udis-Kessler and Phoebe Lostroh
Sunday Worship 07.10.2022 ”Redemption” The Rev. Angela Herrera
July 12, 2022
A sermon about sin and making things right. Updated for today, Angela originally preached this sermon in 2011. Due to her father’s unexpected passing, Angela is postponing the original topic of “Preparedness” until a later date.
Sunday 2022 07 03 Healing the Heart of Democracy—Revisited” The Rev. Bob LaVallee
July 3, 2022
Quaker theologian Parker Palmer’s book Healing the Heart of Democracy came out in 2014 and a lot has happened in our government since then. On Independence Day weekend, how do we create a politics that’s worthy of the human spirit?
June 26, 2022 Blessings in Verse. The Worship Coordinators.
June 30, 2022
For many UUs, poetry is a source of wonder and renewal, a blessing to our hearts and souls that is always there for us. Join us for First Unitarian’s not-quite-annual poetry service, and bask in words of beauty, insight, and compassion.
June 19, 2022 “Bless This House” The Rev. Bob LaVallee
June 19, 2022
Religious communities create unique blessings that are hard to find in other places. As we face some truly terrible times ahead, how do we at First U bless each other and our community?
“Funeral for Shame” June 12, 2022 Matt Pargeter-Villarreal, Intern Minister.
June 12, 2022
One of the biggest obstacles for us to find inner peace is the shame that we carry. Join us on a journey and a discussion of shame...and how we can finally work to say goodbye to it in our lives once and for all, to become the beautiful and creative beings that we are destined to be.
Sunday 2022 06 05 “Grace and Perception”. Intern Minister Matt Pargeter-Villarreal.
June 5, 2022
Many families get together to "say grace" before meals in order to ask for blessings for the future. But is grace only present when things are going well? Is there grace present in struggle? Join Matt as he explores our relationship with grace and just what it means when we talk about it.
9:00 May 29, 2022 Virtual Worship: Men at War. The Rev. Bob LaVallee
May 29, 2022
Combat is held up as the ultimate expression of masculinity. But the real war exists within men’s hearts and it begins the first time that they are told that boys don’t cry. Former Marine Corps artilleryman and VA chaplain Rev. Bob reflects on the internal and external battles that men fight.
