In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
Carolyn McDade’s hymn “Spirit of Life” seems to have become a virtual theme song for UU’s. But what is the “Spirit of Life?” Morgan has puzzled over this through the prism of the anthropological study of religion. He has decided that for him the spirit of life is an expression of communitas, a process for the creation of collective joy in a community.
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Come join in the song for this music-filled service celebrating the UUCC’s 75 year anniversary! This service will feature stories from our congregation’s musical past, performances by UUCC musicians and choral groups, and many opportunities to sing along.
The development of spiritual virtues – loving all of life, even the hard parts; equanimity, compassion – may be entirely a matter of getting our neurons wired a certain way, but the circuitry of spirituality differs from the circuitry of cognition and emotion, though it draws on both.
Our country is experiencing what Timothy Synder terms tyranny and appears to be heading toward authoritarian control. Many (all?) of us are finding the experience scary and frightening. What does our UU value of transformation have to say to us as we strive to resist tyranny and enact a radical transformation of ourselves and our […]