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Music Has Charms
The title is from a poem by William Congreve, 1697: “Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Our lives without music would be barren indeed. Music can be a vehicle for peace, understanding, healing, and love.
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Better Together: The GA Experience
GA delegates report on their experiences at General Assembly. Please join us after the service for the first in a series of discussions and light lunches being planned by the ad hoc committee on Exploring Denominational Changes and Adult Religious Exploration.
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On Love and Death: The Wisdom of Forrest Church
The Rev. Dr. Forrest Church was a leading Unitarian theologian and minister who wrote many influential books including a popular introduction to Unitarian Universalism, A Chosen Faith (with John Buehrens). Two of his books profoundly influenced Dr. Michael Sullivan, a psychologist, in becoming a UU after moving to Columbia with his wife Susan in 2008.…
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My Choice Not Yours
We ultimately make our own decisions. Our early years are guided by a more experienced generation, but there comes a time when we are responsible for making and living with our own choices.
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Who’s Driving, You, or Fear?
What are we afraid of? What effect does that fear have on our lives? How can we learn to be the driver and put fear in the back seat?
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Intimate Relationships
Brief description of the importance of biological relationships using a typical leaf as an example. An elaboration of the UU 7th Principle
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The Dream from a Midsummer Night: Love Makes You Do Strange Things
Shakespeare’s play describes how love causes us to do strange things and take strange actions in the fight for social justice.
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Icarus and Daedalus: The Dilemma of Fatherhood.
We will use this myth of this relationship between father and son to explore the dilemma for all of us, balancing the desire to give our children wings, while wanting to keep them safe in a violent world.
In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
