In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
Love is the worst thing, but it is also the best thing.” This was the wisdom given to Rev. Hillary Taylor by a friend as she worried about the possibility of falling in love. In today’s sermon, Hillary will be reflecting on the sacred act of loving others in conversation with Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:38-48, as well as her work with her pen-pal on South Carolina’s death row.
Matthew 5:38-48
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 […]