All Posts by Rhonda Williamson

June 2021 Ploughshare

Click To Download  PDF June 2021 Ploughshare Posted Date: June 2, 2021 

May 30, 2021 Worship Service: Invitation to Liberation

May 30, 2021 Worship Service: Invitation to LiberationThis Sunday, we’ll hear from our Black Unitarian ancestor, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. We’ll consider what liberation means in a UU context, and Jen Simon, minister to the Mountain Top Black, Indigenous, and People of Color UU community, will extend an invitation to -all- at FUSD to live […]

May 23, 2021 Worship Service: The 8th Principle

May 23, 2021 Worship Service: The 8th PrincipleThis Sunday will conclude the series on the Principles of Unitarian Universalism.  We will briefly revisit the idea of covenant, and then consider the many words of the proposed 8th principle, “Journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that […]

May 16, 2021 Worship Service: The Male Denominator

May 16, 2021 Worship Service: The Male DenominatorIn this collaborative service, Rev. Mike and Alton Dillard will examine toxic masculinity and how it plays out in police brutality, racism, environmental justice, materialism, militarism and probably a few more isms. Make your offering at https://tiny.cc/fusd-give Share0 Tweet0 Share0 To share this story, please click on the […]

May 9, 2021 Worship Service: The Beautiful Web of Indra

May 9, 2021 Worship Service: The Beautiful Web of IndraThe seventh principle of Unitarian Universalism reads: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote, Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” Maybe the most poignant religious image for this idea is from […]

May 2021 Ploughshare

Click To Download  PDF May 2021 Ploughshare Posted Date: May 6, 2021 

May 2, 2021 Worship Service: All Together…. Now?

May 2, 2021 Worship Service:  All Together…. Now?We’ll consider how radical care and consideration lay foundations for community building as we build toward our new normal.  Our 6th principle of World community with peace, liberty, and justice for all beckons us onward together to a vision we’ve not yet achieved. Make your offering at https://tiny.cc/fusd-give […]

April 25, 2021 Worship Service: Restoring Beloved Community Amidst a Global Pandemic

April 18, 2021 Worship Service: Restoring Beloved Community Amidst a Global PandemicThroughout history, global and concentrated epidemics have greatly affected people’s faith, and people of faith have responded very differently to the mass death and suffering that occurred during these epidemics. Yet people of faith have been at the center of these epidemics providing healing […]

April 18, 2021 Worship Service: Adaptation

April 18, 2021 Worship Service: Just ProfitsIt’s been several years since 1st Unitarian Denver has had an active social justice group working on Climate Change and environmental justice, but heaven knows the issue hasn’t gone away.  In honor of Earth Day, we’ll look at adaptation as it applies to the natural environment, and wonder if […]

April 11, 2021 Worship Service: Just Profits

April 11, 2021 Worship Service: Just ProfitsAs tax day approaches, we will look at emerging thinking about economic justice. Can we have an economy that is both profitable and just? Make your offering at https://tiny.cc/fusd-give Share0 Tweet0 Share0 To share this story, please click on the social media badges above. If you are not already […]