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with Carolyn Bjerke and Alice Henderson
Our attention has become a commodity. It is bought, sold, tracked, and shaped.
The devices in our pockets are not neutral. They are designed to keep us reactive, scrolling, comparing, outraged, and slightly unsettled. And over time, what we repeatedly attend to begins to shape who we become. This service asks: Who is forming your heart?
Paying attention is not just a productivity issue. It is a spiritual one. If attention is the doorway to love, wisdom, and discernment, then reclaiming it may be one of the most faithful acts of our time.
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with Kate English and Ruth Ricards
What if both faith and identity are more expansive than the categories we inherited? This sermon explores pluralism through the lenses of non-duality, science, and gender diversity. With personal reflection, accessible information about evolving understandings of gender, and a grounding in our Welcoming Congregation commitment, we’ll reflect on how moving beyond binaries can deepen compassion, belonging, and love.

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with Carolyn Bjerke and Ken Stock
Children do not become who we tell them to be. They become who we show them how to be.
They are listening to how we speak about our neighbors. They are watching how we handle anger, difference, apology, and power. Long before they understand our beliefs, they are absorbing our patterns.This service reflects on the quiet moral formation happening all the time in homes, churches, and communities. What are we teaching about courage? About kindness? About who belongs?
Paying attention, in this case, is an act of responsibility. Our lives are speaking. The question is: what are they saying?

On Sunday, March 15, we’ll gather for our monthly Soul Explorers all-generation service.
If you have grandchildren, neighbors, or families in your life who are looking for a spiritual home, this is a wonderful Sunday to invite them. We’re building something intentional and joyful for our children, and for you.
We hope you’ll join us and bring someone with you.

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with Carolyn Bjerke and Ellen Deeb
It is possible to be attentive to everyone else and still be estranged from yourself ? Many of us override our exhaustion. We dismiss our grief and postpone joy. We keep functioning long after something inside us has gone quiet. This service turns inward. What signals have you been ignoring? What part of you is waiting to be heard?
Paying attention to your own life may be the beginning of integrity. It may be the difference between surviving and actually being alive.

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with Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and Ellen Deeb
Drawing from personal experience, pop culture anecdotes, and the recent embrace of neurodiversity from across the UUA and progressive communities of faith, guest speaker Fulmer-Zelinka will illuminate on how ADHD functions in the life of someone seeking a free faith. This service will celebrate the joys and strengths of hyperactivity as well as the sorrows which afflict neurodivergent life.

Alice Fulmer-Zelinka is discerning her call to ministry and is a member of Live Oak UUC in Goleta, where she sits on the Social Justice Ministry's committee. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UCSB, poet, and podcaster.