A Different Time: March 22, 2020 Rev. Maddie Sifantus with Atul Ranchod and church musician, Vincent Sorisio Erik Halseth, technology and candle lighter Promise this world your love– for better or for worse, in…

Honoring Ground Hog Day 2020 Rev. Dr. Audrey Vincent                        Universalist Unitarian Church February 2, 2020 For those of you who may be visiting or are not regular attendees here I offer a…

Vision: What Is It? A Sermon by Patricia English on November 10, 2019 READING                                                         Rev. Stephen Shick Nature provides ready metaphors for peace and justice. Jesus’ peaceful kingdom is described as a mustard seed…

Our Mission: Foster Spirituality Rev. Maddie Sifantus and Jerry Gray   Just as a candle can’t burn without fire, We cannot live without a spiritual life. ~ the Buddha, TIME FOR ALL AGES                     Walking…

Sunday, September 1, 2019 “Our Promises” READING      “We Covenant”           Janice Marie Johnson Covenants are intentional. Covenants are audacious. Covenants are a promise that can change our lives together in this faith. Together, we will…

Our Mission: Seek Justice July 14, 2019 Rev. Maddie Sifantus   RESPONSIVE READING SLT 588           Isaiah 58 SERMON    Our Mission: Seek Justice                          Rev. Maddie Sifantus I don’t often read from the Scripture—the Bible—in…

Our Mission: Practice Inclusiveness Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula Rev. Maddie Sifantus June 2, 2019 READING           We Are All More Human Than Otherwise                                                Richard S. Gilbert The human race is a vast rainbow…

SERMON HYMN 330             The Arching Sky of Morning Glows  Mark Belletini SERMON    The Power of Poetry                       Rev. Maddie Sifantus The words to our hymn were written by my colleague Mark Belletini. Words mean…

ALL of who you are is sacred. ALL of who you are is welcome. ~ UUA Welcoming Congregation READING  from “Transgender Warriors Leslie Feinberg “Are you a boy or are you a girl?” I’ve…

Four years ago this month we began our walk together, you and I. We began carving our path, blazing a trail, if you will, you and I, our living tradition, my friends. We are…

TIME FOR ALL AGES          A Name on a Quilt                  Jeannine Atkins, adapted REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WE’VE LOST TO AIDS It is right to remember the names of those who lost their lives to this…

Once upon a time there were two women who traveled all the way to Europe to try to stop a war. “You want to do what?” her friend said. “But you can’t, you can’t,…

Once upon a time there was a young girl named Maggie, who found out she had a very terrible disease and probably would never be well again. She was very, very sad, and although…

Through public witness, education, and introspection, our faith is coming to understand that fighting white supremacy means both resisting its most blatant forms “out there,” and disrupting its systemic manifestations within. On this 50th…