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A Season Turns

With the arrival of the winter solstice, Christmas and the coming of the New Year, we have seasonal turning points we can use to rekindle hope and dream new dreams.

A Sense of Purpose (one service only @ 11:00 a.m.)
Making meaning of the old year and the new year to come.
A Slow Burn

This year Earth Day is a timely reminder of recent dire warnings about global warming. How are we going to reverse this trend -- if there is still time?

A Spirituality for a Pluralistic World

The ability to listen until we understand differently is not a technique but a way of life or a spiritual journey. We will look at a spiritual journey that moves us from hospitality to a vision of shalom/salaam. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier has formed a home with her husband and two children that are HisBlackic. She is also associate professor of religious education at the Claremont School of Theology and has written on issues of interfaith dialogue and multiculturalism.

A Star is Born

Michael Dowd's evolution of history.

A Stone of Hope

Finding inspiration in Martin Luther King's words "We shall hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope," our service will be a time to grieve and to affirm the values and the bonds that give us hope.

A Stroke of Insight
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuro-anatomist. She knew the brain. She studied the specific functioning of different parts of the brain and the way they work together to create our understanding of reality. She learned - the hard way - how to feel more connected, more centered and more at one with all things: just step to the right of your left brain.
 
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A Sunday Kind of Love
Where can we find a love that, as the iconic singer and songwriter, Etta James sang, will last past Saturday night and is more than love at first sight? Well, my friends, you do not have to look farther than right here in this beloved community for a Sunday Kind of Love that gets you from Sunday to Sunday, every week.
A Take 6 Christmas - UUSM Vocalists
A Universalist's View of the World

In his recent book, The Triumph of Meanness, Nicolaus Mills writes that American society has become so selfish and fragmented, we are no longer capable of achieving "social justice on the basis of a broad universalism." Unitarian Universalists may be among the few who still believe it is possible. Are we moving hopelessly out of step or carrying much needed hope? Music for 930 a.m. service Michael Lamb, Tenor

A Young Muslim Looks at the World

Our guest speaker, an American-born Muslim and a 1994 graduate of Santa Monica High School, has been active in his faith community here and abroad all his life. Founder of the Muslim Student Association and co founder of the Pakistani Student Association while he was a student at UCLA, Omar serves the Islamic Center of Southern California as a volunteer and spokesperson. Now married and working in commercial real estate in downtown Los Angeles, Omar will share his perspective on Islam in America and the Koran?s acceptance of non-Muslims.

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