March 24, 2024

Made For These Times
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Special Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood; Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director

March 2024 Theme: Transformation

March 17, 2024

Beyond Us
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am), Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

March 2024 Theme: Transformation

Worship Associate: Sarah Rose Nordgren (11:00 am)

March 10, 2024

What Weaves Us Together
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director

March 2024 Theme: Transformation

Michael Field, Worship Associate (11:00 am)

This Is Us: pluralistic in our identities, spiritual journeys, and collective search for truth, meaning, and liberation. This Sunday we'll explore the threads that weave us together in Beloved Community, and how the sacred act of tending to our individual and collective growth has the capacity to radiate out beyond ourselves and into the world For These Times.

March 3, 2024

Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Kristi Chilton – Cantor (9:00 am); Chalice Singers & Andren Chilton – Vocals (11:00 am); Jocelyn Neal – Cantor (11:00am); Kate Lewis – Pianist

March 2024 Theme: Transformation

We celebrate and launch the ERUUF 2024 Pledge Drive by considering who we are in Beloved Community and why that is. Jaye Vaughn, Worship Associate (11:00 am)

February 25, 2024

American Project
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Eno River Singers (11:00am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity

 We conclude this month’s theme of justice and equity by acknowledging Black History Month, and how each of  these intersect with the American project of democracy, liberty for all, and the ever-constant call of our UU values, spirit, and conscience.

February 18, 2024

Tell the Truth – Change the World
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett and the Nontheist Group
Music: River Folk (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor

February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity

Telling personal truths empowers others to do likewise and forges connections with people in similar circumstances. Yet, to create authentic communication, we must be willing to question our own truths, and to acknowledge that they stem from our beliefs and values. Telling any kind of truth is not necessarily easy, but it can plant the seeds of beloved community, and these seeds can grow to change the world.

February 11, 2024

Relationships In A World That Works for Everyone
Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis
Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director

February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity

Generosity Sunday - Step Up Durham

Worship Associates: Sunshine Alvarez, Simon Kaplan

We dream of a World That Works for Everyone.  In that dreaming, the relationships we create with each other will be key to building that world.  How might we come together as people in our listening and understanding?  And how might we move forward from that place in creating change together?

February 4, 2024

It's Not Fair!
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Chalice Singers & Sunshine Kids (11:00am); Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director

February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity

As we begin our focus this month on Justice and Equity, we’ll explore through an interactive service what is often our inherent sense of injustice, that some things are” just not fair”, and what we might feel called to do about it. The 11:00 service is multigenerational (no Religious Exploration classes) and is designed to involve the children and youth at ERUUF.

January 28, 2024

A Love Supreme
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett; Michelle C. Johnson, Guest Speaker
Music: Myk'l Hanna - guest vocalist (11:00); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore (9:00am Cantor); Jocelyn Neal (11:00am Cantor)

It is possible to listen to the music A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and minimize the love he references through notes and tones. It is also possible to engage Coltrane's work of art as a portal for awakening. This Sunday’s guest speaker Michelle C. Johnson shares about the intersections of justice and spiritual practice and justice and love. What does it look like to embody a love so vast for the liberation of all?

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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer.

Read more: January 28, 2024

January 21, 2024

Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Eno River Singers (11:00); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

Mystic Howard Thurman spoke of moving beyond a general love for humanity to the cultivation of love as a foundational inner practice that leads us to take action in particular ways, for particular situations, and particular people. This Sunday we’ll explore what it means to move from love as a generality to love in the “particulars.”
Simon Kaplan, Worship Associate

January 14, 2024

Practicing Love Justice and Liberation
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

Martin Luther King, Jr. was known globally for his commitment to Love, Justice, and Liberation, even in the face of dire and threatening circumstances. As we celebrate his birthday this Sunday, we’ll explore some of the practices that fuel such commitments.

January 7, 2024

Love as Spiritual Practice
Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
Music: The Sirens & the Maudlin Brothers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

The promise of a new year brings an opportunity to begin again, to face, even embrace change. If Love is an embodied spiritual practice, how does this guide our doing and being? How do we engage the liberating power of love in a world of ever-increasing vulnerability, uncertainty, and complexity? Lisa Jones – Worship Associate (11:00 am)