Past Services and Recordings
March 23, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus, The ERUUF House Band (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
March Theme: Trust
As we plant seeds now to create the world our hearts know is possible, we’ll explore what we might learn from Indigenous wisdom of seven-generation thinking.
March 16, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: River Folk (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Judith Ann Lyon-Mitchell – Cantor (9:00 am); Pam DiLavore – Cantor (11:00 am)
March Theme: Trust
March 9, 2025
- Gift Economy
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Michael Field (11:00am)
March Theme: Trust
Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 9 @ 2 am
Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead
There are multiple ways of considering economies -- our relationship with the availability of resources. Today we’ll consider the wisdom of indigenous and other than traditional Western economics and what we might learn from them.
March 2, 2025
- What Seeds Are We Planting?
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate (11:00am): Simon Kaplan
March Theme: Trust
Annual Pledge Drive begins.
Gardeners and others deeply connected with the earth understand that trees and the flowering and vegetative beauty we most often notice during the awakening of spring is the result of seeds that were planted by nature or perhaps by us at some time earlier. This Sunday, as our Annual Pledge Drive begins, we’ll explore the seeds that have been planted in earlier times at ERUUF and those we must plant now for our future.
February 23, 2025
- The Blessings of Chaos and Change
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Demeanor, Artist-In-Residence (11:00 am); Johann Montozzi-Wood, Cantor (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
As we lament the general chaos and change that has come upon us nationally and globally these past weeks, is it possible that unexpected blessings might be had? We here at ERUUF also acknowledge a change in this week’s worship plans!
Artist-In-Residence
A rapper and musician from Greensboro, North Carolina, Justin “Demeanor” Harrington is ERUUF’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
February 16, 2025
- The Practice of [Redacted]
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
Unitarian Universalists desire to be inclusive. That is fantastic! It also takes our active practice to make it real, both in UU spaces and the broader world. What does it mean for us to practice inclusion, especially at a time when corporations and our government are eschewing and actively demonizing the concept?
February 9, 2025
- Creating the World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Myk'l Hanna (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor (9:00 am); Claudia Kaplan – Cantor (11:00 am)
Worship Associate (11:00 am) – Cheryl Fenner Brown
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
11:00 am - Multigenerational Service
Despite all that is going on in our country and the world today, we know in our hearts that a better world is possible. In today’s interactive multigenerational service, we will explore how we each can begin to create such a possibility.
February 2, 2025
- Nonetheless, We Shall Overcome
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am), ERUUF House Band, Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2025 Theme: Inclusion
Justice Sunday: Pride+
As we acknowledge the start of Black History Month, we explore what it really takes to be in the challenging and liminal space of overcoming in our own times, despite setbacks, oppressive opposition, and perhaps never ourselves seeing the day that we finally succeed for good. Worship Associate: Michael Field (11:00 am)
January 26, 2025
- Worship Leader - Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
January 19, 2025
- A War That Even Dr. King Would Approve Of
- Worship Leader – Rev. Jacqueline Brett; Guest Speaker - Dr. Henry C. McKoy, Jr.
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); ERUUF House Band (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
Until the day he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposed any deviation from his strategy of nonviolence and anti-war. Nearly 60 years later, America seems to remain hopelessly imperfect, and the arc of the moral universe seems to be bending in the wrong direction for the most historically oppressed. Would Dr. King, always more militant than his supporters or critics gave him credit for, still preach the same gospel?
January 12, 2025
- How Do We Understand Our Story?
- Worship Leader - Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Sally Franz, Flute (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
January 5, 2025
- The Story of Now
- Worship Leader - Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Stories are a language of connection and have the power to reveal our true nature. As we weave together the tales of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going, our sense of separation fades and the web of our oneness is revealed. In the turning of the year, may we have the courage to know that there is a story of the world waiting to be written.
