To view this service, click here. ——————————————– Speaker: Linette Lowe, Executive Director of Central Louisville Community Ministries, President of The Association of Community Ministries On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when food and gratitude are on our minds, we invite you to join Linette Lowe, Executive Director of Central Louisville Community Ministries which is housed … Continue reading Breaking Bread Together: Community Ministry
So much feels broken in our world right now. Join Linette Lowe to explore together what our faith tradition, our own experience, and the arts can bring when we feel broken. Please bring a smallish broken piece or item with you, something that might symbolize for you what you are experiencing as broken. As the hymn says, … Continue reading A Unitarian Universalist’s Theology of Brokenness
Bread is a symbol of communion and community. The breaking of bread is a sign of friendship and sharing. Join us as we say farewell to Rev. Mary Ann Macklin for her final time in our pulpit as our Interim Minister. Rev. Mary Ann joined us in the summer of 2023. She and Linette … Continue reading Let Us Break Bread Together: A Farewell Worship Service
You can watch this service here. —————————————————- Join Linette Lowe to explore how rest is a necessary component of the work of resisting white supremacist grind culture and a key to hope and joy in challenging times. Feel free to wear your comfy clothes and prepare to not only think about rest, but to embody … Continue reading Rest as Resistance
To view this service, click here. —————————————————————- First Unitarian is one of the ten member congregations that support Central Louisville Community Ministries (CLCM), and our membership is one of the many ways this congregation lives out its values in the world. Join Linette Lowe, Executive Director of CLCM, member of First U, and candidate for … Continue reading It Starts when you say We: CLCM and the Path of Resistance
If you would like to view this service, please contact [email protected]. —————————————————- Speakers: Linette Lowe, Cassandra Culin, Jill Sampson What does it mean to be a living tradition of wisdom and spirituality? What are the practical implications of belonging to a living tradition? As the UUA has been working on updating the Article II section … Continue reading Change Is Coming (Probably)
To view this service, click here. ————————————————- Due to extreme temperatures and highly variable road conditions, in-person Christmas Eve Vespers has been cancelled. Please join us for a zoomed Vespers service starting at 5:30 pm; Linette Lowe will still be presenting the Vespers homily. Click here for the Zoom link: =============================================== Special Announcement: Please … Continue reading Christmas Eve Candlelight Vespers
Please contact volunteerdesk@firstulou if you would like to see the video of this service. As we approach the season of celebrations with family and friends gathering for meals (hooray!), we join together as a church community in our annual bread communion. Why and how would UUs want to participate in a ritual called communion? Join … Continue reading Bread Communion
For a recording of this service, please click here. The year 2020 will go down in history as notable, particularly due to matters related to civil/racial unrest and to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the loss of people is a part of looking back over any year just passed, death was an equally significant and unfortunate element … Continue reading Celebrating Those Who Have Gone Before Us: 2020
Join Linette Lowe as we begin the week of Chalica. What’s Chalica, you say? It is a uniquely UU holiday that begins the first Monday of December. On the next seven nights, we celebrate each of our UU principles. Our service on Sunday will give you inspiration and ideas for how to incorporate this intentionally non-commercial … Continue reading Chalica: Making the Holiday our Own
