Our Core Values
Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waco!
Look for these symbols throughout this website to see how we are putting our Core Values to work. Read more about these here.
Celebration
Compassion
Inclusion
Inquiry
Spiritual Growth
Upcoming Sundays.....
February 19: Guest speaker Ron Hagar: “Eastern Religion Alternatives to the Western Religion Trinity”
February 26: "Reaching Out by Looking Within"
March 4: "Hope Springs Eternal"
March 11: Guest speaker
March 18: "A Search for Truth?"
March 25: Justice Sunday: UUSC: "Love Is Something We Do"
March 4: "Hope Springs Eternal"
Hope is an interesting word in that it sets an expectation, almost invariably of a positive nature, for the future that is far from assured but built upon aspirations deeply desired. Hopes built upon any other foundation are studies in dementia or the demonic. Don't go there. Ever. But when we, as individuals or as a community, are at our best, we discover vision and purpose and creativity … we enter the synergy of the timeless … a movement toward enlightenment ...
“Religion” is a buzz word; a “hot topic.” There are all sorts of folks who do not like the word religion and will state quite unequivocably they are not religious. And they will do it religiously. What “loads” the term? What is it that makes that word so capable of becoming “baggage?” And what must it actually mean, given religiousness (not religiosity) is ubiquitously present even among those, whether Christian or Humanist or virtually any other perspective, who eschew its use? It is important to understand what the religious is, and as we come to understand its significance, to unpack our bags and stay a while.
February 12: "Unitarian, Universalist and Evangelical"
Unitarians and Universalists come from differing streams of spiritual consciousness. Yet they shared compatibilities that made the movements a mandorla of commonalities in the “marriage” of their communities in 1961. Universalism was evangelical, but not in the sense of the main stream revivalist movements of the 18th , 19th and 20th centuries. But that term belongs to all movements that share “Good News,” regardless of theologies, philosophies or spiritual orientations. What is the Good News of Unitarian Universalism and why and how do we share it?
February 26: "Reaching Out by Looking Within"
Unitarian Universalism finds /one facit of its central mission/ in its commission to confront and alleviate oppressions of the human spirit based in prejudice and injustice. A generous toleration does not include resignation to intolerance. A generous toleration, in fact, confronts intolerance and names it for what it is. The 'motivation' to do that 'comes from within'. From within? What does that mean? Let's look.
March 18: "A Search for Truth?"
Is it a search for a lost relative (that's a [bad] pun)? Is there anything out there to find? Is there anything in there that fits the bill? There's an ancient phrase which declares “... know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Truth is a word, like love or faith, or hope, that can be understood in passing or when it is seen, but when we want to “define” it, it is illusive. The term can be vacuous or overloaded. What is it we are searching for … really!
March 25: Justice Sunday: UUSC: "Love Is Something We Do"
Lao Tzu is credited with saying “Without the tao, kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.” The privatization of food and water would not fall under the rubric of the way of the Tao. The UU minister Jim Eller has written a sermon entitled “Building Wells Is Not Enough.” It doesn't mean we shouldn't dig them. It does mean that if we are ever to deal with the injustices surrounding shelter and sustenance we shall have to find a vastly more radical solution. Like … How radical?!
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