About 17 years ago I was attending a worship committee meeting at a UU congregation. I made the remark that I thought we needed to ensure that all our services, whether they were primarily about social justice, or history, or a congregational finance, needed to include a spiritual context. I was immediately challenged by a … Continue reading A Rev. Bill Commentary: Those tricky words: “Spiritual” and “Spirituality”
Listen, the Birds Are Singing – Rev. Bill Graves and Frances Wood Religious Naturalism is a spiritual strand that resonates well with many Unitarian Universalists. Exquisitely beautiful and endlessly fascinating birds are all around us awaiting our notice, especially now as we are on the cusp of the spring migration. Bill and his wife, Frances, … Continue reading Preview: Rev. Bill’s March 11 Sermon
UU History in Depth, Part 3: “American Unitarianism 1620-1860. Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:00pm As usual Bill invites you to come at 6:30 to share a vegetarian pizza so long as it lasts. This is the story of the pilgrims, the birth of congregational polity, minister/scientist Joseph Priestly and his impact upon our nation’s founding … Continue reading Rev. Bill’s Thursday Seminar – March 8
Workshop for Worship Service Leaders, Saturday, March 10, 10:00 am. We would love to expand our group of Sunday worship service leaders. If this is a way you might consider contributing to KVUUC you are invited to attend a workshop on worship presentation to be led by Rev. Bill. We will discuss values, techniques and … Continue reading Workshop for Worship Service Leaders
Rev. Bill’s March 2018 Schedule
Greetings from Oaxaca! I write you from the apartment where Frances and I have spent the past eight Januarys. Today Saturday, January 26 will be typical. The temperature will range from about 52 to 74 degrees and with no chance of rain. I will make a breakfast of eggs and sliced papaya, both ingredients bought … Continue reading A Rev. Bill Commentary: The View From Here
Our theme for December selected by our KCUUC Council on Worship is “Hope”. As she usually does, Mary Oliver finds the most elegant ways to access abstract topics. Let me share a prose-poem by her titled Maybe hope, maybe faith: In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness … Continue reading A Rev. Bill Commentary: Finding Hope in Dark Times
O My G-d – by Rev. Bill Graves and Rev. Lita Malone The title to this service borrows from the Jewish tradition of refraining from saying or writing a full word representing the source of all which is unknowable and unnamable. But, even while acknowledging our inherent limitations in this subject area, some of us cannot … Continue reading Preview: Rev. Bill’s Dec.10 Sermon
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Pilgrim Experiences Thursday . December 7, 2017 at 7:00pm. Bill will discuss his walk this past September and October along 180 miles of the Camino Portugues as well as his longer walk several years ago on the Camino Frances. Both are routes used by Pilgrims over the past 1000 years to journey to a Spanish city … Continue reading Bill’s Thursday Seminar – Dec. 7
