October 4th | Remembering Interdependence: Healing Our Way Back Into Right Relationship
with Susan Beaulieu
Trauma creates fragmentation, within ourselves and across our relationships with one another and the living world. Drawing from Indigenous understandings of relationality, matriarchy, and interdependence, this conversation explores healing as a process of reintegration: remembering ourselves as part of a larger Web of Life and restoring the relationships, responsibilities, and ways of being that help us live in right relationship.
October 11th | Everyone Everywhere Always Coming Out
with Rev. Meg Riley
All our lives, all of us come out. We come out because we need to leave where we were, and we come out because we need to go where we are called. How are we called to come out in these difficult days, what are we called to leave behind and what are we called to embrace? One model for everyone is the lives that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people lead, committing themselves to lives of authenticity and joy despite enormous costs. Reflections from a lesbian who hits her 50 year coming out anniversary next year, in honor of National Coming Out Day.
The Rev. Meg A. Riley, a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, retired after 38 years as a religious professional who served the faith in many capacities. She now lives in South Minneapolis with beloved people, plants and animals.
October 18th | Courage Within and Among
with Rev. Sara Smalley
Fear is a hallmark of so much of modern life. But as Rev. Audette Fulbright Fulson says, when we join together, we realize “there are others weeping and rising and gathering their courage.” For this service we’ll consider how courage is something we can call on deep within ourselves, and something that can be found in the solidarity we cultivate between us.
October 25th | The End of the Map is Not the End of the World
Rev. Sara Smalley
“When we come to the edge of our knowing, and the journey is not yet over and the road we’ve been on disappears, remember: it is only the map—not the world—that has ended,” writes poet Karen Hering. Moving into an uncertain future can be scary and disorienting, but it also means we get to chart new possibilities instead of continuing to travel well-worn ruts. Join us as we reflect on the courage to start, the courage to stop, and the courage to change course.