Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation

02/05/2025

"The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me"
Sunday, February 9th, 10:30am
Meghan Mott
Meghan Mott is in the pulpit and she will read a sermon that was written by Rev. Tess Baumberger and published in the February issue of Soul Matters. It is titled “The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me,” and its summary blurb includes these words: “… I believe any religion worth its salt should take
us beyond our comfort zones and challenge us to grow.”

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01/31/2025

A Matter of Health
Sunday, February 2nd, 10:30am
Rev. Brigitte Bechtold
The sermon will look at the ways in which the health of members of a community involves much more than access to health care. It involves access to steady work with a living wage, access to education and decent housing, safety, and free time to take care of necessities such as doctors’ visits.

Join us this Sunday, in person and via ZOOM:

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01/24/2025

"Story? Or Stories?"
Sunday, January 26th, 10:30am
Mary Louise Porter
On Sunday January 26, Mary Louise Porter will read a sermon by the Rev. Sandra Fees, included in the January issue of Soul Matters. It is titled “Story? Or Stories?” and the sermon's message is summarized as follows: “I invite you to consider the dangers of the single story. I encourage you to listen to the stories that are being told, to listen for the stories that are not being told, and to notice the stories that are actively being suppressed. Looking around our religious community, our nation, and our globe, we do well to ask who is profiting from the single story. Who profits from the way things are?”

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01/01/2025

Tell Us A Story
Sunday, January 5th, 10:30am
Rev. Brigitte Bechtold

The sermon will offer a reflection on the danger of a single story, specifically how history is often written by the victors and the powerful, or by those whose literary efforts they sponsor. To wit, William Shakespeare’s writing career was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudor monarchs, and his “histories” strongly reflect that royal patronage. A popular telling and retelling of historical events can obscure what really happened.

How can we learn from such misconceptions and why is it important to examine the evidence surrounding events in our ongoing history and the narratives of our lives?

Join us in person this Sunday, in person or via ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910

12/28/2024

2nd Annual Winter Social Hall Gathering

Sunday, December 29, 10:30am
Led by Wendy Chessin

This will be an informal time for all of us to gather.
Friends and family are welcome. There will be games and crafts and, of course, snacks. It will end with a Good Wishes "Snowball" fight.❄️

12/19/2024

TWO BIG SERVICES THIS WEEKEND!!!

SOLSTICE SERVICE
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21
7PM in the Sanctuary (no zoom)

"Solstice is a time for magic – for linking our intentions with symbols and images that channel energy to bring them about." (Starhawk)

Join us on this day of the great turning, December 21st at 7pm. We will gather to celebrate the letting go of what we no longer need, opening the way for the new.

"In darkness, the seed takes root and the new sprout pushes toward the light. In the dark of the womb, the spark of life is kindled. Out of the longest night, the new day is born.” (Starhawk)

A PRESENCE ANTICIPATED
Sunday, December 22, 10:30am
Rev. Brigitte Bechtold
The sermon of December 22 is devoted to moving from the “presence of absence” to the anticipation of an arrival, of a caring presence, and a season of gradual warming.

Join us December 22 at 10:30 a.m., in person or on ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910

12/13/2024

"A Christmas Carol" Pop Up Pageant
Rev. Brigitte Bechtold
On December 15, we will enjoy a pop-up pageant version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” The homily will explore the role of Dickens in bringing to light the effects of greed and social injustice.

Join us in person on December 15 at 10:30 a.m. Or click this link to view the Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910

11/21/2024

"Cornbread Communion"
Sunday, November 24th, 10:30a.m.

Rev. Brigitte Bechtold

November 24 we will celebrate the cornbread communion. The homily will be a reflection on the meaning of corn in all its forms as food and other items in our diets, our culture and our relationships with one another.

Join us in person on November 17, at 10:30 a.m.! Or join our Zoom broadcast: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910

11/21/2024

11/16/2024

A Real Comeback Requires Reparation"
Sunday, November 17th, 10:30am
Tommy Airey

American society is caught in a series of out-of-control socio-political and spiritual crises. Structural racism. Climate catastrophe. Collapsing democracy. Gun violence. Homelessness. Addiction. Abuse. Anxiety. Depression. Despair. All of this harm has been perpetuated, across generations, by policies and perspectives scripted by counterfeit supremacy stories based on race, class, gender and sexuality. We are collectively addicted to bogus human hierarchies of value. If this is the root cause, how about we rip a page right out of the 12-step movement? Let’s imagine what it might look like to move past symbolic apologies and make amends – in our interpersonal relationships and our political experiments too! On this continent, our comeback story cannot happen without reparations.

Join us in person on November 17, at 10:30 a.m.! Or click this link to view the Zoom Meeting:

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11/07/2024

10 November 2024
Soul Repair
Rev. Brigitte Bechtold
The sermon of November 10 will be devoted to “soul repair.” When we feel that our soul is broken, it too can be repaired. The music selections planned for November 10 are particularly appropriate and include “Building Bridges” for the spirit music and the hymns “Comfort Me” and “Winds be Still.”

Join us in person on November 10, at 10:30 a.m.! Or click this link to view the Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910

10/29/2024

3 November 2024

Mending Fences: Repairing Relationships
Wendy Chessin shares a sermon by
Rev. Tess Baumberger
It makes sense then, that in many religious traditions, fall is a time for mending emotional and spiritual fences with both the living and the dead… [and] If we can find the places where our own actions have strained or broken the wires, those are the places where we have the power to act, to mend them. Taking stock of our own actions and holding ourselves accountable for them breaks the victim mentality and gives us powe

Join us in person on November 3, at 10:30 a.m.! Or join us on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91026989910