Adult Faith Exploration
Adult Faith Exploration opportunities help you to answer the question of what it means to be UU.
We offer classes with varying commitment levels, each designed to help each other deepen, connect and engage.
Year-long Classes and Spiritual Practice Groups
Going Deeper
In small groups of 6-8, Common Flame congregants explore how to live our beliefs, be in community, and care for each other. Through small group bi-monthly meetings, participants have the chance to deepen, connect and engage on a deep level. Groups meet twice per month from September-May and are facilitated by trained lay leaders. New participants can join in September and January.
UU Wellspring Sources
UU Wellspring is a year-long, bi-monthly group focusing on deep connection through the exploration of the UU sources and spiritual practices. Participants are invited to join in August.
Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS)
Grounded in the theories of inclusive Heathenry, Nordic Animism, BIPOC theories of spiritual activism, Reflections on Race and Unitarian Universalist themes, our CUUPs chapter will be celebrating the New Moon, the time of the month when we choose things we wish to change about ourselves. New Moons are times of reflection and the changes we sow become the rewards we reap at the Full Moon. We welcome everyone, pagan or not, to this series. Contact: Piper Perry
Golden Satsang
The purpose of the Golden Satsang group is to maintain a supportive community for meditators to share inspiration and personal experiences related to applying universal spiritual principles in daily life. We are a non-sectarian community of adults committed to supporting one another to live mindful, meaningful, purposeful lives. Our focus includes reading study of spiritual writers while supporting each other’s efforts to lead balanced, loving lives.
Mindfulness Meditation
The Mindfulness Meditation group is meets online every Sunday, 5-6:15 pm, to meditate together and discuss a mindfulness-related theme. Contact: Tina Voelker
Shorter length classes
UU Common Read
Thursdays, January 23 and 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pm; special sessions for parents and caregivers Thursday, February 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Join us for a discussion of this year’s UUA Common Read book, Authentic Selves by Peggy Gillespie. The book is a beautiful compilation of life stories and photo portraits of trans and nonbinary people, as well as their partners, parents, children, siblings, and chosen family members. Please note that we ask you to read the book ahead of time.
Spiritual Practice Series
Common Flame congregants can explore a spiritual practice that might be new to them, or to which they want to commit at a deeper level. Common Flame members who regularly engage with the practice will share their insights, wisdom and techniques. Practices offered:
UU Wellspring: Crisis of Life
How does our faith and faithfulness sustain us in the hard moments and chapters of our life? Class is based on the book Take What You Need: Life Lessons After Losing Everything by UU Minister, Rev. Jen Crow, after her house burned down. You can read the book ahead of time or as we go.
Imagining Abundance: a UU Theology of Giving
Over the course of our lives, we receive messages about money and resources from many sources, including our families of origin, our communities, our financial professionals, and our society at large. What shapes your giving and your theology of resources? How can your budget be an expression of your deepest UU values?
Universalist History and Theology
Learn how our UU theology was shaped by the Universalist message and what it means for us today.
Racial Justice without Shame
Learn about why it is so difficult to have conversations about race without shame, in a safe space to ask questions and learn foundation-level concepts of anti-oppression work.