A sermon should be a spiritual challenge, and this is one from outside the box. It ties in with Frank Dixon’s wonderful sermon about the gravity of culture. There is no gene or cluster of genes common to all white people or to all black people or to all Asian people. Biological races do not […]

In our September session on meditation, we introduced Breath Counting and Breath Watching meditation. We’ll review those, and explore some of the problems, and benefits, arising during, and from, meditation practice.

Tepp will briefly discuss three local areas of geologic interest: Shenandoah National Park (lava flows on Stony Man, uniqueness of Old Rag), Luray Caverns (karst features), and the Luck Stone Quarry in Culpeper (dinosaur footprints).

This TED Talk by Louie Schwartzberg is a celebration of the awesome beauty of nature, of which we are a part. It’s also a reminder and a heartfelt invitation to fully experience, daily, the emotion of gratitude for all of nature and for every moment in which we are alive in it.

The Rappahannock Clergy Association invites you to: An Ecumenical Community Thanksgiving Service Thursday, November 23 10:00 a.m. Washington Baptist Church 180 Gay St. Washington, VA 22747 Everyone is invited!

Unitarian Universalists tend to be known as civil rights activists. Members of UUBRidge joined hundreds of people from UU and other Virginia congregations in the 2023 “Day for All People” advocacy day in Richmond, sponsored by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP). The four 2023 advocacy priorities of VICPP will be shared, along […]

This is a re-reading of a meaningful sermon (by Ralph Stutzman) that Emery Lazar and his late wife Rita shared with our UU community a number of years ago.  He felt that it merited another hearing.

As our congregation and larger UU Association move into the New Year, there are winds of change in our local and our national spiritual community. What are we hoping for and aspiring to in the New Year? An overview of where we have been and where we choose to go pose many questions to explore.  […]

During the hustle and bustle all around us, we’ll take time during this service to honor the darkness and our own light in that darkness. We’ll walk the beautiful, wooded spiral created by Hearthstone School (inside), holding each other in community.

Happy New Year!

In the United States, we speak, usually negatively, of the welfare state. In the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, the same two words, ‘welfare state,’ capture the very purpose of national government: spreading welfare equally among all citizens. Can the U.S. take a page from the Nordics and begin to reverse […]

SANGO-Kenya has now been working in rural villages in Western Kenya for four years. The program has grown every year in response to the ever-increasing needs, many caused by climate change. They now have nearly 500 farmers in the program, 250 farmers just beginning. That translates to their direct impact extending to approximately 2,500 women, […]