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Sparrows Fly and Stars Burn

Date:   April 13, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   11:47

Where is joy? What happens when it’s not enough? Is joy like money - something we have to earn? Or is it like grace, there for us no matter what? Today, centering around a story written by one of our young people, Annette McCue Hafford, we’ll explore the relationship between following our dreams, curiosity, transformation, and hope. Ultimately leading us to a lesson in embracing the joy inherent in becoming exactly what we are needed and meant to be.

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Threads of a Spiritual Journey

Date:   April 6, 2025
Speaker:   Margi Pulkingham
Length:   23:39

Margi Pulkingham is a UUCB Council member and on the Worship Arts Team. She provides a glimpse of the tapestry of joys, sorrows, and unknowns that have led her into the present while still learning how to be at peace with it all.

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Meeting this Moment: Trusting our UU Roots

Date:   March 30, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   14:42

How has Unitarian Universalism met difficult times in it’s history? What is our foundation of trust as a denomination? What role has trust played in the evolution of this faith and the practices of its people. What can we enliven now to meet the challenges we face? 

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Meeting this Moment: With Radical OK-ness

Date:   March 23, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   14:18

This morning we’ll reflect on what it would mean to trust ourselves so deeply that we would know ourselves to be okay no matter what may come. Based on an article printed in the blog Tiny Buddha by Leslie Ralph, we’ll ponder together what a practice of radical okay-ness might look like in this moment.

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Meeting this Moment: When We Are Betrayed

Date:   March 16, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   13:48

Today, we’ll talk about what happens when trust is broken, when our faith is shattered, and the way forward is unclear. In the words of Martha Nussbaum: "Trust involves opening oneself to the possibility of betrayal, hence to a very deep form of harm. It means relaxing the self-protective strategies with which we usually go through life. It means, then, living with a certain degree of helplessness."

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The Peaceful Power of Singing Together

Date:   March 9, 2025
Speaker:   Bennett Konesni
Length:   23:18

Bennett Konesni plays the traditional music of Maine and his own originals. He has a small garlic farm on Tufts Road in Belfast, which is cultivated in community with the power of song. He is also executive director at Bagaduce Music. You can hear his music and support his work at Patreon.com/bk

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Meeting the Moment: Trusting Each Other

Date:   March 2, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   10:01

On this, our annual Stewardship Sunday, we begin our exploration of the monthly theme of “Trust”. As we think about what it means to be Meeting this Moment in our lives, in the existence of this church, we acknowledge that all good things are built on a foundation of trust. In a community like this, we survive through trusting in one another. What does it mean trust each other in a moment like this? What does it mean to be trusted?

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To Belong, Be Longing

Date:   February 23, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   13:48

Our worship service this morning is based on the poem "Be Longing" by Chad Snyder.

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The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me (Reflection 2)

Date:   February 16, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Amy McCormick
Length:   7:37

With a major snow and ice storm underway, the UU churches in Ellsworth and Belfast shared this service on Zoom. There were 139 Zoom participants. In this service inspired by the writings of Rev. Tess Baumberger we’ll explore how lessons in welcome, hospitality and inclusion can be inspired by the most unlikely interactions, people and events. We’ll be introduced to how quirkiness, fantasy, and bravery coincide for the most profound spiritual moments. If only we welcome them in.

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Life is Vast, Love is Vaster (Reflection 1)

Date:   February 16, 2025
Speaker:   Rev. Sara Hayman
Length:   9:26

With a major snow and ice storm underway, the UU churches in Ellsworth and Belfast shared this service on Zoom. There were 139 Zoom participants. Rev. Sara Hayman provided this approach to dealing the the negativism that is so pervasive currently across American society and government.