Past Services and Recordings
June 23, 2024
- Doing What is Life-Giving
- Worship Leader: Rabbi Noah Rubin-Blose
- Music: ERUUF Summer Choir; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Simon Kaplan
This service will draw on poetry by contemporary Jewish poets to open up a space for renewal, reflection, and justice for all. Rabbi Noah will reflect on the choices we make to keep doing what is life-giving for us, even when we find ourselves in incredibly challenging times.
June 16, 2024
- Taking Time
- Guest Minister: Rev. Patty Hanneman
- Music: Triangle Vocal Project; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Joyce Kurpiers – Cantor
Worship Associate: Sunshine Alvarez
In her poem, "Fire," Judy Brown writes: What makes a fire burn/is space between the logs,/a breathing space. This morning we'll reflect on setting time aside for whatever creates that breathing space for us.
Rev. Patty Hanneman is a member of ERUUF, and has previously served our Unitarian Universalist movement as a campus minister and parish minister. Currently her ministry includes offering spiritual direction, rites of passage and congregational consultation. She lives with her partner Karen Hill in Durham.
June 9, 2024
- A Theology of Absurdity & Audacity, Part 1
- Guest Minister: Rev. Nato Hollister
- Music: River Folk; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor
Generosity Sunday - Swim For Charlie
Worship Associate: David Huber
We will explore with Rev. Nato a theology of absurdity, and how it can connect with our UU search for meaning. From wholeness to community building to co-creating the Beloved Community, we'll explore together what connects us all.
Rev. Nathan Hollister is a long-time member and Community Minister who has worked with ERUUF on many occasions, mostly centering around racial- and social justice.
June 2, 2024
- One Light, Many Windows
- The ERUUF Christian Fellowship and ERUUF Nontheist Group
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus; Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker - Music Director
Today we explore common experiences and consider the lenses that theists and nontheists use to address them.
Worship Associate: Johann Montozzi-Wood
May 26, 2024
- Truth and Compassion
- Rev. Daniel Trollinger with the Eno River Buddhist Community
- Music: Sally Franz – Flute; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
As one of our Sources groups, The Eno River Buddhist Community will share practice and teachings focused on cultivating compassion. We will also offer a special ritual to lift up our prayers and concerns for the war in Gaza.
Worship Associate: Steve Seiberling, Eno River Buddhist Community
May 19, 2024
- Who We Are and How We've Been
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Annual Meeting after the service.
May 12, 2024
- Community of Care - Multigenerational Service
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Chalice Singers and Sunshine Kids; Annelise & Kristi Chilton, Pam DiLavore; Jocelyn Neal – Piano; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
SUMMER SCHEDULE BEGINS TODAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1, One Service, 10:00 AM
Worship Associate: Ms. Joan Tilghman
Justice Sunday: Reproductive Justice Action Group
High School Bridging Ceremony
May 5, 2024
- Love Your Enemies? Are You Kidding?
- Worship Leader: Rev. Arvid Straube, Minister Emeritus
- Music: Pam DiLavore – Cantor (9:00am); Johann Montozzi-Wood (11:00 am); Claudia Kaplan – Cantor (11:00am); Kate Lewis – Pianist
ERUUF’s Minister Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Arvid Straube, will offer a sermon on how not to become what we hate. At the 11:00 am service, we will also enter into covenant with the new members who have joined ERUUF recently.
Rev. Dr. Arvid Straube is ERUUF's Minister Emeritus. He served ERUUF as Senior Minister from 1983 to 2004. From 2004 to 2014 he was Lead Minister at the First UU Church of San Diego. Since then Rev. Arvid has had a ministry of teaching and spiritual direction.
April 28, 2024
- ChoirFest! When Worlds Intersect
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett with Francisco Ruiz, Guest Clinician
- Music: Francisco Ruiz, Guest Clinician; ChoirFest Singers, ChoirFest Instrumental Quartet; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
ONE SERVICE @ 11:00 am
April 21, 2024
- Earth Day (We are One)
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger and the Earth Justice Action Group
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00), Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
