Past Services and Recordings
Thursday, September 25, 2025
- Multifaith PRIDE Vespers - Deep, Divine Waters: The Queer Sacredness of Our Stories
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Lisa Rhodes – Vocals, Guitar; Elana Scheiner – cello
IN PERSON ONLY
Join Durham clergy and congregations in celebrating and holding queer community. We will honor LGBTQ+ experiences and how we build and shape community, all in the context of our sacred and/or deeply meaningful understandings.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
- Practicing Connection
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Matt Reid – Piano (9:00 am); ERUUF House Band (11:00 am); Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Mur Lafferty
Sunday, September 14, 2025
- Wisdom of the Elders
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Vance Hunter – Flute (9:00 am); Eno River Singers (11:00 am); Leslie Wickham – Piano; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Participants: Steve Franklin, Susan Hazlett, Virginia Williams
Religious Exploration Commissioning of Volunteers
In the words of the elders, we find the lessons that shape us, the insights that guide us, and the strength that sustains us. The wisdom of the elders is a bridge that connects our past, present, and future. Join us this morning as we hear from several long-time ERUUF members about their journey in this community.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
- Holding On and Letting Go, Together
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: River Folk (11:00 am); Pam DiLavore – Cantor (9:00 am); Pam DiLavore & Joyce Kurpiers – Cantors (11:00 am); Matt Reid – Piano
Worship Associate: Lisa Jones
Justice Sunday
August 31, 2025
- “Inherently Worthy” and Our Labors
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Judith Ann Lyon-Mitchell; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Sarah Rose Nordgren
How might we better live into the belief that all are “inherently worthy” while our systems connect worth to how much we produce or the amount of labor we output? Stories and questions on labor and how we live our UU values.
August 24, 2025
- Annual Ingathering
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger with Senior Staff
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus; Eno River Singers; ERUUF House Band; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
MULTI-GENERATIONAL SERVICE
We celebrate the beginning of a new program year with a multi-generational service during which we'll pour libations, reconnect with one another, hear the choirs, and celebrate through a ritual that marks the gathering of the waters of our lives into beloved community. It is customary to bring a small jar of water from a place you may have visited this summer or even from your home tap.
August 17, 2025
- Bear Witness: Save Lives
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger with Guest Preacher, CB Beal
- Music: Elias Gross - Viola; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Generosity Sunday - El Centro Hispano
CB will share stories and reflections about the spiritual practice of bearing witness, a vital part of Beloved Community. We can make ourselves trustworthy by being still and bearing witness to one another; acknowledging, and accepting what folks share about their experience. We must be present with one another with curiosity, acceptance, and empathy that honors our different life experiences.
CB Beal (they/them/theirs) is a religious and social justice educator from Western Massachusetts. CB specializes in facilitating learning experiences that involve issues of marginalization, oppression, and privilege.
August 10, 2025
- I See the Moon, the Moon Sees Me
- Worship Leader – Rev. Jim Lewis with CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans)
- Music: Vance Hunter, Lila Rosa; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor
August 3, 2025
- The Generous Present Moment
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: Paul Baerman - Oboe; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Ben Bailey
July 27, 2025
- In Defense of Hopeless Causes
- Worship Leader: Kaleb Graves
- Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood – Cantor; Kate Lewis – Pianist
Worship Associate: Mur Lafferty
When it feels like the end of the world, living our values can seem absurd. How do we do what is just and good, not because we will succeed, but just because it's the right thing to do? ERUUF Justice Coordinator Kaleb Graves will help us consider this question and how a new view of time may answer it.
July 20, 2025
- In Celebration of Imaginative Spirits
- Worship Leader: Rev. Patty Hanneman
- Music: Jewelsong; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Joyce Kurpiers - Cantor
Worship Associate: Sukyi Naing
Imagination is a gift to all human beings. While reality may seem limiting, our imagination has no limits. This morning we’ll reflect on the importance of imagining the world we want to live in.
July 13, 2025
- Creating Joy in Anxious Times
- Worship Leader: Rev. Patty Hanneman
- Music: ERUUF Summer Choir; Jim Van Verth-Djembe; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Worship Associate: Simon Kaplan
We yearn for more joy in our lives, and we also feel called to change the world. Often, we think of these two things as mutually exclusive, but are they? This morning, we’ll reflect on the importance of creating joy in anxious times.
