Past Services and Recordings
March 10, 2024
- What Weaves Us Together
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
March 2024 Theme: Transformation
Michael Field, Worship Associate (11:00 am)
This Is Us: pluralistic in our identities, spiritual journeys, and collective search for truth, meaning, and liberation. This Sunday we'll explore the threads that weave us together in Beloved Community, and how the sacred act of tending to our individual and collective growth has the capacity to radiate out beyond ourselves and into the world For These Times.
March 3, 2024
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Kristi Chilton – Cantor (9:00 am); Chalice Singers & Andren Chilton – Vocals (11:00 am); Jocelyn Neal – Cantor (11:00am); Kate Lewis – Pianist
March 2024 Theme: Transformation
We celebrate and launch the ERUUF 2024 Pledge Drive by considering who we are in Beloved Community and why that is. Jaye Vaughn, Worship Associate (11:00 am)
February 25, 2024
- American Project
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity
We conclude this month’s theme of justice and equity by acknowledging Black History Month, and how each of these intersect with the American project of democracy, liberty for all, and the ever-constant call of our UU values, spirit, and conscience.
February 18, 2024
- Tell the Truth – Change the World
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett and the Nontheist Group
- Music: River Folk (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore – Cantor
February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity
Telling personal truths empowers others to do likewise and forges connections with people in similar circumstances. Yet, to create authentic communication, we must be willing to question our own truths, and to acknowledge that they stem from our beliefs and values. Telling any kind of truth is not necessarily easy, but it can plant the seeds of beloved community, and these seeds can grow to change the world.
February 11, 2024
- Relationships In A World That Works for Everyone
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity
Generosity Sunday - Step Up Durham
Worship Associates: Sunshine Alvarez, Simon Kaplan
We dream of a World That Works for Everyone. In that dreaming, the relationships we create with each other will be key to building that world. How might we come together as people in our listening and understanding? And how might we move forward from that place in creating change together?
February 4, 2024
- It's Not Fair!
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Chalice Singers & Sunshine Kids (11:00am); Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director
February 2024 Theme: Justice & Equity
As we begin our focus this month on Justice and Equity, we’ll explore through an interactive service what is often our inherent sense of injustice, that some things are” just not fair”, and what we might feel called to do about it. The 11:00 service is multigenerational (no Religious Exploration classes) and is designed to involve the children and youth at ERUUF.
January 28, 2024
- A Love Supreme
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett; Michelle C. Johnson, Guest Speaker
- Music: Myk'l Hanna - guest vocalist (11:00); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Pam DiLavore (9:00am Cantor); Jocelyn Neal (11:00am Cantor)
It is possible to listen to the music A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and minimize the love he references through notes and tones. It is also possible to engage Coltrane's work of art as a portal for awakening. This Sunday’s guest speaker Michelle C. Johnson shares about the intersections of justice and spiritual practice and justice and love. What does it look like to embody a love so vast for the liberation of all?
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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer.
January 21, 2024
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Mystic Howard Thurman spoke of moving beyond a general love for humanity to the cultivation of love as a foundational inner practice that leads us to take action in particular ways, for particular situations, and particular people. This Sunday we’ll explore what it means to move from love as a generality to love in the “particulars.”
Simon Kaplan, Worship Associate
January 14, 2024
- Practicing Love Justice and Liberation
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
Martin Luther King, Jr. was known globally for his commitment to Love, Justice, and Liberation, even in the face of dire and threatening circumstances. As we celebrate his birthday this Sunday, we’ll explore some of the practices that fuel such commitments.
January 7, 2024
- Love as Spiritual Practice
- Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
- Music: The Sirens & the Maudlin Brothers (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
The promise of a new year brings an opportunity to begin again, to face, even embrace change. If Love is an embodied spiritual practice, how does this guide our doing and being? How do we engage the liberating power of love in a world of ever-increasing vulnerability, uncertainty, and complexity? Lisa Jones – Worship Associate (11:00 am)
December 31, 2023 - One Service
- Kwanzaa -- Kuumba!
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus; Guests Musicians: Demeanor, The Ancestors Voice Ensemble; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
ONE SERVICE - 11:00 am
Join us this Sunday for our annual Kwanzaa celebration as we focus on Kuumba, the sixth principal of Kwanzaa, which honors the creativity of people of the African diaspora. We’ll focus upon creatives in North Carolina. A Kwanzaa Karamu (feast) will take place directly after the service. All are welcome!
Guest Creators:
D.J. Rogers - Durham Poet Laureate, Veronica Carlisle and Melanie Dantzle - African American Quilt Circle of Durham, William Paul Thomas - Visual Artist, Nina Goffney - Visual Artist
December 24, 2023
- 5:00 pm – Holiday Pageant; 7:00 pm Candlelight Service
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis [5:00 pm]; Rev. Jacqueline Brett [7:00 pm]
- Music: Eno River Singers [7:00 pm]; Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director
No morning service today.
5:00 pm Our Tale in Bethlehem
Journey with us through Bethlehem on a special night and join us in asking questions to find out what is going on!
7:00 pm It's Christmas!