Past Services and Recordings

December 17, 2023 - One Service

Lessons and Carols
Worship Leaders: Rev. Jacqueline Brett and Dr. Wendy Looker
Music: Jane Hewitt and Catherine Alguire – Harp; River Folk, Chalice Singers – Co-leaders: Jocelyn Neal, Pam DiLavore; Sunshine Kids – Co-leaders: Kristi Chilton, Art Hollander, and Melissa Merres; Eno River Singers; Elias Gross – Viola; Stanley Wilson – Tenor; Beloved Community Chorus; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Dr. Wendy Looker–Music Director

ONE SERVICE - 11:00 AM

Join us for a very Unitarian Universalist reimagining of the Festival of Lessons and Carols, as our many groups and soloists offer a morning of music, accompanied by life lessons presented by the ministers and senior staff.
 

 

December 13, 2023

Jazz for the Holidays
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Guest Artists: Shana Tucker – cello and vocals and Christian Tamburr – piano and vibraphone

We invite you to join us for a winter Vespers service that beckons you into sacred rest and contemplation through music, poetry, prose, and song. Worship Associates: Johann Montozzi-Wood and Mur Lafferty

All are welcome.

 

 

December 10, 2023

Stories of Future Past
Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
Music: Lisa Rhodes - Guitar and Vocals with Elana Scheiner, Cello [11:00 am]; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

The holiday season is a time full of stories, both in the culture and our own personal histories. These stories are gifts. Reflecting on the completion of one year and the anticipation of a new one, how can we open these gifts and share them with others? How does sharing the gift of stories invite us into mystery and wonder? [Mur Lafferty, Worship Associate 11:00 am service]

Generosity Sunday recipient is Families Moving Forward.

December 3, 2023

Advent: Making Room for Compassion
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett with the ERUUF Christian Fellowship
Music: River Folk [11:00 am]; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

In the Christian tradition, today marks the first Sunday of Advent, a season that includes the four Sundays before Christmas, and established around 590 CE. Each of the four Sundays in Advent has a theme associated with it – Love, Hope, Joy, and Peace.  Join with the ERUUF Christian Fellowship to explore Love and its close cousin Compassion -- a "feeling with" others, a virtue at the center of the Way of Jesus and every major religion. Advent Resources for UUs.

November 26, 2023

The Gift of Attention
Worship Leader, Rev. Daniel Trollinger
Music: Chalice Singers and Sunshine Kids [11:00am]; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Judith Ann Lyon-Mitchell, Cantor [9:00am]; Jocelyn Neal – Cantor [11:00am]

We all have a deep longing to give—of ourselves, to each other, and the world. What gets in the way? In the stress of daily living, it is easy to get caught up or distracted and forget about the most precious gift we can offer: our presence. What can help us restore, renew, and remember?

November 19, 2023

Sharing Our Resources
Worship Leader, Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Triangle Vocal Project; Bill Adams – Conductor; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

Sharing is a practice many of us teach our children as an important life principle. This Sunday we’ll explore some of the practices that make sharing distinct from outright giving, and consider how we grown-ups are doing at sharing our personal and collective resources. Is it easier to give than to share? Jaye Vaughn, Worship Associate.

Transgender Day of Remembrance Vesper Service - Saturday, November 18, 2023; 5:00pm Worship Leader: LGBTQ Center of Durham, ERUUF Sanctuary. Rev. Jacqueline Brett and Rev. Jim Lewis, guest speakers among others. Reception immediately afterward.

November 12, 2023

Travels in the Abundant Universe
Worship Leader, Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Beloved Community Chorus; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

New Member Sunday

We continue our consideration of generosity with an exploration of abundance, how it shows up throughout the cosmos, and what becomes possible when we engage the whole of life from a practice of abundance or that of scarcity. This week we’ll also welcome our new members of ERUUF at the 11:00 service.

Worship Associate: David Huber (11:00am)

November 5, 2023

Generosity of Heart
Worship Leader, Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Music: Eno River Singers (11:00), Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director

Additional Music @ 11:00am - Judith Lyon-Mitchell – Soloist; Johann Montozzi-Wood – Soloist; Jim Van Verth and Jeremy Anderson – Percussion

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS - Remember to turn your clocks back 1 hour.

All religious and spiritual traditions speak of being generous of heart as a core practice that can manifest in our lives in many different ways. This Sunday we’ll explore some of these possibilities as we focus on generosity throughout this month. Worship Associate: Mur Lafferty (11:00am)

October 29, 2023

The Cosmos and All Souls
Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood – Cantor; Beloved Community Chorus; Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director

From the Earth and the Universe we come.
To the Earth and the Universe we return.
On this Sunday we celebrate the Day of the Dead in ritual and candle lighting honoring those who are now our ancestors. All are encouraged to bring a photograph or small object as together we construct a community altar to honor ancestors we call forward from memory.

October 22, 2023

Living as Legacy
Worship Leader: Rev. Daniel Trollinger
Music: Eno River Singers & Jim VanVerth – Djembe [11:00am]; Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director

Where we come from and what we inherit becomes part of our personal spiritual journey and also shapes our collective faith tradition. Beyond spiritual autobiography, what is the legacy we are creating with the way we live our values? How can we build the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible? Michael Field, Worship Associate [11:00am]

October 15, 2023

Tribes and Native Americans in North Carolina
Worship Leader, Rev. Daniel Trollinger; Guest Speaker: Kara Stewart
Music: Chalice Singers, Sunshine Kids (11:00am); Kate Lewis–Pianist; Joceyln Neal–Cantor

During this Sunday’s service guest speaker, Kara Stewart, member of the Sappony tribe will share about North Carolina’s eight state-recognized American Indian tribes and the Native Americans who are all around us today.

She will also offer a presentation and deeper discussion at 12:30 pm in the Commons Room.
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Kara Stewart was a teacher in North Carolina public schools for 24 years. She currently serves on the North Carolina American Indian Heritage Commission and the Board of Directors of United Tribes of North Carolina. She is also on the tribal council of her tribe, the Sappony. Ms. Joan Tilghman, Worship Associate (11:00am)

October 8, 2023

Then, Now, Beyond: Future Possibilities, Informed by Our Unitarian Universalist Heritage.
Worship Leader: Rev. Jim Lewis
Music: Eno River Singers; Kate Lewis–Pianist; Wendy Looker–Music Director

How might past Unitarian moments inform our Unitarian Universalist future? Rev Jim will explore a Unitarian conflict from the 1920’s and what we can learn from that about our possible future.

Worship Associate (11:00am): Cheryl Fenner Brown Generosity Sunday [Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation]