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This Sunday
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### Sunday, October 4, 2026, at 10:30am

### Animal Blessing

Worship Leaders: Pastor Kirk, Sheri, Alex & Janique

This Sunday we honor the interconnected web and bless the animal companions who enrich our lives. Bring your animal companions along, or invite them to the screen if you're online. If your companion can't join us, or is no longer with us, bring a photo to hold or share. For those who wish, we'll have time for introductions and appreciations.

To help everyone feel at ease, we ask that animals in the sanctuary stay close to their humans and be leashed or otherwise restrained as appropriate. To support those with allergies or other sensitivities, we will hold an animal-free section in the front few rows on the musicians' side of the sanctuary, and joining online is a welcome option too. As always, please care for yourselves and one another by choosing the place and the way of joining that serves you best.

Davies Unitarian Universalist Congregation
7400 Temple Hill Rd.
Camp Springs, MD 20748
Directions
(301) 449-4308

Onsite & Online (https://daviesuu.org/zoom/worship)

#unitarianUniversalist
#spirituality
#animals

just had a lovely Petaluma Sunday. Biked to church (signed the membership book, was welcomed by lots of people, sang in the choir), went to excellent poetry reading by Lorrie Chang, Mahrs Emerson Schoppman, and mOody bLaCk at the Phoenix Theater as part of Petaluma Poetry Walk, ran into some friends at another of the poetry walk venues, loitered around in Putnam Plaza Park listening to a jazz group (tight rendition of Sidewinder), biked over to pick up some books from the library, and now home.

#petaluma #bikeTooter #sonomaCounty #jazz #uuism #unitarianUniversalist #poetry #library #publicLibrary

https://petalumapoetrywalk.org

So a real treat at church this morning... Jim Scott, an amazing musician, songwriter, and all-around good human (and pretty ardent UU) did most of our service this morning.

He wrote Gather The Spirit, a favorite of many from the "old" hymnal (photo), and wrote 5-6 songs that are in the new hymnal.

He's played with a lot of great musicians. And he's passionate about peace, justice, and the climate crisis.

It was a good morning.

https://jimscottmusic.com

#uu #unitarianUniversalist #jimScott
#climateCrisis #unitarianUniversalism #peace #justice

5/5
From Ashley Horan:

" It is precise, exquisite, custom-curated authenticity that masquerades as performance, not the other way around, and its infinite expressions — its rhinestones or leather or lashes or fatkinis, depending on the Femme — are not a challenge, a demand, an insistence that this form of expression must be yours, but rather an elbow to the smothering rib cage of conformity that whispers in your ear that you should be anything except precisely who you are.

In both your presence and now your absence, Queen Dolly, you’ve made more space in the world for so many of us. Your memory is already a blessing. May you rest in peace and pearls."

#UU #DollyParton #UnitarianUniversalist #femme

1/5
From Ashley Horan, UUA minister in Minneapolis
https://www.facebook.com/ashley.a.p.horan/posts/pfbid0TS9uVcjtcdthj4wu7RPKbbt7KnRYCsfYR34L4xxk8U44yr5xDQGPAhyG7moUQZr4l

"There are more than enough raw expressions of grief and think pieces about our Queen Dolly flooding the internet right now, but because there is power in collective mourning and celebration of lives truly well-lived, I’m going to add mine, too:

In particular, I want to lift up and give glory to Dolly’s over-the-top, absolutely intentional, lived-in-comfortable, irreverently extravagant, flashy-as-fuck, weaponized-while-giving-permission version of femme. While she didn’t identify (at least not publicly) as anything other than a straight cis woman, there is a reason why she is an icon to so many queer femmes of every gender.

...

#UU
#DollyParton
#UnitarianUniversalist
#femme

Hey, uh... I'm already a bit entrenched in this subject, but something happened that makes me want to expand the offerings. Does anyone know of #liberal #catholic creators? Can be other #Christian too (#episcopal, #anglican #congregational #UnitarianUniversalist, #quaker are some other denoms I respect). I guess #EmilyWilson had said she doesn't care about immigrants or sex offense victims in a #Jubilee video, and I'm feeling betrayed and need to fill the void.

After a ~15 year hiatus, I've started going back to #unitarianuniversalist services. This morning we sung Blue Boat Home and it unlocked so many emotions. I think I need more of this in my life.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WhsXl1_rEwI

A Software Engineer Won a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6
#UnitarianUniversalist but ideally others will follow suit.

@AliceMarshall @IveyJanette Welp. Guess my own faith (UU)has been excluded from US military recognized religions. Someone needs to tell a lot of Senators and Congressmen.

“This restructuring of faith codes, which help identify service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.”
#UU #UnitarianUniversalist #Unitarian #Universalist #Humanist

Fun fact: Churches cost a lot of money to operate. One of the things I like about Congregationalists like the #UnitarianUniversalist congregations and #unitedchurchofchrist churches is that in the New England tradition we let all of our members know what that is, whether they like it or not.

As part of my ongoing commitment to reignite the level of religion in my life, I am attending a meeting about next week's Annual Meeting at my #UnitarianUniversalist congregation. A meta-meeting, if you will.

I'm not sure if I am sick or crazy.

It’s fun being #UnitarianUniversalist because I’m an atheist who was able to tell the cute little twinks with name badges who asked me if I wanted to go to a church on Sunday that I already belong to a church without a bit of dishonesty

I thought calling everyone “beloved” was a #unitarianuniversalist thing, but now it seems like every influencer is doing it.

My friends, -- Our chalice lighting for today:

Today we gather together in the spirit of love and truth. As we light the chalice, let us remember the things that can sometimes be easily overlooked.

We remember the quiet acts of kindness, the unspoken words of support that ripple outward in ways we may never know.
We honor the small courage it takes to stand up for what is right, even when it feels insignificant.
We remember the beauty in the ordinary, the wonder in the everyday.
We celebrate the quiet strength that resides within each of us, waiting to be discovered.
Let it be so. Amen.

#unitarianUniversalist #spirituality #courage

Tonight's chalice extinguishing:

We extinguish this flame,
but not the light of reflection,
not the warmth of community,
not the fire of commitment.

May we carry with us the gifts of this hour:
gratitude for where we come from,
humility about what we claim,
and courage to reach beyond borders—
in heart, in mind, and in action.

As we go out into a world divided by nation and name,
may we remember the deeper truth:
we all belong to one another.
May it be So.

#unitarianUniversalist #spirituality

"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society
cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. "

-- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,
-- "We Are All Bound Up Together", 1866

#unitarianUniversalist #spirituality #blackhistorymonth

Skipping church tonight.

I’m just not in a very “inherent worth and dignity of every person” place right now when a group of people rape children and another group of people protect the child rapists while calling librarians and educators “pedophiles” and “groomers.”

📚 #unitarianuniversalist