Past Services and Recordings
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
April 14, 2024
- The Peace Of Trees
- Rev. Fred Small, Guest Minister with Rev. Jim Lewis
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
This week’s Generosity Sunday recipient is the Durham Freedom School.
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"The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence," wrote Trappist monk and peace activist Thomas Merton. "The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. . . .It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful." As we work together for social and environmental justice, how do we remain grounded in a peaceful spirit? What can we learn from trees?
April 7, 2024
- Living Tradition Evolving
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Judith Ann Lyon-Mitchell – Cantor (9:00 am); Elias Gross – Viola (11:00 am); Joan Tilghman – Cantor (11:00 am); Kate Lewis – Pianist
March 31, 2024
- When Presence Becomes Visible
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett; Guest Speaker – Vanity Reid Deterville, LGBTQ Center of Durham
- Music: Eno River Singers; ERUUF Vocal Quartet; Paul Baerman – Oboe, Jim Van Verth – Percussion, Brandon Walker – Bass; Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
March 2024 Theme: Transformation
ONE SERVICE - 11:00 am
In this Sunday's multigenerational service we will mark the convergence of Easter and Transgender Day of Visibility. We invite celebration and also the sharing in a ritual Flower Ceremony: bring a flower(s) from your garden or elsewhere and leave with the gift of someone else's flower.
March 24, 2024
- Made For These Times
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Beloved Community Chorus (11:00 am); Special Music: Johann Montozzi-Wood; Kate Lewis – Pianist, Wendy Looker – Music Director
March 2024 Theme: Transformation
March 17, 2024
- Beyond Us
- Worship Leader: Rev. Jacqueline Brett
- Music: Eno River Singers (11:00 am), Kate Lewis – Pianist; Wendy Looker – Music Director
March 2024 Theme: Transformation
Worship Associate: Sarah Rose Nordgren (11:00 am)
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?
