What is essential to living a good life? What non-essentials continue to receive our energy and time? In this historical moment filled with ambiguity, unknowns, and endless distractions, it’s time to ground ourselves in the essentials. Join Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink for a reflection on what really matters.

The Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink serves as Assistant Minister at Foothills Unitarian Church in Fort Collins, Colorado. Prior to this, she served both in congregations and as a chaplain in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Charleston, South Carolina. Elaine enjoys hiking and biking in Northern Colorado with her two young children and her husband, Jason, who grew up in the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Butterfly” from Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, no. 1 by Edvard Grieg.  (Tate Plohr, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.“Om Mani Padme Hum” (ancient Sanskrit mantra) with “Amazing Grace” (words: John Newton, music: Columbian Harmony, 1829) and “‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple” (words: Joseph Bracket, music: American Shaker tune). Arrangement, audio production, and video production by Christopher Watkins Lamb.  Songs Public Domain, arrangement and video used by permission of Foothills Unitarian Church, Fort Collins, CO.
• “Meditation on Breathing” by Sarah Dan Jones. Music recorded by Rev. Christopher Watkins Lamb with piano from Dyane Rogelstad.  Filmed and edited by Rev. Christopher Watkins Lamb.  Song used by permission of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association).  Video used by permission of Foothills Unitarian Church, Fort Collins, CO.
  
• “Notturno” from Lyric Pieces, Op. 54, no. 4 by Edvard Grieg.  (Tate Plohr, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky.  (JeeYeon Plohr, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission. 
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

*“The Frog Prince,” by Chris Buice (used with permission)

Benediction by Jan Richardson from The Painted Prayerbook (janrichardson.com) (used with permission)

*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for October is the Roadrunner Food Bank. 

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink, Guest Speaker
• Rev. Gretchen Haley, Guest Speaker 
• Patrick Webb and Anne Marsh, Worship Associates
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Tate Plohr, piano
• JeeYeon Plohr, piano
• UU Virtual Singers: Alissa Grissom, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn, with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
• Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton, AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111042918/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20211024-Essential.mp3

We all know that endings and beginnings are a part of life, and yet change often leaves us with feelings of grief and loss. Join me in exploring the complexity of emotions that comes with times of transition and change.

Our prior guest speaker, Jenny McCready was married in August and returns to our pulpit today with a new last name, Jenny Amstutz. Jenny is currently serving as the minister of a small church in Littleton, Colorado, Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church, where she serves part time. Her part time schedule allows her to return to our pulpit. Jenny is the mother of five, ages 21 to 8 years and lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her new husband Jason and a menagerie of pets. She is grateful to continue to be a visiting presence in our church and looks forward to a continued relationship with UCLA.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “It Is Well with My Soul” by Philip P. Bliss, arranged by Mark Hayes. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “For All That Is Our Life,” words: Bruce Findlow, music: Patrick L. Rickey. Piano and singing by Jess Huetteman. Video used by permission of Jess Huetteman, song used by permission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).  
• “Find a Stillness,” words: Carol G. Seaburg, music: Transylvania hymn tune, harm. Larry Phillips.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).  
• “Open the Window” by Elise Witt, inspired by the Georgia Sea Islands spiritual “Heist the Window, Noah.” (Tina DeYoe & Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals; Eric Schaller, cajon.) Permission to stream ASCAP song #150066363 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “Landslide” by Stevie Nicks.  (Tina De Yoe, vocals & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream BMI song #420196809 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “My Favorite Things” (from The Sound of Music) by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein. (Tina DeYoe, vocals & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Permission to stream ASCAP song #430114253 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

“The Mystery of Life” by Robert G. Ingersoll.  Use under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License.
*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for October is the Roadrunner Food Bank. 
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Jenny Amstutz, Guest Speaker 
• Sue Watts, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education & Vocalist
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Eric Schaller, cajon
• UU Virtual Singers: Alissa Grissom, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn, with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
• Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton,  AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111042621/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20211017-Letting_Go.mp3

Presented by Rev. James Galasinski; Anne Marsh, Worship Associate; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music

The interdependent web of existence is central to who we are. We are all connected. We are entangled. These are scientific facts and theologically rich concepts worthy to be chewed on. So, quantum mechanics has a central place in our faith.

The Rev. James Galasinski is in his sixth year of settled ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton, NY. Before that he served the First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque and fell in love with the mesas, the mountains, and the red chile of New Mexico. James enjoys listening to jazz, growing tomatoes, writing poetry, and hiking with his wife, Ulrike, and their two sons, Miles and Oskar. He is excited to be back in Los Alamos as a pulpit guest.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!
New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Poeme Erotique” from Lyric Pieces (Lyriske stykker), Op. 43, No. 5 by Edvard Grieg. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “For the Earth Forever Turning” (also known as “Blue Green Hills of Earth”) by Kim Oler, arr. Nick Page. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream song #27231 in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “O Brother Sun,” (also known as “Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon”), trad. Scottish tune.  (Wade Wheelock, violin). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Turn the World Around” by Harry Belafonte, arr. Jason Shelton. (Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals & piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #2913155 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “All Creatures of Our God and King” (also known as “All Creatures of the Earth and Sky”), from Geistliche Kirchengesange, text attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, arranged by Cindy Berry. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Arietta” from Lyric Pieces (Lyriske stykker), Op. 12, No. 1 by Edvard Grieg. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.   
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES
*Chalice Lighting by Paul Sprecher (Worship Web)
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (traditional – public domain)
Reading from Gut Symmetries, by Jeanette Winterson, Vintage Books, 1998  (fair use)
Benediction by James Galasinski

*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for October is Roadrunner Food Bank.. 

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. James Galasinski, Guest Speaker 
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Wade Wheelock, violin
• UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111042252/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20211010-Spooky_Entanglement_and_Nonseparability.mp3

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6r1wCinnro]

Presented by Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon, Guest Speaker;  Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate;  and Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music

Where is the meaning of life to be found? Join us in a recounting of a journey of discovery, including wild strawberries, hitchhiking, a smidgen of philosophy, and one too many electric fences.

The Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon had the great privilege of studying with the Rev. John Cullinan at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. He has served a UU congregation in New Jersey before serving for six years in Northwest England, as minister for three Unitarian congregations in Wigan, Warrington, and Chester. He currently serves in New York as minister of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, and as an accredited spiritual director.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org  or call at 505-662-2346.

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“For the Beauty of the Earth,” words: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, music: Conrad Kocher, arr. Kenon D. Renfrow. (Yelena Mealy, piano).  Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948.  All rights reserved.

“Just as Long as I Have Breath,” words: Alicia S. Carpenter, music: Johann G. Ebeling, harmony rev. John Edwin Giles (Unitarian Church of Los Alamos Choir with Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Used by permission of the estate of Alicia S. Carpenter and the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association).

“Voice Still and Small” by John Corrado.  (Yelena Mealy, piano).  Used by permission of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association).

“The Lone, Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, tune: from William Walker’s Southern Harmony, based on harm. by Thomas Somerville, adapt, arr. & new material by Nylea L. Butler-Moore.  (UCLA Virtual choir; Wade Wheelock, violin; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director & piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Used by permission.

“On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson.  (Susan Gisler, vocals and tambourine;  John Eklund, acoustic guitar and vocals; & John Tauxe, mandolin).  Permission to stream BMI song #889280147 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Autumn Light” by Alice B. Kellogg.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore.  (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Used by permission.

    Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948.  All rights reserved.

    Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

“A Communion of Heart and Soul” by Bruce Southworth from UUA Worship Web*

Excerpt from ”Part of a Larger Life” by John Saxon from UUA Worship Web*

Excerpt from “The Ten-Principal Upanishads” put into English by Shree Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats

    *permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for October is the Roadrunner Food Bank.  100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering:  https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon, Guest Speaker
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Susan Gisler, vocals and tambourine
John Eklund, acoustic guitar and vocals
John Tauxe, mandolin
Yelena Mealy, piano
Unitarian Church of Los Alamos Choir: sopranos Cathy Hayes, Mia McLeod, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Tamson Smith; altos Mary Billen, Susan Gisler, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, KokHeong McNaughton, tenors & basses:  Mike Begnaud, Peter Bloser, Skip Dunn, Kathy Gursky, Shannon Scott, with Yelena Mealy, piano
UU Virtual Singers: Alissa Grissom, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn, with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell,  AV techs

Rev. Janet Newton is the senior minister at the First Parish Church of Berlin in Berlin, Massachusetts. Janet was born and raised Unitarian Universalist in the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, NM. She comes to ministry after many years as a high school English and philosophy teacher. Janet received a Masters in Divinity in May 2018 from Meadville Lombard Theological school.  For Janet, religion is a collaborative invitation to find, feed, and honor the spark of the sacred within every human heart, that we may know ourselves and our communities more deeply, and that we may make love more visible in the world. Her experiences have helped her develop a vision for church that uses worship, conversation, contemplation, and opportunities for lifelong learning and service to help us grow our souls, build community, and heal our world. She said she’s still a little amazed that her calling means she can live “an intentionally conscious spiritual life.”

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Morning Has Come,” trad. round. (Unitarian Church of Los Alamos Choir; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Song Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Blue Boat Home,” words: Peter Mayer; music: Roland Hugh Prichard, adapted by Peter Meyer. Created by Paul Thompson, Music Director at the UU Church of the Palouse, Moscow ID. Used by permission of the UUA.
• “To See a World,” words: William Blake, music: Norwegian tune, arr. Edvard Grieg. (UU Virtual Singers; Anne Marsh, reciter; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Song Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Rising Green” by Carolyn McDade, arr. Jim Scott.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission of the UUA.
• “The Lost Words Blessing” by Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux and Kerry Andrew.  (Janet Newton, vocalist.)  Images by Maria Thibodeau Photography, used by permission;  song used by permission of Adam Slough of JSL Productions.  
• “Petite Fleur” by Sidney Bechet. (Aaron Anderson, piano).  Permission to stream BMI song #1169027 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
•  “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

Permission granted from Danusha Laméris for use of “Thinking” via email, September 20, 2021
Permission granted from Katie Mack for use of “Disorientation” via email, August 14, 2021
*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for September is Lutheran Family Services. 
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Janet Newton, Guest Minister & vocalist 
• Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Unitarian Church of Los Alamos Choir: sopranos Cathy Hayes, Mia McLeod, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Tamson Smith; altos Mary Billen, Susan Gisler, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, KokHeong McNaughton, tenors & basses:  Mike Begnaud, Peter Bloser, Skip Dunn, Kathy Gursky, Shannon Scott, with Yelena Mealy, piano
• Aaron Anderson, piano
• UU Virtual Singers: Alissa Grissom, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn, with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111041553/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210926-Enter_the_Wild_with_Care_My_Love.mp3

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgy34qYPA80]

Presented by Guest Speaker, Jenny McReady Amstutz

A 12th-century Benedictine abbess, writer, poet, and composer, Hildegard had prophetic and mystical visions and is said to have been a miracle worker.  How do mystical experiences fit into our UU faith?

Our prior guest speaker, Jenny McCready was married last month and returns to our pulpit today with a new last name, Jenny Amstutz.  Jenny is currently serving as the minister of a small church in Littleton, Colorado, Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church, where she serves part time.  Her part time schedule allows her to return to our pulpit.  Jenny is the mother of five, ages 21 to 8 years and lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her new husband Jason and a menagerie of pets.  She is grateful to continue to be a visiting presence in our church and looks forward to a continued relationship with UCLA.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“Le Soir,” No. 1 from Deux Pièces by Louis Vierne. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano.) Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“Gaudeamus Hodie (Let Us Rejoice Today),” words: traditional, music: Natalie Sleeth.  (Nora Cullinan and Jess Cullinan, vocalists).  Permission to stream song #61290  in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“Be Thou My Vision,” words: Ancient Irish, music: trad. Irish melody.  (Wade Wheelock, violin). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“I Am that Great and Fiery Force,” words: Hildegard of Bingen; music: Josquin Deprez; adapted by Anthony Petti.  Guitar, vocals, and editing by Eli Sauls.  Percussion by Benjamini.  Video clips from Pixabay.  Permission granted through the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).

 “O Virtus Sapientiae” by Hildegard von Bingen.  (Choir, “Sophia’s Journey” of Jefferson Unitarian Church, Golden, CO.)  Song Public Domain.  YouTube video used by permission of Rev. Keith Arnold, Jefferson Unitarian Church Minister of Music.

“Légende,” No. 2 from Deux Pièces by Louis Vierne.  (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano.)  Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

    OTHER NOTES

Hildegard of Bingen: Scientist, Composer, Healer and Saint  by Demi (Wisdom Tales, April 7, 2019)  used with permission

*permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for September is Lutheran Family Services.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering:  https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Jenny McReady Amstutz, Guest Speaker 
Sue Watts, Worship Associate
Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Kathy Gursky, viola
Jess Cullinan & Nora Cullinan, vocalists
Wade Wheelock, violin
UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar  
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Turning sap into syrup takes attention and diligence and wouldn’t most of us agree it’s worth it? likewise, unfolding the meaning of our lives, sorting out one way of understanding for one that fits us better is a life-long undertaking worthy of our time and attention.

Rev. Linda Whittenberg is no stranger to us. She was a member here during the first years of Dale Arnink’s ministry and has visited to read from her several books of poems and to speak on numerous occasions. She has called Santa Fe home for 42 years, even during the years she served as minister in California and Washington. After her husband, Bob Wilber’s death in 2020, she moved to Colorado to be near her three children who all live in the Denver Area.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

• New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
  
• For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
• Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
• If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
  
• Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Beau Soir” by Claude Debussy. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “O Life That Maketh All Things New,” words: Samuel Longfellow, music: Thomas Williams’s Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Hymn Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “What Wondrous Love,” words: American folk hymn, music: melody from The Southern Harmony, 1835. (Wade Wheelock, violin). Hymn Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Find a Stillness,” words: Carl G. Seaburg, music: Transylvanian hymn tune, harm. Larry Phillips (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association).
• “Sicilienne,” Op. 78 by Gabriel Fauré. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission. 
• “Romance” by Claude Debussy. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for September is Lutheran Family Services. 
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Linda Whittenberg, Guest Speaker 
• Felicia Orth, Worship Associate
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Kathy Gursky, viola
• Wade Wheelock, violin
• UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111041002/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210912-Boiling_It_Down.mp3

“Now, anything that exists in history must have form. And the creation of a form requires power … not only the power of thought, but the power of organization and the organization of power.” Thus liberal religion rejects “the immaculate conception of virtue and affirms the necessity of social incarnation.” These words of James Luther Adams, the great 20th century Unitarian Universalist ethicist, describe one of his “five smooth stones” – basic principles of liberal religion that stand in place of elaborate theological doctrine. Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to celebrate in story and song the achievements of the U.S. Labor Movement – a powerful example of “social incarnation.”

The Rev. Dr. Suzanne Redfern-Campbell retired from active ministry in July 2018, having served Unitarian Universalist congregations since 1985. Her most recent full-time ministry was at the UU Church of Las Cruces, where she served five years as Developmental Minister. This past year, she did a two-month sabbatical ministry for the UU Fellowship of Fairbanks, Alaska. Sue came to ministry from the practice of law, and has served congregations in six states and one Canadian province. During her ministries, Sue discovered a passion for helping congregations in transition and is an Accredited Interim Minister. She landed in New Mexico after marrying her late husband, Chuck Campbell, on New Year’s Day 2012, and now lives in Albuquerque with a hyperactive rescue cat named Phoenix.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Let Us Break Bread Together,” trad. spiritual, arr. John Carter.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “De Colores,” trad. Mexican folk song. (Susan Gisler, vocals & acoustic guitar). Song Public Domain, video used by permission.  
• “One More Step” by Joyce Poley, harm. by Grace Lewis-McLaren. (Susan Gisler, vocals & acoustic guitar). Used by permission of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association). 
• “Step by Step, the Longest March,” Irish folk song, words from the preface to American Miners’ Association Constitution (1861). Recorded for the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City for its October 11, 2020 service. (Dave Rowe, vocals, acoustic guitar, & penny whistle and Stacey Guth, vocals). Used by permission of the UUA.
• “Nine to Five” by Dolly Parton. (Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals & piano). Permission to stream BMI song # 1068031 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “We Will Not Stop Singing” by The Chapin Sisters (Lily & Abigail). Song copyright The Chapin Sisters, published by sad pony music and foggy mountain music (ASCAP). Arranged by Adam Podd, featuring the First Unitarian Brooklyn Choir (with Dennis Wees, Kiena Williams, Brandon Hornsby-Selvin, and Candice Helfand-Rogers). Audio and video editing and production by Adam Podd.  Used by permission of the UUA.
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

 OTHER NOTES

* “Opening Words for Labor Day,” by the Rev. Megan Visser (used with permission)

* Meditation: “We Need One Another,” by George E. Odell (used with permission)

Photograph of Frances Perkins used with permission of the Frances Perkins Center.

* “Be a Pain” music and lyrics by Alastair Moock. Produced by Anand Nayak Recorded & Mixed by Andrew Oedel. From the album, “Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders.” Video produced and directed by Wishbone Zoe, based on album artwork by Tom Pappalardo.  Song Credits: Alastair Moock: lead vocals, acoustic guitar; Anand Nayak: electric guitar, background vocals; Paul Kochanski: electric bass; Scott Kessel: drums; Eric Royer: banjo; Jamie Walker: electric guitar; Sean Staples: background vocals; Kris Delmhorst: background vocals; Rani Arbo: background vocals; Mark Erelli: background vocals; Boston City Singers: background vocals.  

Reading: “Guiding Principles for a Free Faith: The Five Smooth Stones of Liberalism,” from On Being Human Religiously, by James Luther Adams (Beacon Press, 1976) (fair use)

* Benediction: “Commitment,” by Dorothy Day (used with permission)

*permission granted through the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association)

 OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for September is Lutheran Family Services.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Sue Redfern-Campbell, Guest Speaker
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Susan Gisler, vocals & acoustic guitar
• UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell, AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111040750/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210905-The_Power_of_Organization.mp3

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Presented by Guest Speaker, Rev. Sonya Sukalski

Many Unitarian Universalists exude a powerful love that moves us into the fullness of our spirits and integrity as Berkeley Process Theologian Bernie Loomer wrote about. In times of social stress and upheaval it is powerful and necessary to employ that love to marry the inevitable grief and loss that change brings with learning, growth, and the intangible gifts we usually uncover in challenging times. Rev. Sonya Sukalski who found Unitarian Universalism in the Los Alamos congregation has been working with a colleague to bring creative resilience to small groups in online retreats and trainings using this idea. The seeds for it may well have been planted by the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos during her time there around the turn of the millenium, and she will reflect on how those seeds took root and grew.

Rev. Sonya Sukalski grew up in Los Alamos, went away to Sweden and Rice University after high school, and returned with her mate, Mitch, to raise their twins, Sierra and Cheyenne until she left for seminary in 2003. Sonya served several congregations as sabbatical minister in Northern California and started the Spiritual Activists Leadership Training (SALT – now Spiritual Activists Leading Together) with the help of young adults across California from 2009-2013. She served the UU Fellowship of Tuolumne County most recently and greatly enjoyed being the closest congregation to Yosemite as she explored the Sierra Nevada over the past decade. During the pandemic she served as sabbatical minister for the UUs in Chico last Fall, and now is taking her own sabbatical.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

No. 1 from “Improvisations on Two Norwegian Folk Songs,” Op. 29 by Edvard Grieg. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“Woyaya” by Loughty Amoa, Solomon Amarfino, Robert M. Bailey, Roy Bedeau, Francis T. Osei, Whendell K. Richardson, and Mac Tonoh.  Video produced and recorded for Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse (UUCP) in Moscow, ID.  (Paul Thomspon: bass, vocals, programming, editing; Susan Thompson: vocals; Sam Welsh: keyboards.) Song and video used by permission.

“The Gift of Love,” (also known as “Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire”), words: Hal H. Hopson, music: trad. English melody, adapt. by Hal Hopson. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade, harm. Grace Lewis-McLaren, choral arrangement by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

“Gabriel’s Oboe” by Ennio Morricone. (David Watkins, cello & Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP Song #888271016 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“An Maigdean Ceannsa (The Gentle Maiden),” trad. Irish tune. (Linus Plohr, violin). Tune Public Domain, video used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

“Spilling the Light” from Spilling The Light: Meditations on Hope and Resilience by Theresa I. Soto.    Permission granted by the UUA.

The Party from Kindness:  A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents.   Permission granted by the author, Sarah Conover.

“A Blessing for Risk-Takers and Failures” by Robin Tanner.  Permission granted by UUA (UUA Worship Web).

Sermon Resources:

        My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
        Headspace App for meditation, sleep and movement
        Center For Engaged Compassion, 
                http://www.centerforengagedcompassion.com/
        out of the Claremont School of Theology. 
        Frank Roger’s book, Practicing Compassion
        Dynamic Neural Retraining System,  Instructional Online Course

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council.
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

   SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. Sonya Sukalski, Guest Speaker
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Yelena Mealy, piano
David Watkins, cello
Linus Plohr, violin
UU Virtual Singers: Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Jenni Gaffney, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell, AV techs

Presented by Rev. Joel Miller, Guest Speaker

“There are some moments when I get lost in resentment toward others — I can tell because I feel like I’m covered in fish guts. I’m grateful that I have a way to get past those moments and reconnect with my life, with others, and with the world.”

The Rev. Joel Miller is currently the Interim Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis. Since his graduation from Starr King School for the Ministry in 1991, Joel’s ministry has included opening and serving the Columbine UU church in Littleton, CO, for 7 years, serving as senior minister in Buffalo, NY, for 11 years, and serving as interim minister for 5 different UU congregations since 2011. He is an Accredited UUA Interim Minister and is also accredited as a Professional Transition Specialist by the Interim Ministry Network.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“North Cape” by Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream BMI song #29148068 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Come, Come, Whoever You Are,” words: adapt. from Rumi, music: Lynn Adair Ungar. (Vocalists Jess Huetteman, Chelsea Sardoni, and Morayo Akande). Used by permission.

“The Lone, Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, tune: from William Walker’s Southern Harmony, based on harm. by Thomas Somerville, adapt, arr. & new material by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UCLA Virtual choir; Wade Wheelock, violin; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director & piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

“For All That Is Our Life,” words: Bruce Findlow, music: Patrick L. Rickey. (Jess Huetteman, vocals and piano). Song and video used by permission.

“Epiphany” by Do Hyung Kwon, Si-Hyuk Bang, and Soo Hyun Park, arr. by Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #895506768 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Romanza in C Major” by Ferdinand Praeger. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

*Opening words by Lyn Cox
*Spoken and Silent Meditation by Wayne Arnason
Time for All Ages: The Story of Jonah (public domain)
Reading: “Against Dying” (poem), from Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar, Alice James Books, 2017. (Used with permission)
Chalice Lighting and Benediction by Joel Miller

*permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering.

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. Joel Miller, Guest Speaker
Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Kathy Gursky, viola
UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell, AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111040019/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210822-Some_Steps_Ive_Been_Glad_to_Take.mp3

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIUcxY_S6Kk]

Presented by Rev. Joel Miller, Guest Speaker

“There are some moments when I get lost in resentment toward others — I can tell because I feel like I’m covered in fish guts. I’m grateful that I have a way to get past those moments and reconnect with my life, with others, and with the world.”

The Rev. Joel Miller is currently the Interim Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis. Since his graduation from Starr King School for the Ministry in 1991, Joel’s ministry has included opening and serving the Columbine UU church in Littleton, CO, for 7 years, serving as senior minister in Buffalo, NY, for 11 years, and serving as interim minister for 5 different UU congregations since 2011. He is an Accredited UUA Interim Minister and is also accredited as a Professional Transition Specialist by the Interim Ministry Network.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at  http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“North Cape” by Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream BMI song #29148068 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Come, Come, Whoever You Are,” words: adapt. from Rumi, music: Lynn Adair Ungar. (Vocalists Jess Huetteman, Chelsea Sardoni, and Morayo Akande). Used by permission.

“The Lone, Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, tune: from William Walker’s Southern Harmony, based on harm. by Thomas Somerville, adapt, arr. & new material by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UCLA Virtual choir; Wade Wheelock, violin; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director & piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

“For All That Is Our Life,” words: Bruce Findlow, music: Patrick L. Rickey. (Jess Huetteman, vocals and piano). Song and video used by permission.

“Epiphany” by Do Hyung Kwon, Si-Hyuk Bang, and Soo Hyun Park, arr. by Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #895506768 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Romanza in C Major” by Ferdinand Praeger. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

*Opening words by Lyn Cox
*Spoken and Silent Meditation by Wayne Arnason
Time for All Ages: The Story of Jonah (public domain)
Reading: “Against Dying” (poem), from Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar, Alice James Books, 2017. (Used with permission)
Chalice Lighting and Benediction by Joel Miller

*permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering.

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. Joel Miller, Guest Speaker
Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Kathy Gursky, viola
UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell, AV techs

In a dominant culture that fetishizes crime and punishment while remaining apathetic to the failures of the penal system, our Unitarian Universalist theologies remind us that we can rely on deeper truths of goodness and mercy that still hold each of us accountable in and to the interdependent web of life.

Rev. Allison Farnum is the Minister and Director at the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois, a statewide ministry that focuses on equipping UU’s to in Illinois to transform institutions and support people harmed by the prison industrial complex. An affiliated community minister with 2U, Rev. Allison lives in Evanston, IL and is loving partner to Andy and mother of their two children Joey (4) and Charlotte (7). For more information about UUPMI, please visit www.uupmi.org

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions?  While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at: office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• Courante from Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 by J.S. Bach. (Ursula Coe, cello). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “I Wish I Knew How” by Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas, arr. by Mary Allen Walden. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission of UUA.
• “Comfort Me” by Mimi Bornstein-Doble. (Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission of UUA.
• “Psalm 23,” official hand drawn lyric video by Tamara Lebak from The Psalms Project, vol. 1.  (Tamara Lebak, vocals and acoustic guitar & Bonnie Lebak, cajon). Used by permission of Tamara Lebak.
• “Tango Para Ilaria” from Two Tangos for Solo Cello by Carter Brey. (Ursula Coe, cello). Permission to stream BMI song #16315445 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

 OTHER NOTES

• Chalice Lighting by Rev. Bill Neely and Patrick Webb.  Used by permission.
• Prayer and Meditation by Rev. Allison Farnum. Used by permission.
• “Hey, Ain’t That Good News” by John Corrado. Used by permission of UUA WorshipWeb. https://www.uua.org/worship/words/reading/183438.shtml 
• Excerpt from No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield,  Atria Books, ISBN13: 9781451693706. Fair Use.

 OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Allison Farnum, Guest Speaker
• Patrick Webb, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Ursula Coe, cello
• Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar
• UU Virtual Singers: Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Jenni Gaffney, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell, AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111035853/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210815-Goodness_and_Mercy.mp3

As humans, we crave togetherness with others. But the key to the happiest relationships (as well as peace within oneself) is learning how to hold healthy boundaries and differentiate between what is our responsibility and what is the responsibility of others. Come hear what Dr. Murray Bowen and Johnny Castle from Dirty Dancing can teach us about this liberating skill.  

The Rev. Joanna Fontaine Crawford is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist and a student and teacher of Bowen Family Systems Theory. She has served Live Oak UU Church in Austin, TX since 2014, following ministry at the First UU Church of Houston, and the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Her parents lived in Edgewood, NM, for many years, and she dearly misses visits there to load up on roasted green chiles and biscochitos, and to answer “Christmas!” when ordering dinner.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book:  Virtual Prayer Book

Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“Danses” by J. Guy Ropartz. (Anna Batista, oboe & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“This Little Light of Mine,” African American spiritual. (Tina DeYoe, vocals & Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals and piano). Used by permission. 

“To See a World,” words: William Blake; music: Norwegian tune, arr. Edvard Grieg. (UU Virtual Singers with Yelena Mealy, piano; Anne Marsh, reciter; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  NASA photographs Public Domain.  Video used by permission.

“Romanzen,” Op. 94, #1. Nicht schnell by Robert Schumann. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission. 

“From All the Fret and Fever of the Day,” words: Monroe Beardsley, music: Cyril V. Taylor. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Permission to stream the music of song #101164 in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“Pastorale” by J. Guy Ropartz. (Anna Batista, oboe & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

    OTHER NOTES

*permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council.

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Rev. Joan Fontaine Crawford, Guest Speaker 
Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Yelena Mealy, piano
Anna Batista, oboe
Tina DeYoe, vocals
Kathy Gursky, viola
UU Virtual Singers: Alissa Grissom, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111035551/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210808-Self-Differentiation.mp3

When we are young we think we have to figure out what we want to become, but becoming is something we do from the moment we are born until our last day on earth. We can’t control the future, but we can control our intentionality around what we become.

Jenny McCready returns as our visiting worship leader from Lakewood, Colorado. She is in the last stages of pursuing fellowship with the UUA and hopes to be an ordained UU minister by the end of the year.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “You That Have Spent the Silent Night,” words: George Gascoigne, music: Nikolaus Herman, harmony: J.S. Bach. (UU Virtual Singers with Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.
• “Just as Long as I Have Breath,” music: Johann G. Ebeling, harmony rev. John Edwin Giles. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Used by permission.
• “For the Earth Forever Turning” (aka “Blue Green Hills of Earth”) by Kim Oler, arr. by Nick Page. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream song #27231 in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “I Know This Rose Will Open” by Mary E. Grigolia. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission.
• Three traditional Irish reels: “Drowsy Maggie,” “The Cabin Hunter,” and “The Wind Shakes the Barley.” (Patrick Webb, fiddle) Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “The Buzzard,” trad. fiddle tune. (Patrick Webb, fiddle). Music Public Domain, video used by permission. 
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

• Prayer/Meditation: “Be The Blessing You Already Are” by Rev’s John Gibb Millspaugh and Sarah Gibb Millspaugh*
• Time for All Ages:  There by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, read on Bookishlicious Chamber website; published by Roaring Book Press.  Used with permission from Macmillan Press for read aloud purposes.
• Reading: excerpt from Women Out of Order by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner (Fair Use)
• “Becoming Ourselves” by Rev. Amanda Poppei from Braver/Wiser*

*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for July is Tewa Women United. 
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Jenny McCready, Guest Speaker 
• Sue Watts, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Patrick Webb, fiddle
• UU Virtual Singers: Nina Lanza, Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111034959/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210718-Never_Finished.mp3

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It started with an email labeled “urgent need for help” from an 88-year-old Deming member of the Silver City UU Fellowship. And who could say ’no’ to Thelma? 

Barbara Gabioud is a long-term member of the Silver City Unitarian Fellowship, and a caring coordinator of humanitarian relief efforts at the Palomas shelter.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our Guest Book and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at: http://www.uulosalamos.org  –  or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book:  Virtual Prayer Book

Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at:  office@uulosalamos.org.

    MUSIC CREDITS

“With God on Our Side” by Bob Dylan. (Joe Neri, vocals & guitar). Permission to stream SESAC song #514899 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Morning Has Broken,” Gaelic melody, intro and interludes by Ysuf Islam/Cat Stevens. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #430394424 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple,” American Shaker tune. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.

“De Colores,” trad. Spanish folk song, arr. Betty A Wylder. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.

“Deportee” by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman. (Joe Neri, vocals; Barbara Gabioud, mountain dulcimer; Rob Gabioud, cajón.) Permission to stream BMI song #293946in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Soul Shine” by Warren Haynes.(Joe Neri, vocals; Barbara Gabioud, mountain dulcimer; Rob Gabioud, cajón.) Permission to stream BMI song #482058753 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

    OTHER NOTES

Welcoming words began with “We Have Come into this Room of Hope” by Libbie D. Stoddard*

Chalice lighting words are from “To Face the World’s Shadows” by Lindsay Bates*

The prayer was a portion of the poem “Courage–It takes More” by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers*

The story was “How Coyote Lost his Songs, Music, and Dance” by Kenneth W. Collier*

The reading was a meditation “The Courage of Patience” by Richard S. Gilbert*

The benediction was “The World is Too Beautiful” by Eric Williams*

*permission granted through the UUA

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for July is  Tewa Women United. 

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering:  https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Barbara Gabioud, Guest Speaker and mountain dulcimer
Felicia Orth, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Joe Neri, vocals & guitar
Rob Gabioud, cajón
UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton,  AV techs

Presented by  Mix’alh Adams, and Mike Adams 

What is July 4?  For many, it is a chance to see family, fireworks, and celebrate our independence from the British crown, or more generally to revel in patriotic sentiment.  However, if we look just under the surface, the US’ 4th of July might mean many things to many people, some good, some bad, and some contradictory.  Join Mix’alh Adams, and Mike Adams for the church’s first in-person service since the great 2020 pandemic arrived.

Mix’alh and Mike are Indigenous North Americans, they are Lil’wat people from the area near Whistler, BC, Canada.  Both grew up in the USA, but have fostered relationships with their Canadian family.  Mike works in National Security, and Mix’alh considers himself a modern socialist.  Come explore the 4th of July, this year, with Mix’alh and Mike.

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org  or call at  505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

   MUSIC CREDITS

“We Gather Together,” words: Dorothy Caiger Senghas and Robert E. Senghas, music: Adrian Valerius’s Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck, arr. Edward Kremser. (UU Virtual Singers with Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer).  Used by permission.

“Soon the Day Will Arrive,” words: Ehud Manor, music: Nurit Hirsch. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano).  Used by permission.

“Break Not the Circle,” words: Fred Kaan, music: Thomas Benjamin. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Music used by permission.

“O Liberating Rose,” words: Mark L. Belletini, music: Larry Phillips. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano).  Used by permission.

“The Democratic Hornpipe,” trad. American. (Wade Wheelock, violin).  Music Public Domain, video used by permission.

“This Is What Democracy Looks Like,” a rally-ready protest chant, with additional lyrics by Elizabeth Alexander. (Twin Cities Justice Choir).  Used by permission.

“The Way,” words: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore.  (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer).  Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

Chalice Lighting by Oberlin UU Fellowship, Oberlin, OH.  Used by permission, from UUA Worship Web.

Excerpt from “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglas, July 1852, Rochester.

“Fire, Water, Truth and Falsehood” An Ethiopian tale, retold by Heather Forest in Wisdom Tales from around the World (Little Rock, ARK: August House, Inc., 1996).  Used by permission, from UUA Tapestry of Faith

Slide with quote by George Odell. Used by permission, from UUA Worship Web.

“Be True, Be Well, Be Loving” by Cynthia Landrum.  Used by permission, from UUA Worship Web. 

“It Matters What We Believe” by Sophia Lyons Fahs.  Permission granted for worship use.

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for July is Tewa Women United:

https://tewawomenunited.org

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Mike Adams & Mix’alh Adams, Guest Speakers
Rebecca Howard & Jamie Cullhost, Worship Associates
Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano
Wade Wheelock, violin
UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Nina Lanza, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Yelena Mealy, piano  
Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111034256/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210704-What_Is_July4.mp3

There’s a good reason this topic just won’t go away and can’t get solved: it involves a clash of two fundamental human rights. That makes discussion, debate, and legislation really hard. Understanding this is crucial to any hope we might have of civic peace and social justice.

The Rev. Christine Robinson was the senior minister at First Unitarian in Albuquerque for 28 years until her retirement four years ago. Christine estimates that she has been a guest speaker in Los Alamos 30 times in those years, and we’re delighted to welcome her back for #31!

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• Concerto in G minor for Two Cellos, RV 531 by Antonio Vivaldi. (Ursula Coe and Dana Winograd, cellos & Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Come, Thou Fount,” words: Robert Robinson, Eugene B. Navias, music: John Wyeth, Repository of Sacred Music, Part II, arr. Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals & piano). Used by permission.
• “Winds Be Still,” music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Comfort Me” by Mimi Bornstein-Doble. (Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar and Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
• “Sally’s Pigeons” by Cyndi Lauper and Mary Chapin Carpenter. (Maura Taylor, vocals & Tyler Taylor, acoustic guitar). Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “Song without Words,” Op. 102, No. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn.  (Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Words and music Public Domain, video used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

• Time for All Ages: “Free and Responsible Thinking,” by Christine Robinson
• Reading from “Leeches, Lye and Spanish Fly,” by Kate Manning (NY Times January 21, 2013), with statistics from The Guttmacher Institute “Facts on Induced Abortion” (fair use)
• Photographs of women from Unsplash; used with permission.

*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for June is JJAB (Juvenile Justice Advisory Board) 
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Christine Robinson, Guest Speaker
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Ursula Coe and Dana Winograd, cellos
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar
• Maura Taylor, vocals & Tyler Taylor, acoustic guitar
• UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111033711/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210627-Abortion_Complexity.mp3

Rev. Jake Morrill, Guest Speaker  |  Felicia Orth, Worship Associate

American physicist Alvin Weinberg was Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as a thoughtful amateur philosopher on the implications of his own work.  One of the ways he made sense of his involvement in the development of nuclear weapons was to propose the concept of “The Sanctification of Hiroshima.”  Guest preacher Jake Morrill has served the UU congregation in Oak Ridge for almost twenty years, and knew Dr. Weinberg personally.  This morning, he’ll share Weinberg’s concept as an invitation to reflect religiously upon the legacy of nuclear weapons.

Since 2003, Jake Morrill has served as Lead Minister of the Oak Ridge UU Church in East Tennessee.  A licensed therapist and former Chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve, he is Associate Faculty at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family.  He and his wife, Molly, have two school-age children, three cats, and a dog.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan. (Tina DeYoe, vocals & ukulele). Permission to stream SESAC song # 514662 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “Be Thou My Vision,” trad. Irish melody. (Wade Wheelock, violin).  Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “The Lone Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, tune: from William Walker’s Southern Harmony, based on harm. by Thomas Somerville, adapt, arr. & new material by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director and piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.
• “Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade, harm. by Grace Lewis-McLaren, choral arr. by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director & piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.
• “Song of Hope for 2021” by Christine Smellow.  (Christine Smellow, piano; images by Christine Smellow and Helen Nissani). Used by permission.  
• “Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen,” D. 343 by Franz Schubert. (Valerie Collins, flute and Yelena Mealy, piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Words and music Public Domain, video used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

“A Symbol of Learning and Love” by Elizabeth Harding*

“The Breath of Life Is Not Mine Alone” by Kristen L. Harper* 

    *permission granted through the UUA

Transition Photos by Felicia Orth.  They were taken by her during the “Infinity Mirrors” exhibition of the work of Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生), born March 22, 1929.

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for June is JJAB (Juvenile Justice Advisory Board).

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Jake Morrill, Guest Speaker
• Felicia Orth, Worship Associate
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education & musician
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Valerie Collins, flute & Yelena Mealy, piano
• UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Yelena Mealy, piano  
• Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton,  AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111033332/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210620-The_Sanctification_of_Hiroshima.mp3

In Paulo Coelho’s novel, Brida, the main character says, “I’m afraid of committing myself.” Coelho writes, “She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.” How can making commitments help us focus and keep us on the paths we choose to travel? Is it better to commit to the wrong thing than commit to nothing?

Jenny McCready is our visiting worship leader from Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, her hometown. She just completed seminary at Meadville Lombard Theological School (Rev. John’s alma mater) and is in discernment about her next steps into chaplaincy or parish ministry. She is in the last stages of pursuing fellowship with the UUA and hopes to be an ordained UU minister by the end of the year. Jenny has four biological children (Devon 21, Grainne 17, Conall 13, and Cliodna 11), and has become a mother to her fiance’s 7 year old, Kyle as well. Jenny and Jason plan to be married this summer and continue to live in Lakewood with most of their combined collection of offspring, and a pet menagerie of three dogs, two rabbits and a pig named Maisy. Any moments that Jenny is not studying and working, you will find her learning to play her new banjo and hiking in the foothills. Jenny and Jason love New Mexico and visited UULA during the summer of 2019. She is excited to be back and nurture her connection with our UULA community.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• Two traditional Irish tunes: “Chattering Magpie” and “Lark in the Morning.” (Patrick Webb, fiddle). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Woyaya” by Loughty Amoa, Solomon Amarfino, Robert M. Bailey, Roy Bedeau, Francis T. Osei, Whendell K. Richardson, and Mac Tonoh.  Video produced and recorded for Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse (UUCP) in Moscow, ID.  (Paul Thomspon: bass, vocals, programming, editing; Susan Thompson: vocals; Sam Welsh: keyboards.) Song and video used by permission.
• “Voice Still and Small” by John Corrado.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
• “Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade, harm. by Grace Lewis-McLaren. (Kathy Gursky, viola and Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
• “Move On” from Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim.  Video used by permission; produced by the music ministry of Jefferson Unitarian Church, Golden, CO.  Laura Lizut, soprano; Rev. Keith Arnold, Minister of Music, JUC, tenor; Adam Revell, pianist. Permission to stream ASCAP song #430355681 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “How Can I Keep from Singing” by Robert Lowry. Music arranged, orchestrated, produced, and mixed by Adam & Matt Podd. Video produced and edited by Joe Gabriel. Additional audio editing from Jonnie Dredge.  (The Podd Brothers, piano;  instrumentalists and singers from Grace Chorale of Brooklyn, First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, and First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn). Used by permission.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Words and music Public Domain, video used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

Words accompanying chalice lighting by Rev. Leslie Takahashi: used with permission
Excerpt from Paul Rasor’s  Faith Without Certainty Skinner House Books, UUA used with permission from UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for June is JJAB (Juvenile Justice Advisory Board)
100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Jenny McCready
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Religious Education
• Sue Watts, Worship Associate
• Patrick Webb, fiddle
• Kathy Gursky, viola
• UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Yelena Mealy, piano  
• Mike Begnaud, Rick Bolton, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111033020/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210613-Just_Pick_Something.mp3

News reports, social media and communications with family, friends and even strangers have been rife with malicious, harsh, judgmental, and unkind exchanges. Susan Gisler will be exploring some thoughts about skillful ways of speech that have come from the Buddhist tradition as well as recent works that deal with non violent communication. Can observing and changing our own speech habits be part of a practice that leads to a more compassionate world?

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!
New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346.
Connect with us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Gravy Waltz” by Steve Allen and Ray Brown. (Aaron Anderson, keyboard). Permission to stream BMI song #370070290 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “We Would Be One,” words: Samuel Anthony Wright, music: Jean Sibelius, arr. Eli Sauls. (Eli Sauls, vocals, guitar, and video editing). Used by permission. 
• “Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade, harm. by Grace Lewis-McLaren, choral arr. by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.
• “Blackberry Blossom,” trad. fiddle tune. (Joy Charles, cello & Aaron Anderson, piano.) Used by permission.
• “Sound Over All Waters,” words: John Greenleaf Whittier, alt., music: Welsh melody from John Roberts’s Caniadau y Cyssegr, arr. Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano & vocals). Used by permission.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place.” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. From Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

OTHER NOTES
Reading: from “Say what you Mean” by Oren Jay Sofer.

OFFERTORY
Our Share the Plate partner for June is Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB). We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Susan Gisler, Guest Speaker
• Jamie Cull-Host, Worship Associate
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Aaron Anderson, piano
• Joy Charles, cello
• UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Yelena Mealy, piano
• Renae Mitchell, Mike Begnaud, and Rick Bolton, AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111032646/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210603-Right_or_Wise_Speech.mp3

I like The Lion King, The Monkey King, and Horton the elephant. These stories tell me about humans. When I compare the stories with the real animals, I learn even more about humans. As a child, I learned from my friend Nellie, the elephant who lived across the street from my childhood home in South Africa, and I wonder why there is not a story about The Elephant Queen.

Mike McNaughton was born in South Africa and has lived and worked in many places in Africa and Asia. He has been a member of our church for more than 40 years.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our Virtual Prayer Book.
For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Turn the World Around” by Harry Belafonte. (Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals & piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #2913155 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
•  “When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place” by Joyce Poley, arr. Lorne Kellett.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission.
• “Come, Come, Whoever You Are,” words: adapt. from Rumi, music: Lynn Adair Ungar. (Vocalists Jess Huetteman, Chelsea Sardoni, and Morayo Akande). Used by permission. 
• “L’Éléphant” from “Le Carnaval des Animaux,” R.125 by Camille Saint-Saëns. (JeeYeon Plohr & Tate Plohr, 4-hands piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Siyahamba (We Are Marching),” trad. South African. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream song #96978 in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Baby Elephant Walk” by Hal David & Henry Mancini. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP song #320113695 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place.” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. From Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

Reading: “The Guest House,” by Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson. Public domain.

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for May is Espanola Pathways Shelter.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Mike McNaughton, Guest Speaker
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Tate Plohr & JeeYeon Plohr, piano
• UU Virtual Singers: Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn with Yelena Mealy, piano
• Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111031848/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210530-MEGA-Make_Elephants_Great_Again.mp3

A moral compass is a set of personal values that guide our decision making. Sherry Hardage will explore deep corruption in America and the ethical assumptions used to justify it.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP9RUq5fm70]

SERVICE NOTES

    WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is available for virtual and phone appointments. Contact him at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

    MUSIC CREDITS

“Simple Gifts,” trad. Shaker hymn, arr. Liz Story. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream BMI song #899596224 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“We Sing of Golden Mornings,” words: Ralph Waldo Emerson, music: William Walker’s Southern Harmony.  (Wade Wheelock, violin). Music Public Domain.

“Be Thou My Vision,” words: trad. Irish, trans. Mary E. Byrne, versed by Eleanor H. Hull; music: trad. Irish melody, harm. by Carlton R. Young. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“How Happy Are They,” words: Henry Wotton, music: William Knapp. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.

“Satisfied Mind” by Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes. (Maura Taylor, vocals & Tyler Taylor, guitar.) Permission to stream BMI song #1291236 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“Richard Cory” by Paul Simon. (Maura Taylor, vocals & Tyler Taylor, guitar.) Permission to stream BMI song #1249332 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

“As We Leave This Friendly Place.” words: Vincent B. Silliman, music: J.S. Bach, adapt. From Chorale 38. (UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

    OTHER NOTES

“Train of Life” by Victor di Suvero, from the 2018 volume of the Live Poets’ Society. Used by permission.

“A Person Will Worship Something” Ralph Waldo Emerson (UUA Worship Web)

“Take Courage, Friends”  Rev. Wayne B. Arnason (UUA Worship Web)

Brief quotes in sermon from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  by Yuval Noah Harari.  Israel:  Dvir Publishing House Ltd., 2011 (in Hebrew); 2014 (in English)

    OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for April is for the scholarship fund for our partner church in Fenyokut, Romania. 100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner church to help fund secondary education for the youth of the church.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

    SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

Sherry Hardage, Guest Speaker
Sue Watts, Worship Associate
Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Wade Wheelock, violin
Maura Taylor, vocals & Tyler Taylor, guitar
UU Virtual Singers & Yelena Mealy, piano
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

How do we navigate our values in a time of xenophobia and extreme tribalism? What does radical hospitality look like? How deep does our generosity extend to those not of our tribe? There are no easy answers. As one of my teachers used to say, don’t simplify, complexify.

We are pleased to welcome the Rev. Munro Sickafoose back to our congregation as our February pulpit guest. Munro holds a Master of Divinity degree from Starr King School for the Ministry, and is a community minister serving Santa Fe, Taos, and the surrounding areas. His ministry focuses on healing the human relationship with the Earth, and preparing our communities for the many serious challenges we face in the decades ahead.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBF6ZAJsQdM]

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

• New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
  
• For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
• Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
• Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is available for virtual and phone appointments. Contact him at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

MUSIC CREDITS

• Cello Concerto in C Major, VIIb, mov. I by Franz Joseph Haydn. (Anna Perlak, cello & Yelena Mealy, piano).  Public Domain.
  
• “Kum ba Yah (Come by Here),” African American spiritual. (Ellie Gisler Murphy, vocals & Susan Gisler, guitar & vocals). Public Domain.
  
• “Break Not the Circle,” words: Fred Kaan, music: Thomas Benjamin. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Music used by permission.
  “We’re Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table,” traditional, arr. Mary Allen Walden. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
• “Draw the Circle Wide,” words: Gordon Light, music: Mark A. Miller. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).
  Permission to stream song #101422 in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences,” Op. 41, #17 (b.1), and “Poem,” Op. 41, #14 (b.4)
  by Zdenek Fibich.  (Yelena Mealy, piano).  Public Domain.
  
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UCLA choir & Yelena Mealy, piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Public Domain.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for February is Strong in Nature. 100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.
We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Munro Sickafoose, Guest Speaker
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, piano & Anna Perlak, cello
• Ellie Gisler Murphy, vocals & Susan Gisler, guitar & vocals
• UCLA Virtual Choir
• Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

Presented by Theresa Cull. Theresa will give some reflections on the past year. She has been a member of the church for about 25 years, is currently serving on the Board of Directors as the Steward, and she is one of this year’s Youth (YRUU) Advisors.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bwh5TGy2M]

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” trad. Polish carol, arr. Christopher Ruck and “He Is Born,” trad. French carol, arr. Brian Dean.  (Ursula Coe, cello & Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream the arrangements in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “The Morning Hangs a Signal,” words: William Channing Gannett, music: William Lloyd. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Public Domain.
• “The Lone Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, music: William Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Ring Out Wild Bells,” text: Alfred Lord Tennyson, music: Percy Carter Buck. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Auld Lang Syne,” words: Robert Burns, music: trad. Scottish. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Deck the Halls,” trad. Welsh carol, arr. Richard Walters. (Ursula Coe, cello & Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream the arrangement in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UCLA Choir with Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.)  Public Domain.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

OTHER NOTES

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for December is Self Help, Inc.  Since 1969, Self Help has been serving Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Taos, and northern Santa Fe counties by providing emergency financial assistance and seed grants to residents in need. They have been a primary mode of charitable outreach for several Los Alamos churches, including the Unitarian Church.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Theresa Cull, Guest Speaker
• Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
• Jamie Cull Host, Time for All Ages
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• Urusla Coe, cello
• Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

How we remember someone is influenced by the time and social group we are in. Just think how collective memories of Lincoln and Columbus have changed over time. How we remember Trump now may help our country and democracy heal.

The Rev. James Galasinski is in his 5th year of settled ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton, NY. Before that he served the First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque for two years, where he fell in love with the mesas, the mountains, and the red chile of New Mexico. James enjoys listening to jazz, growing tomatoes, writing poetry, and hiking with his wife Ulrike and their two sons, Miles and Oskar. He is excited to be back in Los Alamos as a pulpit guest.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Asx5vrDMY]

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS

• Three Traditional Jigs: “Toss the Banjo,” “Mug of Brown Ale,” and “Jump the Sun.” (Patrick Webb, fiddle). Public Domain.
• “We Would Be One,” words: Samuel Anthony Wright, music: Jean Sibelius, arr. from The Hymnal, 1933. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Words Public Domain. Permission to stream this music obtained from OneLicense with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Thanks Be for These,” words: Richard Seward Bilter & Joyce Timmerman Gilbert; music: Hungarian melody, arr. Robert L. Sanders. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission.
• “Filled with Loving Kindness,” words: trad. Buddhist meditation, adapt. Mark W. Hayes, music: Ian W. Riddell.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, vocals & piano). Used by permission.
• Irish Medley: “I’ll Remember You Love, in My Prayers” by W. S. Hays; “Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill (Fair Mild Eilli O’Carroll)” by a 17th century harper; minor key reprise of “I’ll Remember You Love, in My Prayers.” (Patrick Webb, fiddle). Public Domain.  
• “The Democratic Rage Hornpipe,” trad. American tune. (Wade Wheelock, violin). Public Domain.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38.  (UCLA choir & Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Public Domain.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

SPOKEN WORDS AND VISUALS

• “Chalice Lighting for Challenging Times,” by Rev. Lisa Doege (permission from UUA Worship Web)
• Reading: from the Tao Te Ching, chapter 54 
• “Love Not Hate,” photograph by Robert Jones (Pixabay)

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. James Galasinski
• Anne Marsh & Wade Wheelock, Worship Associates
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, Pianist
• Patrick Webb, Fiddle
• Wade Wheelock, Violin
• Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O72Ln7e3Jg]

Presented by the Reverend Christine Robinson (Guest Minister), Nylea Butler-Moore (Director of Music), and Rebecca Howard (Worship Associate).

Rev. Robinson says, “We are often told that the good life is one of “being in the moment,” always aware of what is going on around us in the world.  Dogs are really good at that, and it is one of the things we love them for.  But people are more complicated than dogs because we have an inner life … which we also need to “listen” to and learn from.“

Rev. Robinson was the senior minister at First Unitarian in Albuquerque for 28 years until she retired 3 years ago.  She estimates that she has been a guest speaker at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos at least 30 times in those years.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS:

“The Gift of Love,” trad. English melody, Hal H. Hopson, arr. John Carter. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream this music (#9269) obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“From All the Fret and Fever of the Day,” words: Monroe Beardsley, music: Cyril V. Taylor. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to stream this music (#101164) obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

“Spirit of Life,” words and music: Carolyn McDade, harm: Grace Lewis-McLaren, choral arr: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UCLA choir & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Used by permission.

“Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life,” words: George Herbert, music: Ralph Vaughan Williams. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.

“A Plaintive Melody,” words: William Wordsworth, music: M.C.H. Davis, adapt, arr. & intro and interludes by Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UCLA choir with Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Used by permission.

“Autumn Light” by Alice B. Kellogg. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.

“As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UCLA choir & Yelena Mealy, piano; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Public Domain.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

OFFERTORY:

Our Share the Plate partner for October is Lutheran Family Services, in support of their work with refugees and asylum seekers building new lives in New Mexico.  100% of all offered this month will be given to LFS.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS:

Rev. Christine Robinson, Guest Minister
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music 
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
UCLA Choir
Kathy Gursky, viola
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

New to our church community?  Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected. 

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 5050-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister?  Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Susannah Sudborough, Nylea Butler-Moore, and Anne Marsh

Pulpit guest Susannah Sudborough will share some of what she has learned through her experiences as a journalist during the pandemic and how those lessons are shaping her understanding of our tumultuous world.
Susannah is a Boston-based web and print journalist who has worked for several area papers and TV stations. She is currently the sole news reporter for the Taunton Daily Gazette, so she covers all topics relevant to the city other than sports. She grew up a Unitarian Universalist in Canton, New York, and feels privileged to have been influenced by her childhood ministers, Anne Marsh and Wade Wheelock. Her parents, Nelly Case and Stephen Ledoux, are members of the Los Alamos UU church, and her birth father, Ned Sudborough, was a Santa Fe UU before his passing, so she’s spent a lot of time in the area and loves visiting New Mexico.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC:
“Crossing to Ireland,” trad. Irish tune. (Wade Wheelock, violin). Public domain.
“When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place,” words & music: Joyce Poley, arr. Lorne Kellett. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
“Here on the Paths of Everyday,” words: Edwin Markham, music: William Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
“Flowers (Eurydice’s Song),” words and music by Anaïs Mitchell. (Susannah Sudborough, vocals & Nelly Case, piano). Permission to podcast/stream ASCAP song #881116691 obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
“Adagio cantabile,” from Sonata Pathetique, Op.13, by Ludwig van Beethoven. (Nelly Case, piano). Public domain.
“As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38. (UCLA Choir; Yelena Mealy, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer). Public Domain.
— Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
— Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

WORDS:
Chalice Lighting by Charles A. Howe – from the UUA’s online worship collection, used with permission.
Prayer by Dennis Hamilton, First Days Record, used with permission of author.
Time for All Ages: “Orpheus and Euydice,” used with permission of Cambridge School Classics Project, University of Cambridge (UK). 

OTHER NOTES:
Flower and Mask Photo – Engin Akyurt (Pixabay copyright-free images)
New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.
Sign up for a Sanctuary at Home box here.
Interested in joining our choir? Contact our Director of Music for more information: nyleab@uulosalamos.org
You may leave your weekly prayer intentions for our “Candles of Community” here.

OFFERTORY:
Our Share the Plate partner for September is the UUA’s Disaster Relief Fund, a rolling fund that makes individual grants to congregations and other recognized UU nonprofit entities affected by disasters. From natural disasters like wildfires that scorch everything in their path and hurricanes that bring destruction through winds and water, to human caused disasters like the collapsing infrastructure that we’ve seen in Flint, our congregations, our people, and our communities sustain the impact. Your donation to the UUA Disaster Relief Fund allows the UUA to respond flexibly on your behalf to tragedies that overtake us.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering: https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS:
Susannah Sudborough, Pulpit Guest
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
The Choir: Mike Begnaud, Mary Billen, Nylea Butler-Moore, Skip Dunn, Jenni Gaffney, Alissa Grissom, Kathy Gursky, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Janice Muir, Kelly Shea
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 5050-662-2346.

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at:  revjohn@uulosalamos.org

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Raised in South Carolina and Alabama, Beverly Clinton, Vaughn Clinton, and Tyler Taylor lived most of their formative years surrounded by deep racism. They’ll reflect on what they learned and unlearned, how their outlooks have evolved, and what they believe is possible in America today. How far has the nation come in eroding white supremacy? How do we process the damage that racism has done to our personal psyches, while it rampages in our world? How do we factor in the daily injustices done to minorities who are not black, especially as New Mexicans? And what about “class” as a critical dividing factor? Are there some truly positive signs? This will be a candid exploration of these issues from 3 viewpoints.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS
“Deep River” trad. spiritual, arr. Larry Shackley. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream this arrangement obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.
“The Great Correction” by Eliza Huntington Gilkyson. (Maura Taylor, vocalist & Tyler Taylor, acoustic guitar). Permission to podcast/stream BMI song #10075931 obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
“There Is More Love Somewhere” African American hymn. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
“We’re Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table” traditional.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution” by Tracy L. Chapman. (Maura Taylor, vocalist & Tyler Taylor, acoustic guitar). Permission to podcast/stream ASCAP song #500404299 obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
Medley: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” words: Julia Ward Howe, music: USA campmeeting tune, 19th cent. Public Domain. “The Star-Spangled Banner,” words: Francis Scott Key, music: John Stafford Smith. Public Domain. (Curt Sydnor, piano and arrangement).  Used by permission.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Photos used for “Parting of the Waters” from Pixabay by:  Gerd Altman, LuAnn Hunt, John Potter, Luis Carlos Adrianzen, Jeff Jacobs, & Falco
Transition photos: “Signs of the Times” by Rick Bolton

OTHER CREDITS
Story: “The Parting of the Waters,” by Christopher Buice. Used with permission of the author. The song within the story (“Ain’t Gonna Let…”) is public domain.
From UUA Worship Web:  “Struggle and Joy” by Bance Bass  &  “We Shall Overcome” by Jonathan Johnstone

OFFERTORY
Our offering for August is dedicated to Los Alamos Family Council:   lafamilycouncil.org

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
Beverly Neal Clinton, Vaughn Clinton, & Tyler Taylor, Pulpit Guests
Terry Beery, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Maura Taylor, vocalist & Tyler Taylor, acoustic guitar
Terry Beery, Time for All Ages Presenter
Evan Rose, Pilgramage Reading
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:  https://www.uulosalamos.org

Connect with us on Facebook:   http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at:   revjohn@uulosalamos.org

James Carroll is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has a PhD in Statistical Machine Learning, and a minor in Ancient Near Eastern History, and is a student of comparative religion and mythology.

Human beings categorize and understand events in terms of stories and archetypes. From Zeus to Paul, we use these characters to understand and make sense of the world around us. During the time of the Greeks, and throughout the middle ages, the majority of people were aware of, and referenced the characters and stories of Greek Mythology. During the Middle Ages, those stories were mixed with characters from the Bible, or of King Arthur and his knights. The fact that we all knew and referenced the same set of stories, allowed us to share a common vocabulary of archetypes, which led to a common mode of communication and a common framework for understanding the world.

This is true in modern times as much as it was centuries ago. And the human propensity to understand the world through these archetypes exemplifies at least one reason why gender, sexual, and racial representation in the stories we tell is so important for people’s positive sense of self.

But today, our modern stories have fractured into different media and genera, patronized by different “fans” who no longer share a common vocabulary and set of archetypes. For some, this function is served by the stories of Jane Austen, for some the archetypes are superheroes in comics and movies, for some the fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien serves, and some see the archetypes in the science fiction of Star Trek. There is now great variety in the type of archetypes different groups of people know and reference.

This is a somewhat unique challenge for our generation. Nevertheless, these modern stories can serve as powerful tools for social justice, or as nostalgic longing for the privilege of the past.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Gathered Here in the Mystery” by Philip A. Porter. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission. 
• “Light of Ages and of Nations,” words: Samuel Longfellow, tune: AUSTRIA, music: Franz Joseph Haydn (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Winds Be Still,” music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Public Domain.
• “I Wish I Knew How,” words & music: Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas, arr: Mary Allen Walden. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission. 
• “O Star of Truth,” words: Minor Judson Savage, music: Finnish melody, arr. John Helgen.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Words & music Public Domain.  Permission to podcast/stream this arrangement obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.
• “Be Thou My Vision,” words: words: 8th century Irish, transl. by Mary E. Byrne, versified by Eleanor H. Hull, music: trad. Irish melody.  (Elisa Enriquez, vocalist). Public Domain.
• “As We Leave This Friendly Place,” words: Vincent B. Silliman, words: J.S. Bach, adapt. from Chorale 38.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Public Domain.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Transition Photos: Galen Gisler

OTHER NOTES
Reflection References:

• The Science Behind Storytelling: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903545336/the-science-behind-storytelling
• Whoopi Goldberg story: https://www.startrek.com/database_article/goldberg-whoopi
• Martin Luther King Jr. Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_UIuxba8
• UULA Adult RE Recordings for “Religious Scholarship and Literacy”, Comparative Religion and the Bible.
  • Web: https://sites.google.com/view/religiousliteracy/home
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgjofLeFi_klKi18FtG16Q
• https://bechdeltest.com/statistics/

OFFERTORY
Our offering for August is dedicated to Los Alamos Family Council: lafamilycouncil.org

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
James Carroll, Pulpit Guest
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Elisa Enriquez, vocalist
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:  https://www.uulosalamos.org, Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, office@uulosalamos.org, 505-662-2346.
Connect with us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/uulosalamos)
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

The word “normal” is a troublesome one, as its definition is built on a shaky, subjective foundation, but often refers to an imagined sense of stability.  What does normal mean now, when truth and facts are challenged, and there is little common understanding? This Sunday’s reflection considers the meaning of a very shifty word, and how attempts to normalize crises requires all of us to take a step back.

Renae Mitchell has a Ph.D in Comparative Literature with a Doctoral minor in Latin American Studies.  She is currently a writer at LANL and has recently been an instructor at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos teaching a number of classes from French to Literature and Advanced Composition to Ethnic Studies (when a regular non-pandemic-affected university year allows her to teach).  One of her favorite classes to teach is “Race, Class, & Ethnicity in the United States.”

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS
Tune: HYFRYDOL, music: Rowland Hugh Prichard. (Wade Wheelock, violin). Public Domain.
“Rising Green,” words and music: Carolyn McDade, arr: Jim Scott. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
“Meditation on Breathing” by Sarah Dan Jones. (Nylea Butler-Moore, keyboard). Used by permission of the composer.
“Voice Still and Small” by John Corrado. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission of the composer.
“Gabriel’s Oboe” by Ennio Morricone. (David Watkins, cello and Yelena Mealy, piano). Permission to stream ASCAP Song # 888271016 obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
“What Wondrous Love Is This,” tune: WONDROUS LOVE by William Walker, arr. Todd Beaney. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream this arrangement obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.
“Go Now in Peace,” words and music by Natalie Sleeth. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream song #25659 obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Transition videos: “Bird Bath” by Rick Bolton
Transition photos: from the Unitarian Church online photo library

OTHER NOTES
Abed, Riadh. “Tyranny and Mental Health.” British Medical Bulletin, 72. 2004. https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/72/1/1/272832. Used by permission of Riadh Abed.
Aurelius, Marcus. Trans. Farquharson, ASL. Meditations, Book 4, Part 23. Oxford UP. 1961. Public domain.
Magaw, Jim. “Go in Peace, Seeking Justice.” Unitarian Universalist Association, https://www.uua.org/worship/words/benediction/go-peace-seeking-justice. Used by permission of Jim Magaw.
Mitchell, Renae. “Stand together in the chalice light.”
Zizek, Slavoj. Pandemic: COVID-19 Shakes the World. OR Books, 2020. Selections used by permission of the publisher.

OFFERTORY
Our offering for August is dedicated to Los Alamos Family Council:   lafamilycouncil.org

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
Renea Mitchell, Pulpit Guest
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Wade Wheelock, violin
Yelena Mealy, piano
David Watkins, cello
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:  https://www.uulosalamos.org, Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, office@uulosalamos.org, 505-662-2346
Connect with us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/uulosalamos)
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Jenny McReady, Sue Watts, and Nylea Butler-Moore

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS
Allegro from “Fantasie,” Op.79 by Gabriel Fauré. (Heidi Morning, flute & Yelena Mealy, piano). Public Domain.
“Rise Up, O Flame,” words: anonymous, music: Christoph Praetorius. (Jess Cullinan & Nora Cullinan, vocalists.) Public Domain.
“Spirit of Life,” words & music: Carolyn McDade, harm: Grace Lewis-McLaren. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission.
“There Is More Love Somewhere,” African American hymn. (Elisa Enriquez, vocalist). Public Domain.
“Deux Arabesques” (1. Andantino con moto, 2. Allegretto scherzando) by Claude Debussy. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Public Domain.
“Aprés un rêve” (No. 1 from 3 Songs, Op. 7) by Gabriel Fauré. (Heidi Morning, flute & Yelena Mealy, piano). Public Domain.
“Go Now in Peace,” words and music by Natalie Sleeth. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream song #25659 obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Transition videos: “Bird Bath” by Rick Bolton
Transition photos: from the Unitarian Church online photo library

OTHER NOTES
Chalice Lighting: “The End is the Beginning” by Katie Gelfand
Time for All Ages: “The Spider and the Very Important Person” by Diana Davies – Read by Kelly Dolejsi – Acted by Jocelyne and Amelia Dolejsi
Reading: Words from Angela King, co-founder of Life After Hate
Benediction: Words by Amy Zucker Morgenstern
Quotes: Adrienne Maree Brown from “Emergent Strategy” – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his sermon “Loving Your Enemies” – Michelle Obama for “When They Go Low, We Go High” – and Steven Stosny for the term “binocular vision”

OFFERTORY
Our offering for August is dedicated to Los Alamos Family Council:   lafamilycouncil.org

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
Jenny McReady, Pulpit Guest
Sue Watts, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Heidi Morning, flute
Yelena Mealy, piano
Nora Cullinan, vocalist
Jess Cullinan, vocalist
Kathy Gursky, viola
Kelly, Jocelyne & Amelia Dolejsi, Time for All Ages Presenters
Elisa Enriquez, vocalist
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:   https://www.uulosalamos.org

Connect with us on Facebook:   http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at:   revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Jenny McReady (pulpit guest), Sue Watts (worship associate), and Nylea Butler-Moore (director of music)

Wallidah Imarisha writes, “Nature has taught me that a storm can be used to clear out branches that are dying, to let go of that which was keeping us from growing in new directions.” How can we use this time of disruption and chaos to help us live into new possibilities?

Jenny McCready is the intern minister at Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, Colorado, and will be entering her final year of seminary at Meadville Lombard Theological School this fall. She is a Colorado native and mother of five children, ages 7 through 20. Her previous incarnations include horse carriage driver, legal assistant, and ecovillager, and she brings her passions for social justice and environmentally sustainable living to our pulpit today.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS
“When the Summer Sun Is Shining,” music: from The Southern Harmony, 1855, tune: HOLY MANNA.  (Wade Wheelock, violin).  Public Domain.
“Love Will Guide Us,” words: Sally Rogers, music: trad., arr. Betty A. Wylder. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
“I Know This Rose Will Open,” words and music: Mary E. Grigolia. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission of the composer.
“Woyaya,” words and music: Loughty Amoa, Solomon Amarfio, Robert M. Bailey, Roy Bedeau, Francis T. Osei, Whendell K. Richardson, & Mac Tontoh; transcribed from Ysaye M. Barnwell; arr. Jeannie Gagné. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
Waltz No. 19 in A-minor, op. posthume by Frédéric Chopin. (Tate Plohr, piano). Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7, no. 1 by Frédéric Chopin. (JeeYeon Plohr, piano). Public Domain.
“Go Now in Peace,” words and music by Natalie Sleeth. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream song #25659 obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Transition photos: Stitched works by Kathy Gursky

OTHER NOTES
Chalice Lighting Words were written by UU minister Victoria E Safford
Time for All Ages: “Up the Creek” by Nicholas Oldland – read by Sue Watts
Readings from Walidah Imarisha, Fannie Lou Hamer, Khalil Gibran, & Julian of Norwich

OFFERTORY
Our offering for August is dedicated to Los Alamos Family Council:   lafamilycouncil.org

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
Jenny McReady, Pulpit Guest
Sue Watts, Worship Associate
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Wade Wheelock, violin
Tate Plohr & JeeYeon Plohr, pianist
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:   http://www.uulosalamos.org.
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at:  revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Mike Adams on Sunday, July 19, 2020.

In Robin DiAngelo’s book, “White Fragility,” DiAngelo writes, “I believe that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color. I define a white progressive as any white person who thinks he or she is not racist, or is less racist…
White progressives do indeed uphold and perpetrate racism, but our defensiveness and certitude make it virtually impossible to explain to us how we do so.”

As a person of color, I’m going to explore this idea, using examples from my interactions with people. This service is an invitation to become engaged in anti-racism work, and I hope you’ll join me for this exploration.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Romanza for Viola and Piano” by Ferdinand Praeger. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.  Score typeset by Cypressdome for IMSLP and released under the Creative Commons BY-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
• “A Fierce Unrest,” words: Don Marquis, music: Ananias Davisson’s Kentucky Harmony. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Find a Stillness,” words: Carl G. Seaburg, based on a Unitarian Transylvanian text, music: Transylvanian hymn tune, harm: Larry Phillips. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano).  Used by permission of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
• “Le Soir,” No. 1 from Deux Pièces by Louis Vierne. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Légende,” No. 2 from Deux Pièces by Louis Vierne. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• “Go Now in Peace,” words and music by Natalie Sleeth. (Nora Cullinan & Jess Cullinan, vocalists). Permission to podcast/stream song #25659 obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

OFFERTORY

Our offering for July is dedicated Self Help Inc.  In order to make a donation to Self Help Inc.:

1. Make a check payable to “Self Help Inc.”
2. On the memo line of the check, please indicate that the donation is for “Self Help Inc.”
3. Please mail your check to:

Self Help Inc.
2390 North Road
Los Alamos, NM 87544

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Mike Adams, Guest Speaker
• Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Kathy Gursky, violist
• Nora Cullinan and Jess Cullinan, vocalists
• Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Sue Watts has been a part of the LAUU church community for over ten years. In her checkered past, she spent the 1970s through the mid-1990s in a small North Georgia town and in Birmingham, Alabama. While there, she was a part of interracial groups trying to establish connections and community between races. These experiences included spending time and energy with a bi-racial group of church ladies who worked together to provide a mixed-race day camp for kids, serving on the board of a community center in one of the Black areas of Birmingham, working with the local Girl Scout Council, and joining with folks from St. Paul’s United Methodist Church to create The Uncommon Communion. Through listening and dialogue, she discovered a few things along the way.



SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Suymbike” from the ballet, Shurale by Farit Yarullin.  (Yelena Mealy, piano).  Public Domain.
• “Wake, Now, My Senses,” words: Thomas J.S. Mikelson, music: trad. Irish melody. (Wade Wheelock, violin). Public Domain.
• “The Lone, Wild Bird,” words: H.R. MacFayden, music: William Walker’s Southern Harmony. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano & Kyle Butler-Moore, glockenspiel). Public Domain.
• “This Little Light of Mine,” trad. African American spiritual. (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Public Domain.
• No. 1 from “Improvisations on Two Norwegian Folk Songs,” Op. 29 by Edvard Grieg. (Yelena Mealy, piano). Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
• “Après un rêve (After a Dream),” words: Romain Bussine, music: Gabriel Fauré.  (Heidi Morning, flute & Yelena Mealy, piano). Public Domain.
• “Go Now in Peace,” words and music by Natalie Sleeth. (Nora Cullinan & Jess Cullinan, vocalists). Permission to podcast/stream song #25659 obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770

ARTWORK
Meditation Photos: by Rebecca and Steve Howard

OTHER NOTES
Citations for Reflection:

• Cummings, e e. “i thank You God” Xaipe (NY: Oxford University Press, 1950)
• Di Angelo, Robin. White Fragility (Boston: Beacon Press, June, 2018)
• Giles, Nancy. “Opinion” CBS Sunday Morning (July 5, 2020)
• Kabat-Zinn, Jon. “Breath and Bodyscape Meditations” Guided Mindfulness Meditations. (NY: BetterListen LLC, 2020)
• Oliver, Mary. “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass” Evidence (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009)
• Peck, M. Scott. “Respect” Abounding Grace: An Anthology of Wisdom. (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000), p. 308
• Reynolds, Jason. Interview by Krista Tippett “Fortifying Imagination” The On Being Project (aired July 4, 2020)
• Shapiro, Rabbi RM. Cannot find source
• Tippett, Krista. “Fortifying Imagination” The On Being Project (aired July 4, 2020)
• “Unitarian Universalism’s Seven Principles.” UUA.org

OFFERTORY
Our offering for July is dedicated Self Help Inc.  In order to make a donation to Self Help Inc.:

1. Make a check payable to “Self Help Inc.”
2. On the memo line of the check, please indicate that the donation is for “Self Help Inc.”
3. Please mail your check to:

Self Help Inc.
2390 North Road
Los Alamos, NM 87544

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Sue Watts, Guest Speaker
• Anne Marsh, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Yelena Mealy, Piano
• Elizabeth Watts and Family — Time for All Ages
• Wade Wheelock, Violin
• Heidi Morning, flute
• Jess Cullinan and Nora Cullinan, vocalists
• Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org. 
Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos
Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Rev. Jean Siegfried Darling, Rebecca Howard, Tina DeYoe, and Nylea Butler-Moore

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC
Gathering Music:  #40 “The Morning Hangs a Signal” (Wade Wheelock, violin)
Song:  #1030 “Siyahamba” (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano) 
Hymn Verse:  #1008 “Meditation on Breathing” (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano)                      
Hymn Verse:  #1028 “The Fire of Commitment” (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano)
Anthem:  “The Democratic Rage Hornpipe” (Wade Wheelock, violin)
Offertory:  “Up Sligo” (Wade Wheelock, violin)
Closing:  #413 “Go Now in Peace” by Natalie Sleeth (Nora & Jess Cullinan, vocalist)

ARTWORK
Transition Photos:  by Nylea and Kyle Butler-Moore

OTHER NOTES
Call to Worship:  written by the Rev. Christian Schmidt
Chalice Lighting:  words of Mark L. Bellentini (from UUA covid files)
Time For All Ages:  “The Magic Bean Crisis” by Mx. Katharine Childs
Readings:  by Walter Brueggmann from “The Prophetic Imagination”  and  Frederick Douglass from “Singing the Living Tradition” #579
Benediction:  words of Elizabeth Lerner Maclay (from UUA covid files)
Cited in Body of Sermon:  Dave Meslin,  “Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy From the Ground Up”

OFFERTORY
Our offering for July is dedicated to Self Help Inc.  In order to make a donation to Self Help Inc.:
    1. Make a check payable to “Self Help Inc.”
    2. On the memo line of the check, please indicate that the donation is for “Self Help Inc.”
    3. Please mail your check to:
                                                Self Help Inc.
                                                2390 North Road
                                                Los Alamos, NM 87544

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
         The Rev. Jean Siegfried Darling, Guest Minister
         Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
         Tina DeYoe, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
         Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
         Wade Wheelock, violin
         Jess Cullinan and Nora Cullinan, vocalists
         Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948.  All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770
Other music and written material used with permission.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at:  http://www.uulosalamos.org

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

Have questions? Need to talk to a minister? Contact our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, at: revjohn@uulosalamos.org

Presented by Rev. Suzanne Redfern-Campbell, Guest Minister, Anne Marsh, Worship Associate, & Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music.

This week, the Rev. Xolani Kacela, minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces joins us as guest preacher. Also presented by Rebecca Howard and Nylea Butler-Moore.

This sermon explores two important themes in the human condition: gratitude and grief. Right now, many of us are overwhelmed with grief, and perhaps, underwhelmed with gratitude. It’s understandable that we feel loss in the midst of the pandemic. How do we shore up our sense of gratitude? Let’s explore a few ideas.

Rev. Xolani Kacela leads the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The congregation welcomes all people and has the motto: “May we convey love in all we do.”

He serves as a chaplain in the New Mexico Air National Guard. Prior to that, he served with the District of Columbia National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. He has deployed four times, to include service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Most recently, Rev. Kacela authored It’s Your World: Think freely and express yourself. His book will provoke you to view the world broadly and develop your own insights. It is available for free on Smashwords.com and on Amazon for $2.99. His next book, Get A Hold of Yourself, is due out in September. He has written two children’s books, which will be published later this year.

You can find XK’s other writings on his website, MasteringYourOwnFaith.com.

SERVICE NOTES

MUSIC
Gathering –   “Up Jumped Spring” — Freddie Hubbard (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Permission to podcast/stream this music obtained from CCS, Worshipcast License #10770. All rights reserved.
Hymn –   #128 “For All that Is Our Life” — words: Bruce Findlow, music: Patrick L. Rickey
Sung Response –   “Cados, Cados” — Crypto-Jewish motet, anonymous (1450-60?), arr. Ofer Ben-Amots – Used by permission.  (Christina Martos, soprano & Debra Ayers, piano)
Anthem –   “La Rosa Enflorece” —  Judeo-Spanish Romancero, arr. Ofer Ben-Amots – Used by permission. (Christina Martos, soprano & Debra Ayers, piano)
Offertory –   “Mar Caribe” —  words: Diany Rivera Martos, music: Ron Strauss – Used by permission. (Christina Martos and Carlos Archuleta, vocalists & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano)
Closing Song –   #413 “Go Now in Peace” —  Natalie Sleeth – Permission to podcast/stream this music obtained from ONE LICENSE, License #A-730948. All rights reserved.

ARTWORK
Transitions – Melissa Bartlett and Susan Gisler

OTHER NOTES
Readings – Rev. Xolani Kacela’s readings are from the book Metaphors Be With You by Dr. Marte Grothe
Time for All Ages – “Pay Attention” written by Anne Marsh
Our offering recipients for May are the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund (http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html) and the Pueblo Relief Fund (https://pueblorelieffund.org/pueblo-relief-fund). Please visit their websites for more information and to make your direct donation.

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
The Rev Xolani Kacela, Ph.D., Guest Minister
Rebecca Howard, Worship Associate
Steve Howard, UU Union of Silly Sign Holders
Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
Christina Martos & Carlos Archuleta, vocalists
Debra Ayers, piano
Rick Bolton & Mike Begnaud, AV techs

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.
Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770
Other music and written material used with permission.

Presented by Wade Wheelock, Anne Marsh, Tina DeYoe, and Nylea Butler-Moore

MUSIC
1. Gathering: “For the Beauty of the Earth”–Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, Conrad Kocher, with adapted excerpts from arr. by Anne Krentz Organ
3. Hymn verse: “Gathered Here”–Philip A. Porter
7. Hymn verse: “Voice Still and Small”–John Corrado
9. Anthem: “Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World”–E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen; Bob Thiele & George David Weiss; based on arr. by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
(Tina DeYoe, vocalist and ukulele & Eric Schaller, cajon)
13. Offertory: “‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple”–Joseph Bracket, American Shaker Tune
15. Closing Song: “Go Now in Peace”–Natalie Sleeth

ARTWORK
Garden Photos: KokHeong McNaughton
Bird Video: Rev. John Cullinan
Paintings: Janice Muir

READINGS
Call to Worship: the Buddhist Metta Sutta
Time for All Ages: “Cinderella’s Schedule,” by Anne Marsh
Benediction: from the Analects of Confucius

Our offering recipient for April is the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB). Please visit https://www.losalamosjjab.com/ for more information and to make your direct donation.

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS
Wade Wheelock – guest minister
Anne Marsh – worship associate
Tina DeYoe – director of lifespan religious education and guest musician
Eric Schaller – guest musician
Nylea Butler-Moore – director of music
Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud – AV techs

All music licensed through One License, Christian Copyright Solutions, or used with permission of the author. All other materials used with permission.