I was on vacation for part of August, travelling in Ecuador and Peru. These were really two separate trips, with different tour groups and different purposes, but I found they shared a common theme: we can do hard things.
In Ecuador, we spent five days in … read more.
In September 2020, I added a component called “land acknowledgment” to our Sunday worship. I wrote about this in my newsletter column a few months afterward, noting:
For many of us, the commitment to acknowledging land was strengthened after attending the 2020 UUA General Assembly, which … read more.
The following is an excerpt from Rev. Sharon Wylie’s sermon “The Sermon After General Assembly” offered on June 30, 2024. You can watch the full sermon on Chalice’s YouTube channel.
I believe that it is part of being a Unitarian Universalist to eventually face the question: … read more.
As was emailed to the congregation on May 21:
The relationship between minister and congregants is a special one. It is my great privilege to be part of your lives. I am available to meet with you to provide pastoral counseling and care in times of … read more.
I am enjoying taking an online UU history class offered by the Faith Forward program at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas. Eleven Chalice congregants have registered for the class, and we’ve had 4-6 congregants attending the class live (a recording of the class is … read more.
I have just returned from a two-week trip to South Korea with my husband. We had a wonderful time learning about the country’s history and culture, and touring to see culturally significant places.
We don’t speak Korean; fortunately most of the transportation signage is in English … read more.
At our February Elders Lunch, it came up that there has been a rise in mental health struggles and feelings of loneliness coming out of the pandemic (those things existed before 2020, of course, and then the pandemic made everything worse). And of courses, in … read more.
Each October, at our annual Beloved Dead service, I speak the names of our members who have died in the previous year. I keep a log of these names, so can tell you definitively that in the 12 years I have been at Chalice, 50 … read more.
Our focus for January is body gratitude. #bodygratitude #gratitudepractice #chaliceuuescondido
What does it mean for us to have a congregational focus for the month? It doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll have a worship service on the topic, though that might happen sometimes. The idea for a “focus” … read more.
The following is Rev. Sharon Wylie’s homily for the “Chalice Soup and Founders Say” service on November 19, 2023. You can watch the full service on Chalice’s YouTube channel.
Earlier this year, in the spring, the surgeon general declared that there’s an epidemic of loneliness, a … read more.
