Reverend Rick Hoyt-McDaniels
4/20/2025
For Unitarians, who hold a conception of a strictly human Jesus, a physical resurrection is not possible. No human can die and later live again as that same person. But what if we think of Easter not as something that happens to individuals but as a lesson about life itself? Easter could celebrate an eternally existing spirit of life passed through communities, taking shape in collections of individuals for a time, and then taking new shapes in later times.
Rick Hoyt-McDaniels
4/13/2025
The story of Passover endures because it speaks to one of the fundamental aims of religion: liberation. We seek to be released from all that holds back individuals and groups from the full expression of our potential. The spiritual journey is the journey from oppression by others and by our own doubts and fears to the freedom of lives we make for ourselves.
Lay-Led
4/4/2025
Our worship service this Sunday is drawn from the program “Soul Matters”—in particular, the concept of “Repair.” This sermon looks at repairing our own relationship with the art of prayer, and different approaches to the practice that can help people in their daily lives. We have permission via Soul Matters and Rev. Dana Worsnop of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura, to share Rev. Dana’s sermon.