Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Briarcliff, Croton, and Ossining

No Sunday Service

It’s that time of year again when joy and good cheer abound! So come one, come all, and join us at the Fellowship on Saturday, December 24th for our annual, lay led Christmas Eve service at 4:30 p.m. Hear the Spirits sing and listen to memories of Christmases past.

At this time of year, we celebrate many festivals: Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa and others. We say Happy Holidays to be inclusive, which actually means: Happy Holy Days. All the “holy days” we celebrate are embedded in stories– stories, not to be believed in literally, but to be interpreted as conveying […]

Merry Christmas, everyone! Someone said to me this week: “Jim, you’re not going to talk again in your sermon on Sunday about how when you were a child your father got drunk every Christmas Eve and ruined everything, are you? You’re not going to do that again, are you?” Well, […]

A particular congregation had great affection for their parish priest, Father John. Even the children adored him. There was only one thing wrong: his sermons were terrible! They were long and rambling. He seemed to forget what the point was. No one knew what he was talking about. A committee from the congregation went to […]

I am looking forward to being with you on Sunday and being festive! The sermon title is The Jesus I Know. In the Christmas tradition we are in the middle of Advent–as we approach the celebration of Jesus’ birth. However, I believe it is the life of Jesus that matters the most. […]

End Times. Are we living in them? Is the Apocalypse now? With so much devastation around us, natural and otherwise, the “end of the world” prophets abound. Could they be right? If so, why would those on the “religious right” be so intent on forcing religious creationism or the theory […]

Fellow UU’ers,
The end of the year is quickly approaching. With Christmas falling on a Sunday we have decided not to have a service on Sunday December 25th, so make sure to mark your calendar. We will of course have our Christmas Eve Service on the 24th at 4:30pm so make sure to come by for […]

One of my old favorite writers, Sam Keen, once said: The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve your need to possess. It will transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces […]