Beyond Sundays: Exploring UU Values in Everyday Life
Last Tuesday of each month — 7:00 PM on Zoom through June, 2026
(Audio replays and handouts available below)
A Spiritual Gathering Beyond the Sanctuary
Our Beyond Sundays sessions offer an opportunity to deepen your spiritual practice, connect with others in meaningful conversation, and explore the living values of Unitarian Universalism.
Each month, we gather for a reflective, interactive experience that includes music, readings, a message, journaling, and closing blessings — all centered around one of our Unitarian Universalist Shared Values.
Whether you join live or listen later, these gatherings invite you to reflect, renew, and put your faith into action in daily life.
What to Expect
Each session includes:
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Music and Centering – to open our hearts and set our intention
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Readings and Reflections – grounded in UU values and real-life wisdom
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Message – using the What – So What – Now What framework to bring values into focus
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Journaling Prompts, Affirmations, Questions – for personal reflection and growth
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Closing Blessing and “Value in Action” Plan – to inspire mindful practice beyond the session
Recordings are available here after each session, along with a PDF that includes journaling prompts, affirmations, and suggested “Value in Action” practices for the month ahead. We’ll hold Beyond Sundays sessions from September through June, taking a break in July and August.
Recent Sessions
March 24 – Equity
Every person is inherently worthy and has the right to flourish. Together, we’ll reflect on how we can embody equity in our everyday choices and actions.
February 24 – Generosity
Generosity isn’t only about giving money—it’s a spiritual posture of openness and trust. Join us as we explore generosity as love in action and discover how moving from scarcity to abundance can transform both the giver and the receiver.
January 27 – Transformation
Transformation calls us to adapt to change with courage and hope. We’ll explore where change is happening in our lives and how it can help us grow.
December 23 – Justice
Justice is Love in action. We’ll reflect on how to nurture Beloved Community and how each of us can take small steps toward fairness and compassion. Justice is defined by fairness and moral rightness—ensuring people get what they deserve, whether that is fair treatment, deserved reward, or appropriate accountability, and is guided by law, equity, and ethical principles that seek to balance rights and responsibilities.
November 25 – Pluralism
Pluralism is a celebration of diversity-cultural, theological, and experiential; an affirmation that all people are sacred, each carrying wisdom the rest of us need; an invitation to open dialogue, free of coercion or dogma; and a covenant to learn from one another, grounded in respect, curiosity, and love Pluralism recognizes that we are all sacred beings, diverse in culture, experience, and theology. We’ll discuss how to celebrate that diversity as a gift and a source of strength. This Beyond Sundays session focused on the affirmation that we are many – many stories, many histories, many understandings of the sacred – and yet we choose to journey together. We choose connection over uniformity, curiosity over certainty, relationship over rigidity.
October 28 – Interdependence
We honor the interdependent web of all existence and acknowledge our place in it.
This Beyond Sundays session focused on how our lives are woven together in ways both visible and unseen. Through readings, reflection, and journaling, we explored how to deepen our awareness of connection and commit to acts that nurture the web of life.
September 23 – Love
Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. we are accountable to one another for doing the work of living our shared values through the spiritual discipline of Love.
This Beyond Sundays session focused on Love as the foundation of all our Unitarian Universalist (UU) Values. Love calls us to compassion, courage, and connection in our everyday lives.
Upcoming Sessions
Join us as we continue our exploration of the UU Shared Values and how they come alive in daily living. Want to receive the Zoom invite? Send an email to Rev. Dianne (or ask me to add you after my 2nd Sunday service).