Rev Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get "unstuck" and live from deep gladness. Contact her at: .
Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get “unstuck” and live from deep gladness. In between, she served churches in Massachusetts – most recently as the minister of the First Parish in Scituate. She has also served as the UU Chaplain at Wellesley College from which she was graduated with a degree in Mathematics. She and her husband live in Bath and are the parents of twin sons, one a sophomore at UMaine Orono, the other a Lance Corporal in the US Marines.
Before the busyness of September begins, all ages are invited to gather for an outdoor service and picnic. We’ll bless backpacks as children and youth return to school as well as adults’ backpacks, computer bags, tote bags, diaper bags, even attache cases (if anyone still carries one). Please bring your backpack or bag with you. … Continue reading Weaving Blessings
As MUUF begins this month a year-long sermon series on people whose lives, writings, and actions inspire our faith, let’s consider how radical it is to be part of a tradition without one primary source or scripture.
In her book “Pleasure Activism” adrienne maree brown wrote, “I believe that we are in an imagination battle, and almost everything about how we orient toward our bodies is shaped by fearful imaginations.” As our nation begins its 251st year, what would it look like for brave imaginations to shape our future?
This Sunday MUUF will welcome four new members: Andy Abello, Amy Shields, Vanessa Shields-Hass, and Autumn Vencile. Pamela Barz will reflect on what it means to live out our Unitarian Universalist faith as modeled in “Little Women” and “Little Men” by the 19th century Unitarian author and activist Louisa May Alcott.
Despite all the harshness and worries of these days, there is much blooming, including the children and youth of MUUF’s religious education program and the other ministries and connections of the Fellowship. Celebrate all of it as the participants of the Chalice Children, YoUUth Explorers, and OWL (Our Whole Lives) programs share stories, poems, prayers, … Continue reading For All That Blooms
Reflections on pilgrimage from Pam’s time walking the Way of St. Francis. Editors Note: St. Francis, best known as St. Francis of Assisi, was a man who lived over 800 years ago and was the son of a wealthy merchant. From a life of luxury, he renounced worldly possessions and began his radical call to … Continue reading Buon Cammino
Let’s celebrate our UU good news that the spirit that lived in Jesus lives as well in all of us. If you would like to bring a pot with a flowering Spring plant to decorate our space, please place them in front of the pulpit before the service begins.
As we continue to cultivate feelings of awe, we’ll consider the ways that curiosity far from being dangerous allows us to deepen our senses of wonder, connection, and delight.
Our worship series “Purveyors of Awe” continues with an exploration of delight – that feeling that gives us goosebumps, or thrills us, or lifts our hearts. Delight, like all aspects of awe, can change our perspective, connect us to one another, and encourage us in acts of resistance. How do we feel delight and how … Continue reading Spaces of Delight
In recent years Unitarian Universalists have been reclaiming the Christian liturgical season of Lent as a time to ground ourselves more deeply in spiritual practices. In these anxious and difficult times, this grounding is especially important. This year we’ll focus on being “Purveyors of Awe”: looking around us and within us for beauty, wonder, connection, … Continue reading The Wide Eye of Wonder
