Upcoming Worship Services

March 8  Love at the Center
Dana Moore, guest speaker

Unitarian Universalists boldly claim Love at the center of our faith. But when conflict arises and challenges test us, how do we move beyond aspiration to embody love as a transformative spiritual practice? This service explores what it means to practice love as the courageous, sustaining work of Beloved Community near and afar.

Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director

Dana N. Moore is a lifelong practitioner of “Love at the Center,” an M.Div. graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry, and serves as Congregational Coordinator at Beacon UU Congregation in Summit, NJ. When not nurturing her two beautiful children, Dana can be found preaching and singing about love, nibbling cheese, and hugging trees.
Remember to set your clocks forward 1 hour to begin Daylight Savings Time.

March 15  The 2026 Dr. Myra Zinke Lecture: But Girls Can’t Be Lawyers!
Kendra Reinshagen, guest speaker

This was my response in 1968 when a friend in high school told me she wanted to attend law school. Nine years later I applied to DePaul University College of Law, was accepted, and started attending law school. I will talk about how—and why—I went from “Girls can’t do that” to…doing…“that.”

Music: Elaine Held, Sister Singers

This service is funded by a bequest from Dr. Myra Zinke who hoped to promote gender equality with her generosity.
Kendra Reinshagen is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to the needs of women and families, focusing on domestic violence, anti-trafficking, and elder and poverty law. The last ten years of her working career she was Executive Director of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago. Kendra and her husband Steve moved to New Jersey from the Chicago area a few years ago to be near their daughter. Steve teaches Tai Chi.
A Bake Sale will follow the service in the Community Room.

March 22  Attention Surplus Disorder
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano

For all of our desire to do, read, watch, worry, stress, and act—all at the same time—the truth is that multi-tasking is merely continuous partial attention. In a world characterized not by our inability to pay attention but by our attention being drawn in too many ways at once, it seems that Attention Surplus Disorder should be a thing if it isn’t already. The answer to this quandary is, of course, honing the art of paying attention—really paying attention. And where better to begin than in a community sustained by its common values?

Music: Michael Rosin; UU Singers

An Interim Congregational Meeting will follow the service in the Community Room.

March 29  …But I Would Not Stop There
Chris Budin, guest speaker

Chris will be reflecting on his recent experience traveling to Minneapolis, MN, the power of an interfaith embodied collective justice movement, and how each of us can inspire institutional change through compassion and vulnerability.

Music: Michael Rosin

Chris Budin is a Unitarian Universalist seminarian studying towards a Master of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School, one of two UU seminaries in the US. This year, he is co-teaching the Coming of Age curriculum with a fabulous group of 9th & 10th graders at his home congregation, UU Montclair. He is gratefully serving as a Trustee with UU FaithAction NJ. Chris is called to coalition building and other work with local and national LGBTQ+ justice initiatives. Chris lives in Sussex County with his fur baby Max, who loves long car rides with the windows down and the reality TV show, Dance Moms.