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First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Sunday worship service. Home of liberal spirituality for over 150 years, the Society welcomes people of all racial and religious backgrounds. Our Congregation includes gay, straight, transgendered, and questioning people. More information is available at www.uusf.org.
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“The Art of Waiting”
Sunday, December 7, 2025
In Christian liturgy this is the season of waiting and preparation—of Advent. It is perfectly scheduled in the depths of winter, when so much feels like it is waiting, preparing, quietly under snow until the light draws it out again. Times of preparation are important and hard sometimes and are the places where transitions and change are made possible. What does Advent mean for you and us right now? How do you make space to meet it?
Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Carmen Barsody, Worship Associate; Galen Workman, Moderator, Board of Trustees; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir led by Mark Sumner, Director; Wm. García Ganz, pianist
Eric ShackelfordJonathan Silk, Communications Director; Kelvin Jones, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Amy Kelly, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher
LIVESTREAM
https://youtube.com/live/H5DNVummzuE
OOS:
https://t.ly/20251207OSWeb
PLAYLIST:
https://t.ly/20251207Playlist
30 Nov 2025
Bread Communion, or Ate, and left no crumbs
“Bread Communion, or Ate, and left no crumbs”
Sunday, November 30, 2025
In this moment of vanishing resources, let us practice collective restoration through the ancient ritual of gathering as a community and breaking bread. Who is welcome at our table and in our pews?
Mark Caswell, Ministerial Intern; Mari Magaloni Ramos, Worship Associate; Haruka Ota, cellist; Yuki Ota, cellist; Akane Ota, songleader; Wm. Garcia Ganz, pianist
Eric Shackelford, Camera Operator; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Kelvin Jones, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Amy Kelly, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher
LIVESTREAM
https://youtube.com/live/3XkeNJPlNSE
OOS:
https://t.ly/20251130OSWeb
PLAYLIST:
https://t.ly/20251130Playlist
23 Nov 2025
The Spiritual Practice of Birding
“The Spiritual Practice of Birding”
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Like so many things we love, we are drawn to them because of the worlds they open up to us—outside us and within. In a month when we discuss gratitude, let’s journey to how one person’s relationship to the hobby, the avocation of birding, is a source of joy and so much more too.
Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Dennis Adams, Worship Associate; Linda Enger, Vice-Moderator, Board of Trustees; Reiko Oda Lane, organist; UUSF Choir led by Mark Sumner, Director; Wm. García Ganz, pianist
Eli Boshears, Camera Operator; Jonathan Silk, OOS; Kelvin Jones, Jose Matias Pineda, and Francisco Castellanos, Sextons; Athena Papadakos, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher
LIVESTREAM
https://youtube.com/live/QRl7OnY80CE
OOS:
https://t.ly/20251123OSWeb
PLAYLIST:
https://t.ly/20251123Playlist
Inside a recent episode
Trust in the Wild
Published 30 Mar 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This is a world where one receives generously and then feels intuitively, gratitude, is moved immediately to the joy of sharing and reciprocity, not as some ritual of manners, but as a recognition of how your life is contingent on the life of another in a huge web of belonging and service. Kimmerer points out how this framing of our relationship to life's resources and each other is natural, how it shows up everywhere. All around us are signs she writes of us knowing of reciprocity and of the natural laws of sharing and gratitude and belonging. Like all those little free libraries in our neighborhoods, like all the websites and apps where we take what's extra that we have and rather than sell it, we give it away to whoever needs it, to spare the earth, an additional extraction, to bless others with our abundance, to stop treating everything as disposable because somehow that doesn't sit right with us, hurts our souls. […]
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