Nov. 15, 2025 – Freedom From Want by Rev. Twinkle Manning

2026 Feb 5 | Worship Service, Worship Services

This service reviews our capacity to free each other from all kinds of want – and our innate need to do just so.

Twinkle is the contract minister for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine. She is an author, poet, retreat leader and liturgist, as well as a semi-retired television producer. She served for many years on the core leadership team for UU Women and Religion and is the creator of the UU Talks platform. Her theology is centered in “Living Life as a Prayer.”

October 18, NAUA Worship Service, “Welcoming the Stranger”

2025 Nov 3 | News, Worship Service, Worship Services

Rev. Alex Holt, a longtime Unitarian minister, led the October 18th NAUA Service. His theme was “Welcoming the Stranger.”

It is said we are a hopelessly divided country and perhaps we should secede to make us more unified. Really? Can we as liberal religious communities continue to welcome the stranger rather than push them away? How can that be done with faith and openness?

JD Stillwater: One Song – the Science of Oneness

2025 Sep 24 | News, Worship Service, Worship Services

For millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything, from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time. In short, science agrees: “All is one.”

Climate Consciousness – Aug. 2025 Monthly Service

2025 Aug 19 | Worship Service, Worship Services

August’s worship service will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative.

Gail Sandlin will lead the August NAUA Service. She will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. We, in the NAUA, rely on pillars of science, justice, and faith to guide us in our lives. Gail will explore how concern for a healthy environment is both fundamental for our future and inherent in our religion, building her talk around the theme of “Climate Consciousness.”

Climate Consciousness is a way of being, perceiving and responding that is shaped by spiritual insight and ethical commitment.  This service will provide a brief overview of the key elements and spiritual practices of Climate Consciousness revealed by spiritual teachers such as Richard Rohr, Matthew Fox, Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dali Lama, Aldo Leopold and Rumi.

July 19, 2025 Service -Yin and Yang

2025 Jul 21 | News, Worship Service, Worship Services

“As the Yin and Yang symbol illustrates, there is a piece of each in the other, teaching us the importance of empathy and understanding.” The July Service will be conducted by NAUA’s worship team. The theme will be “Yin and Yang: How is it possible to have opposites come together, and if they are together, are they that much different?”

June 21, 2025 – Two Views on the Nature of Nature by Dr. Gary Nelson

2025 Jun 21 | News, Worship Service, Worship Services

The June Sunday Service brings together the scientific view of nature, along with the mystical and spiritual view, with a sermon by Dr. Gary Nelson. Dr. Nelson’s training in electrical engineering and applied mathematics encouraged views of the cosmos as mindless, meaningless matter in motion. However, his great-grandmother was Native American, and he grew up with a grandmother who was a trance medium who introduced him to a spirit guide that was a helper.

His path to a PhD was unconventional. He built and operated two “beatnik “ coffee houses, did a stint in the USAF as a computer repairman and then attended college. He has been a student of spirituality since childhood. This presentation incorporates his interests in Vipassana Buddhism and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.