Bring your ears and your voice to our spring music service! Join us and take part in an exciting interactive program exploring the utility of music, featuring performances by People’s Church members as well as special guests.

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Music Makes Us Whole - People's Singers and Musicians - April 15, 2018

The troubles of the world—the destruction of the environment, gun violence, white supremacy—crack our hearts open. This service will explore how the heartbreak calls us into community and into action.

The Lessons of the Loons - Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum - April 8, 2018

On this Easter Sunday, we will celebrate new life and resurrection through readings and song.

New Birth and Rebirth - Laura MacLellan - April 1, 2018

Our annual Poetry Service will explore the bond of human experience through spoken and written word.

How Poetry Connects Us - People's People - March 25, 2018

This Sunday is the beginning of our stewardship season. In the annual ‘Sermon on the Amount,’ Rev. Rachel and People’s people will reflect on the great things happening at People’s Church–and invite us all to continue to be the generous, loving, justice-seeking community that we are.

Keep On Moving Forward - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - March 18, 2018

‘Love is the way messengers/from the mystery tell us things’ writes the 13th century Muslim mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī , who is often known simply as Rumi. Nearly every religious tradition has a mystical tradition, made up of people who seek heightened states where they feel the presence of The Holy. In this service, we will explore Persian Muslim mystic poets Hafez, Rumi, and Rabi’a, and the mystic approach to religious knowing more generally.

Messengers from the Mystery - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - March 11, 2018

Islam is the religion we are focusing on in March at People’s Church. The word ‘Islam’ literally means ‘submission’ or ‘surrender.’ How do Muslims understand these ideas at the heart of their faith? What might we Unitarian Universalists learn from engaging with these ideas?

Submission and Surrender as Spiritual Practices - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - March 4, 2018

If you are working to stay present in the world—interacting with others with care, compassion, and kindness; advocating and acting on issues of justice locally and in our world—feelings of heartbreak and overwhelm often come. How do we acknowledge these feelings, respect our needs, yet stay engaged in the works of love and justice? In this service, organized by Rev. Rachel and the Social Justice Coordinating Committee, a few People’s people will share about the spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual work they do to stay woke, stay present, and stay engaged.

Stay Woke - Rev. Rachel and the Social Justice Coordinating Committee - February 25, 2018

The #MeToo movement is giving contemporary society an opportunity to have a long-overdue conversation about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and male privilege. How can men join this conversation as allies to “affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations”?

Privilege & Possibility - J. Barrett Lee - February 18, 2018

The Zhuangzi (sometimes written in English as Chuang-tzu) is one of the core texts of Taoism, based on the teachings of a sage that lived in the 3rd century BCE. The text contains stories and anecdotes that one scholar describes as ‘a ramble into the unexpected, the unpredictable, and the unknown—a piñata of paradox and parody and parable and wit, just waiting to be cracked open by childlike joy.’ This Sunday, Rev. Rachel will share some of these stories and lift up what they might have to teach us.

The Pleasures of a Fish and Other Stories - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - February 11, 2018

This month, we will be exploring Taoism in worship. Wu wei, which is translated as “non-action,” “spontaneity” or “acting from the core of one’s being” is one of the highest virtues in Taoism. Water metaphors are often used to describe it. “There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water,” yet for attacking things that are hard and strong there is nothing that surpasses it.” writes Lao-Tse, the founder of philosophical Taoism. Rev. Rachel will explore how we might incorporate the wisdom of water, spontaneity, and flow into our lives.

Flow - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - February 4, 2018

Bring you questions and Rev. Rachel will do her best to answer them on-the-spot during the time she usually preaches a prepared sermon. Even if your question is not addressed during the service, know that it will be read and thought about and possibly inform future worship services and programs at the church.

Living the Questions - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - January 28, 2018

When Rachel invited Fred to deliver a sermon during the month of January and mentioned that Judaism is the theme for the month, he was reminded of the sermon he delivered some 20 years ago to the congregation of People’s Church based on the story of Isaac’s trip to the sacred mountain. He wonders if any one present remembers the point of that sermon? He will raise a very different questions about the meaning of the story now.

Is There Laughter on the Other Side of the Mountain? - Rev. Fred Campbell - January 21, 2018

The Edict of Torda, an unprecedented act of religious tolerance was issued 450 years ago this month by King John Sigismund of Hungary, the only Unitarian King in history. This Sunday, we will celebrate this edict, which granted religious freedom to Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists and Unitarians. We will also be visited by King John himself, as portrayed by Matthew Morris McCormick.

Edict of Torda at 450 - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - January 14, 2018

In January, we are exploring Judaism in worship and adult religious education. In the Jewish tradition, the word for repentance, teshuvah, literally means “turning.” At this turning of the year, we will explore the practices of repentance, the amends we might need to make, and how we might move forward into a brighter year.

...We Begin Again in Love - Rev. Rachel Lonberg - January 7, 2018

People's Church is a welcoming religious community drawing on wisdom and inspiration from many sources to discover and live out our highest values. It is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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