Sunday, April 7, at 10:00 am: “Your Past May Be Stained,” Steve Prince, Muscarelle Museum Director of Engagement & Distinguished Artist-in-Residence
In this service, Steve Prince will talk about the intersections of spirituality, community, and race. Steve will share various moments in history that we continue to grapple with and discuss some communal initiatives that he is engaging communities internationally through the cathartic power of the arts and faith.
Steve Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary University.
Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions. He is also an accomplished lecturer and workshop conductor in both sacred and secular settings through a variety of media. In 2019 he worked with over 500 people to create a collective art piece focusing on the history of chattel slavery stemming from the first documented Africans arriving on the shores of Point Comfort in 1619.
He currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Sunday, April 14, at 10:00 am: “Nature Theology for UUs,” Rev. Michelle Collins, Interim Minister
Many Unitarian Universalists talk about how they find nature to be sacred, or how they find the sacred in nature. Embracing the interconnected web of existence of which we are a part is one of the core principles of UUism. Today we’ll delve into some expressions of theology based on these things.
Sunday, April 21, at 10:00 am: “Thinking Like a Mountain (or a Coral Reef),” Rev. Michelle Collins, Interim Minister
Inspired by Joanna Macy’s work, we turn our attention to hearing and feeling what our earth is telling us as we celebrate this year’s Earth Day. She is speaking, loudly, but we do have to pay attention to hear what she is saying.
Sunday, April 28, at 10:00 am: “Our Great Big Tent,” Rev. Michelle Collins, Interim Minister
Unitarian Universalists congregations are diverse places where we welcome lots of different beliefs and folks from lots of different walks of life and with lots of different identities. We seek to be a great big tent, a place of welcoming and acceptance. This morning we’ll explore some of the ways that we do this as well as some of the challenges that we face.