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Ministerial Musings: March Pastoral Letter from Rev. Stefanie

This month’s Soul Matters theme is “vulnerability”. The word itself, equated with fragility/powerlessness, can easily conjure up vivid...

Why does UUSM have a Minister’s Discretionary Fund?

The Minister’s Discretionary Fund is used to provide confidential assistance to those facing emergency financial need. The Pastoral Care...

In Support of Presence to the Present

OCTOBER PASTORAL MESSAGE FROM REV. STEFANIE ETZBACH-DALE The book of Jeremiah describes a scene in which one of the four biblical...

Minister’s Musings: A Pastoral Letter from Rev. Stefanie Etzbach-Dale

By this time, you may already have noticed some of the annual signs of seasonal shift: cooler nights, tinted leaves, and children heading...

"Even Those Changes We Desire..."

Everything is in constant motion, as much as we may wish sometimes that it weren’t. Even the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes insisted,...