Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday morning worship begins at 10:30 a.m. at UUFA.
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The Fellowship offers many opportunities and invitations to explore and practice the theme. We will be exploring the theme through out the month in worship and Religious Exploration.
May 3: “What If We Did Not Condemn?” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
In the midst of a heated argument, what happens when we invite curiosity? When someone has done wrong, what happens if we remain open to the possibility they might do right in the future? Let us explore how embracing the small opening of curiosity amid judgment is central to Universalist theology.
May 10: “Three Questions for Holy Beings” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker and Meredyth Howard
What questions would you ask of a holy being? What if you were also a holy being? In this service, we honor the bridging of children into youth and youth into young adulthood.
May 17: “Exploring ‘God’” with Rev. Nic Filzen
What is most ultimate and intimate in the universe? What about your life?
May 24: “Awakening Curiosity: Human Diversity is a Kaleidoscope” with Mx. Anunnaki Marquez
Human diversity is a Kaleidoscope. Human Diversity is not binary. It is complex and beautiful. Human Diversity can not be controlled by laws or people in power and control. Human Diversity exists even if our eyes are closed. Let’s open our eyes together.”
Anunnaki is an intersex survivor and activist assigned the wrong sex at birth who emancipated his true gender identity in 2014 at the age of 47. Anunnaki describes himself as an Omnist, Interfaith, Intersex, Androgynous, Gay, Nonconforming Trans Man. Anunnaki educates and supports audiences across the country, serving intersex people, trans and non-binary people, and parents around the globe. Some of his proudest moments are educating medical students at Harvard Medical School after a screening of “Stories of Intersex and Faith” (2019) and speaking at PFLAG National Conferences (2017 and 2019) “How to add the “I” responsibly to LGBTQIA+”. Anunnaki’s most significant accomplishment is creating restitution for himself by winning the battle for Colorado’s first intersex birth certificate (September 2018), which led to his TEDx talk, Born Intersex: we are human! Anunnaki created and maintains OIIUSA.org a centralized location for information on intersex experiences and resources from many organizations around the globe.
Despite increasingly severe disabling health challenges and becoming a widow, Anunnaki graduated with his MDiv from Meadville Lombard Theological School May 2026. He works as an online LGBTQIA+ public chaplain and will complete his CPE Chaplaincy training after graduation to become a certified Chaplain. Among the many times he has educated, he has taught an intersex unit for the Northwest Institute on Intimacy in “Advanced Clinical Sexology.” His Rainbow Human Rights Community FB page has over 50,000 followers. He believes that if we can normalize intersex people’s existence, we can finally end the violations of the human rights of intersex children. Learn more at anunnakiray.com.
May 31: “It Is Time” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
The ancestors have gifted this moment. What do we imagine offering the descendants of our time? What is our present to the future?
The UUFA Annual Meeting follows worship after a short break.
Are you seeking more ways to explore the theme of awakening curiosity?
Consider reflecting on these quotes:
The best spiritual instruction is to wake up in the morning and say, “I wonder what’s going to happen today.” – Pema Chodron
The place where we are right
is hard and trampled like a yard.
But doubts and loves
dig up the world…
And a whisper will be heard in the place
where the ruined
house once stood. – Yehuda Amichai
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. – Rumi
When people are extremely angry and even hostile with the way they express an opposition to something, the challenge is to figure out what it is they’re trying to protect. – Mónica Guzmán
Some questions you may use as a prompt for conversation or for a journal entry follow:
- During childhood, what one or two things were you most curious about? How do you see an echo of that in your life today?
- Is it time to be more curious about what your body is trying to tell you?
- Do you think you are worth someone being curious about? Have you always felt that way?
- When it comes to you worrying about the future or being curious about it, which one wins?
- What familiar thing (a person, object, or routine) in your life is asking you to approach it with a beginner’s mind?
