Rev. Sandra Ingham has long been a UU, completing her education at the Unitarian Universalist seminary, the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California in 1998. She has experience with religious education, interim ministry, full-time and consulting ministry. She is strong in social justice, history and UU principles, with inspiring sermons and sympathetic pastoral care.
The life stories of people from within and without our faith tradition are all around us, surrounding us with love and hope and courage in a great cloud of witnesses. All that we have to do is let our hearts and minds be open to their presence. This week we will do that by remembering … Continue reading Online Service – Showing the Way
“Good grief” is a commonly used phrase. But where did it come from? And can grief be good? During this dark time in human history, grief is widespread. Grief is many-layered. The process of grieving is often ignored or not given its just due. Grieving for what we have lost during the past three months … Continue reading Online Service – Good Grief!?
Going home is a common enough phrase, as in “I am going home after work.” or “I will be going home two weeks after that.” But now, in these times, I find myself using the phrase in an entirely different way – “I want to go home!” That phrase keeps popping up in my head, … Continue reading Online Service – Going Home
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What commitments have you made in your life? To what have you committed yourself, your time, your energy, your resources? Why do you do this? How do you do this? Many of us have undoubtedly made commitments we wish we had not made, from the mundane to the possibly dangerous. Think about making a commitment … Continue reading Online Service – Commitment
Maybe because I grew up in a Christian home, Easter means something to me. Or maybe because the tragic and triumphant Easter story of Jesus’s life took on new meaning to me in the middle of my life when I was in seminary, Easter and all that precedes it during Holy Week is important to … Continue reading Online Service – Revisiting Easter (Again!)
This is a question that is applicable to most of life as we know it right now — from getting groceries to where and how to exercise to what is essential and what isn’t, all the way to what does it mean to be part of a church, a fellowship, a community of faith during … Continue reading Online Service – How Do We Make It Work?
In the not-so-long-ago-past, the phrase “March Madness” in this country referred to college basketball playoffs. This year, March Madness is something entirely different. Our world has been turned upside down — not only our world, but the entire world seems to have gone mad. We have little to go on in terms of guidance about … Continue reading Online Service – March Madness
Beginnings and endings always have a way of capturing our imagination. These perilous times are full of myriad endings and beginnings as we all shift our lives into a holding pattern between where we were – in a somewhat “healthy” world – to where the new normal will be. – Rev. Sandy
The wild women whose stories I want to begin to tell you on this Sunday morning were liberal Unitarian and Universalist female ministers who went where no men (or very few) would go. These women became known as the Prophetic Sisterhood partly because Cythia Grant Tucker wrote a book of that title about them, but … Continue reading Wild Women of the West
