For the next few weeks, I want to focus in our worship on the issue of leadership. What qualities are… Read more In Times of Change
Author: Rick
My life-long passion is in the arts: music, theater, visual arts, and literature. I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985 with a degree in music composition. After a career in Human Resources with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and as a parish minister for Unitarian Universalist churches in the Los Angeles area, I retired in 2025 and pursued my artistic work: drawing, painting, composing, and creative writing.
Who’s In Charge?
Today, we worship just two days before the mid-term elections. I could add to the incidents of violence that we… Read more Who’s In Charge?
Good Communication
In a busy church like ours, it’s important that folks in the congregation know what’s happening. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy… Read more Good Communication
UUCLB History
One Hundred and Five years ago, this church, was founded. Here’s how the event is described on our church’s website:… Read more UUCLB History
Good Enough, Smart Enough, Strong Enough
Twentieth Century Unitarianism took on a strong humanist bent that continues to influence (if not define) us today. Has the… Read more Good Enough, Smart Enough, Strong Enough
The Rainbow Connection
The fringe Unitarian theology of Transcendentalism (which eventually took over the whole of the faith) holds that every human has… Read more The Rainbow Connection
From the Ground Up
In April next year, our congregation will host the District Assembly of the Pacific Southwest District. Unitarian Universalists from congregations throughout… Read more From the Ground Up
Love and Justice
The core theology of the Universalist side of our history is that God’s primary character is love, not justice. So… Read more Love and Justice
At Most One God
The nominal theology of our historic faith, that God is a unity not a trinity, may seem obscure to us. … Read more At Most One God
Church History
On September 9 we return to our regular worship schedule of two services, 9am and 11am, and a new church… Read more Church History