Watershed

In keeping with the Soul Matters theme for January of Story, the Indigo Girls tell about a tragic event. They suggest that you take your time as you look at the fork in the road for moving forward. When you’re learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is worth your while. Listen […]

Building a New Way

The height of the pandemic provided a challenge for choirs. But the problem of having many voices singing together was not insurmountable. It just took doing things a new way. And as we are starting a new year, here is Building a New Way as performed by the Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton and Upton.

We Are UUs

Did you know that there is a UU anthem? The editors of Connections have run across a recording of the first and only rehearsal of We Are UUs. Sing along as the spirit moves you!

We Will Not Stop Singing

The Chapin Sisters wrote that “We will not stop singing ‘till the world can sing along. We will not stop shouting, shouting right from wrong ‘till the world can sing along.” Hear now We Will Not Stop Singing, featuring the choir of The First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.

We Rise

Batya Levine was crushed by the results of the 2016 election, but she rose past that. “I reached inward for a prayer, for a shred of hope, and what I found was the powerful and prayerful resistance I had witnessed and experienced at Standing Rock. In that moment, I started to sing, praying into my […]

Children Will Listen

In his play Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim wrote a song about how children are always seeing what we do and listening to what we say. So be careful what you say, children are listening. Listen closely as Barbra Streisand sings Children Will Listen.  

Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand

Diana Ross’ debut solo single carried a heavy gospel influence, accompanied by a message which encouraged consideration for others and a universal social conscience. Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand

Spirit

In their song, Spirit, Earth, Wind and Fire tells us that in love our spirits will be one.

Here There Is Wholeness

UUCDC is not the only church with musical talent. Enjoy Here There is Wholeness by Emily McKinney of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Springfield.