First Existentialist Congregation
An independent member of the Unitarian Universalist Association
What might the search for the divine look like if extended to other planets? Could understanding religious practices and reincarnation beliefs on alien worlds change the shape of many belief systems on Earth?
Facilitator: Marti Keller
Musician: Snake Oil Medicine Show Band with Craig Rafuse
Anton Flores-Maisonet will explore how love transcends even the harshest immigration policies. Drawing on his work at Casa Alterna—where radical hospitality provides housing, solidarity, and community to hundreds of vulnerable immigrants from over 50 countries—he will share how love breaks through political and geographic walls to demand justice, accompany those caught in the deportation pipeline, and renew hope in the Beloved Community.
Facilitator: Libby Ware
Musician: Bill Chelton
Facilitator: Wade Marbaugh
Musician: Mick Kinney
In these distressing, chaotic times, it can be hard to maintain balance and a reasonable hope. A discussion of the challenges, various ways to cope, and how to rise to the occasion.
Facilitator: Cindy Lou Who
Musician: Charli Vogt
In a world that often feels overwhelming, where injustice and fear seem to hold power, how do we find the courage to resist? How do we cultivate the resilience to keep moving forward? This Sunday, join Rev. Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs for a powerful exploration of Resistance and Resilience—how we can face the challenges of our time with boldness, faith, and collective strength. Through reflection, storytelling, and a call to action, we will honor the spiritual practice of resistance and the sacred necessity of resilience.
Come ready to reflect, recharge, and remember that we are never alone in the struggle for justice and love. Together, we build a sanctuary of hope.
Facilitator: D. Patton White
Musician: Craig Rafuse
Inspired by Mother Teresa, adrienne maree brown, and her work as a hospital chaplain, Sara will talk about our most important duty and reward: to love our people. When despair seeps in it can get easier to lose our focus on what is right in front of us, but maybe what is right in front of us will sustain us through the hardest days – if we can keep those connections strong.
Facilitator: Jan Lister
Musician: Mick Kinney
Emil’ Keme is an Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar from Iximulew (Land of Corn, and the K’iche’ name for Guatemala), and professor of English and Indigenous studies at Emory University. He is a first-generation college graduate and professor. His teaching and research focus on contemporary Indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American-American literatures and cultures, and postcolonial and subaltern studies theory.
Facilitator: Rev. Marsha Mitchiner
Musician: Bill Chelton
What is possible is not always probable.
Facilitator: Wade Marbaugh
Musician: Alan Brown
Four First Existentialist members talk about the feminist movement, their role in it, and how it impacted their lives.
Facilitator: Charlene Ball
Musician: Charli Vogt
A relook at the rallying cry: Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History (past and present).. The speaker has done their share of being bad in the name of feminist social change.
Facilitator: D. Patton White
Musician: Jean Heinrich