{"id":30623,"date":"2025-09-04T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=30623"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:41:27","slug":"belonging-in-worship-bringing-our-whole-selves-here","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/belonging-in-worship-bringing-our-whole-selves-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Belonging in Worship: Bringing Our Whole Selves Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like there are parts of yourself or your life experience that you can\u2019t bring to church? Or, have you ever had the feeling that worship services should primarily be places for inspiring, uplifting messages, rather than spaces where we sometimes tackle harder subjects like grief, oppression, or loss? This service, led by Rev. Esther Wallace, will consider some of the ways we can create belonging, inclusion, and welcoming community through co-creating a space where it is safe to bring our whole selves into worship.<\/p>\n<p>Minster:\u00a0 Rev. Esther Wallace<br \/>\nWorship Associate:\u00a0 Carolyn Johnson-Gutter<\/p>\n<p>To view this service, click on the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Belonging in Worship: Bringing Our Whole Selves Here,&quot; led by Rev. Esther Wallace\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/czsRmtw9V-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like there are parts of yourself or your life experience that you can\u2019t bring to church? Or, have you ever had the feeling that worship services should primarily be places for inspiring, uplifting messages, rather than spaces where we sometimes tackle harder subjects like grief, oppression, or loss? This service, led &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/belonging-in-worship-bringing-our-whole-selves-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belonging in Worship: Bringing Our Whole Selves Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-30623","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30661,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30623\/revisions\/30661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=30623"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=30623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}