Faithful Thomas - Bluegrass Sunday 2025

Bluegrass Sunday! An annual tradition at UUMC celebrates the joy of the Easter season with music from some of our own church members sharing bluegrass music. The Gospel lesson shared in worship will be John 20:19-31 when the resurrected Christ appears to the disciple Thomas.

“We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation.”

– from The Canadian Creed

Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope… Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so that it can be recognized and shared. The magic of the high lonesome sound* is the magic of all art: the ability to both capture our pain and deliver us from it at the same time… The transformative power of art is in this sharing. Without connection or collective engagement, what we hear is simply a caged song of sorrow and despair; we find no liberation in it. It’s the sharing of art that whispers, “You’re not alone.”

– Brene Brown