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About Us

About Us

We welcome you: your whole self, with all your truths and your doubts, your hopes and your worries, your joys and concerns.

We are open-minded, caring, thinkers and doers who come together in community to make meaning in our lives and to make a difference in the world. We are diverse in faith and backgrounds, but aligned in our belief in the worth and dignity of every person. Here, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, and your expansive heart.

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Universal Justice

Universal Justice

Our UU Principles call us to affirm:

Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations;
The goal of a world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
Respect for the interpendent web of all existence of which we are a part;

And,
Our UUSMV calls us to:

Foster community action and universal justice.
See how we live our mission and principles through community and justice actions . . .

Universal Justice

Connect with Reverend Janet Newton

Connect with Reverend Janet Newton

Would you like to connect with Rev. Janet?
Here are three ways:
NEW! Coffee Shop Office Hours! Come connect at the Cozy Corner Cafe (located at the Triangle in Edgartown) on Tuesdays from 11-1, or the Black Dog Bakery on State Road in Vineyard Haven on Wednesdays from 12:30 - 2:30 pm.
You can always request one-on-one meetings that directly show up on my calendar through this link: https://calendly.com/revjanet
From there you can select a date, time, duration and
location. Please keep travel time in mind as you
schedule.
If neither of these options works for you, or if you have a more urgent need, please reach out by phone, text message or email and she will get back to you with options.

Schedule with Rev. Janet

Upcoming Events

Notes from your Church Administrator

Hi everyone, It has been a pleasure meeting more of you during our Sunday services. Send me dates, times and locations to add events to the calendar.  Please send anything for the Weekly Vineyard UU Voice by Thursdays at 10 am.  I am always open to suggestions and would love your feedback.  The best way to contact me is the UUSMV email:  uu.society.mv@gmail.com .  

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a wedding at our chapel

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Weekly Vineyard UU Voice

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Recent Services

Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard May 5, 2024 " Managing Chaos in a Pluralistic World" with Rev. Janet Newton Much has been made recently about the ease with which some people seek to gain or hold power through sowing chaos and division. How might we use our appreciation of diversity and pluralism to respond to that chaos? What pragmatic practices do we have access to as we seek to manage the fear, anxiety or confusion that might grow out of the seeds of chaos when they are widely sown?
Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard April 21, 2024 "Woven With Wood: Trees and Interdependence" with Adam R. Moore We know that trees compete. They grow upwards, toward the light, striving to be taller than their neighbors. Yet they also cooperate. They shelter each other. They share nutrients with their roots. They speak with scents. They are interdependent, and part of their interdependence involves animals; we are one of those animals serving the interdependence of trees. This Sunday message will be delivered by Adam Moore, president of Sheriff's Meadow Foundation. Adam is the president of Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, which is the land trust for Martha's Vineyard. He has worked for Sheriff's Meadow since 2008. Prior to Sheriff's Meadow, he was the Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, the land superintendent for the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission, and a forester with Connwood Foresters. He holds a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of the Environment and a B.A. in Biology from Yale. He lives in Chimark with his wife, Melissa, and they have raised four children here: Madeleine, Isabel, Ingrid, and Huck.
Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard morning message from the April 14, 2024 service. "We Thought that Was Just a Metaphor: Acting On Our Interdependence" with Reverend Janet Newton
A person is a person by other people. This statement is a traditional proverb widely used by Bantu-speaking African people. Sociology Prof. Emeritus Dunbar Moodie will speak from the pulpit about his own experience to illuminate the truth and wisdom of this saying as we apply it to our own lives in this complex modern world.
"Why Wait?" with Rev. Jill De La hunt Rev. Jill De La Hunt has been a Buddhist practitioner for 35 plus years. Her teacher is Roshi Joan Halifax. Rev. Jill received precepts from the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh in 1992 and from Roshi Joan in 2015. She is a graduate of the Upaya Zen Center chaplaincy training program. In 2019, Rev. Jill received lay ordination from Roshi Joan. She received Hoshi entrustment from Roshi Joan in 2022. Through her vows, Rev. Jill is humbly committed to facing systemic injustices and working to dismantle white supremacy and other forms of oppression. She lives on the Island and serves as Dharma Guide for Island Insight Meditation Community.
Fixing What’s Ours to Fix: Accountability in Transformation with Reverend Janet Newton The history of humankind is full of examples of one culture or nation aiming to transform…other cultures or nations. Why would we bother engaging in the kind of self-examination that could produce radical transformation from within when it’s easier (and significantly more lucrative) to force change upon others? Upon the cultures who were colonized, upon the lands that were viewed by those colonizers as theirs to mine for wealth and resources, upon the people themselves whose very existence — whose breaths and bodies and lives — were not deemed to be worthy of autonomy? The geopolitical landscape we now view from our windows or consume through our preferred media is the inheritance of this mindset. Now what? How do we live into meaningful accountability for these grievous wrongs?
Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard March 3, 2024 Making Peace with the Bible with Rev. Lara Campbell
Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard February 25, 2024 How Then Shall We Live with Rev. Michael J. Crumpler (via pre-recorded video) and Pianist , Lisa Weiss
Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard Morning service message on February 18, 2024 "Letting Ourselves Get Lost" with Reverend Janet Newton
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