The emotional, psychological, and evolutionary significance of dogs is intertwined with humanity. Our canine partners are even more than emotional healers, loyal companions, and mirrors of unconditional love. Dogs know how to "do love". Susan Blackmore will share perspectives from her personal life as a serial foster of rescues and handler of a medical alert service dog.

There is something awe-inspiring about AI, but also something unpredictable and a little intimidating as well. Whatever you think about data centers or “slop” images, it looks like the “noosphere” of the Super Mind is here to stay. We have a chance, right now, to establish approaches and address this rising frontier of capability and intelligence in ethical ways that benefit our world and our growth as a species. How will our Unitarian Universalist understandings of interdependence, transformation, and justice help us to avoid the kind of mistakes we made with our “biosphere”-- with the original “interconnected web” of our existence? How will awareness of our responsibility and our inner sense of right and wrong help us make good decisions at the crucial opening of this new age?

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This participatory, art-based worship experience invites people of all ages to explore curiosity, humility, and wonder together. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s invitation to “love the questions themselves,” participants will encounter the five sacred questions—Who? What? Where? When? and Why?—as invitations to explore, create, reflect, and discover new possibilities. Through creative stations and shared experiences, children and adults alike will have the opportunity to journey together, embracing questions not as problems to be solved, but as doorways into wonder and deeper understanding.

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