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by Bill Fahey
North Chapel Sunday Services are held in the Sanctuary at 10 am.
Service reflections will continue to be recorded whenever possible.
The videos will be available on our YouTube channel here and website below.
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Last Sunday’s Reflection
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Reflection by Nathalie Kramer
“How do our memories and experiences shape our sense of home?”
Home is not only a place we return to, but a feeling we recognize—a quiet sense of belonging that can live in a person, a memory, or even a moment. It is the echo of where we have been and the shape of what has held us, sometimes without walls or a fixed address. To feel at home in the world is not to be rooted in one spot, but to carry within us a thread of connection—woven from memory, relationship, and meaning—that allows us to arrive, again and again, wherever we are.
Nathalie was born in Paris and grew up in France and California. Her prose has appeared in Santa Monica Review, Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Mediterranean Poetry, Bloodroot Literary Journal. Her poem, “I Long to See Her Unharmed Breathing Air the Earth is Meant to Breath” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and will be anthologized in Singing in the Dark: Poems of Protest and Witness. She was a Writer in Residence at the Annenberg Beach House, received her MFA in fiction from Bennington College. She currently lives in Vermont where she teaches French at Woodstock Union High School. Summers, she continues to work on her novel and to teach Creative Writing Workshops.
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WORSHIP THEME
March 2026
Side With Love
You are loved beyond belief. You are enough, you are precious, your work and your life matter, and you are not alone. You are part of a “we,” a great cloud of witnesses living and dead who have insisted that this beautiful, broken world of ours is a blessing worthy of both deep gratitude and fierce protection. Our ancestors and our descendants are beckoning us, compelling us onward toward greater connection, greater compassion, greater commitment to one another and to the earth.
- Ashley Horan
Previous Sunday Services
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Reflection by Rev. Leon Dunkley
“It's a Sign”
Our faith urges us to appreciate the beauty that is right in front of us…because very often, the beauty that is right in front of us is a sign of the sacred. The beauty is not the goal. It’s how we are most easily reminded of the goal…because very often, beneath the veil of beauty lies something spectacular. The beautiful signs in our world can often be misleading but with just a little bit of work, we can touch the holy.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Reflection by Rev. Leon Dunkley
Sacred Escape
It is forever the project to get out of the places we get into, to move out from the darkness and back into the light, to break out of our prisons and find freedom once again. To side with love is to honor grace. To side with love is to cherish life. To side with love is to nurture sacred escape. To side with love is to do the unimaginable - like Milarepa did, like Jonah did, like Houdini. We have the keys. Let’s use them.
Memorials and Tributes
We offer a place to honor those who have passed.
All are invited to send photos and stories to the office so that they can be included in the online tributes on this page of our website.
Contact Us
North Universalist Chapel Society 7 Church Street, Woodstock VT 05091 Directions/Map
Minister: Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley can be reached by calling or texting 802-369-5104.
Administrative Assistant: Joanne Boyle can be reached at 802-369-9838 or northchapelcommunications@gmail.com
Director of Spiritual Education: Tatum Barnes can be reached at 646-675-9232 or tatumali1030@gmail.com