Eminent psychiatrist and author, George Vaillant, observes in Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith that “It is so much easier to sing of joy than to talk about it.” In keeping with April 2025’s Soul Matters theme, The Practice of Joy, this year’s UU Troubadours service will feature music expressing joy and celebrate the joy of making and sharing music. UU Troubadours are singer/songwriters who make our Unitarian Universalist faith more accessible and who inspire us to higher levels of spiritual awareness, communal experience, and compassionate activism. We’ll pay homage to music icon Pete Seeger, who inspired us to establish years ago an annual tribute to UU Troubadours. We’ll also feature a variety of UU singer/songwriters—homegrown and beyond, old and new— and, of course, enjoy live and online performance of their music.

Topics: Soul Matters Themes, UU Principles