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by Colleen Appel and Bob Eckels Every week, you hear from two people with a heart for fundraising. Emily Jamroch and Roberta Weeden have big plans for growing a capital fund. Currently, the envelope wall and the Coins for Change are bringing in money. But why is a fund so necessary at this time? I … Continue reading The church blogger: Why is a capital fund so necessary at this time?
You may have noticed it, too. One familiar face that you hadn’t seen in such a long time at First UU, and you were curious. Then enough returnees that you’re thinking it might be a trend. And then you saw three people at a service that you were afraid would never come back, and you … Continue reading The church blogger: What’s bringing those familiar faces back to church?
By Colleen Appel Our October theme of Cultivating Relationship invites us to consider who we want to become as a church community.How do we live our UU values, starting with one another?What promises do we need to make to one another? Parable of the Spoons – A Story and Song by Lea Morris – Introduction … Continue reading Relationships Called Church: Discovering What We Care About
by Dacia Reid and Eva Riebold Footnotes for the message are HERE. Our Opening Words this morning are the words of Sophia Lyon Fahs – a Unitarian Religious Educator whose work made its way into my Methodist childhood. While she speaks of children she also speaks of the self. . . . In this case … Continue reading Banned Books and Us
Homily by Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman An Ingathering Greeting – UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray The opening words are by Rev Megan Visser. We enter this space for kindness and comfort.May rough-worn hands and aching backs be healed.We enter this space of hope for equality.May those who labor to survive live to know justice.We enter this … Continue reading Labor in the Pulpit
by Mike Brown Moment of Perspective – AJ Fox – “Pause and Get Perspective” Moments The opening words are A Gift to Offer the World, by Rev Lisa Friedman. We touch the floorto remember that wherever we bring our best self is holy ground.We reach for the skyto remember that we are part of a … Continue reading Liberating Our Liberties
by Dr. Judith Martinez Dr. Martínez has been at Missouri State University since the fall of 2002 and is responsible for the development of infrastructure for selected academic diversity programs within the Division for Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Provost for Student Development and Public Affairs (APSDPA). More info about Dr. Martínez is here. Moment … Continue reading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education
by Charles Gray, Jessica Wirges, and AJ Fox The opening words are Another World is Possible, by Rev Ashley Horan. Another world is possible.We say it, again and again,even when the proof lies somewhere beyond the horizon,beyond our reach, beyond our imagination.This is our faith:Another world is possible……There are many routes toward liberation; toward freedom.But … Continue reading Liberation
by Rev Dr Kelly Murphy Mason, UU Society of Wellesley Hills, MA (originally delivered Oct 28, 2018)read by Elizabeth Self Moment of Perspective – Holding Space for Community Concerns – AJ Fox The opening words are And Yet You Persist, by Rev Gretchen Haley. Though you have been warnedAnd given plenty of explanationsReasons to do … Continue reading Truer Stories
by Rev Michelle Scott-Huffman Earlier this week, I started writing this sermon, as I often do, with thoughts free flowing in a random word document that may or may not get a name and get saved at some point before the end of the week (which means that sometimes those thoughts drift off into cyberspace … Continue reading A Celebration of In(ter)dependence
