Purpose: process climate grief so you can face reality & do what is yours to do
Audience
• Ages high school & older
• All genders & sexual orientations warmly welcome
• Non-activists, wanna-be activists, & activists alike
• Any religious/spiritual affiliation or none at all
Philosophical/Theological … read more.
6:30 multi-generational holiday service
Capote’s 1932 childhood memory of one Thanksgiving in rural Alabama, “The Thanksgiving Visitor” explores themes of bullying, reconciliation, revenge, and what it means to forgive. The dramatic reading will be presented by TUS members Bob Haug, Harriet Lindblom, and others with music provided by our … read more.
A multi-generational exploration of meditation and our complicated relationship with strong emotions – anger, grief, discomfort, confusion, loneliness. No mediation experience needed; an open heart and a curious mind welcome. If you have a complicated Thanksgiving celebration in your near future, perhaps this service might … read more.
We will explore our desires, aspirations, and fallings short when it comes to peace and war on this 100th anniversary of the end of the War to End All Wars. Special guests will include past recipients of the Bosnian Student Fund, a congregational project, passing … read more.
Two hundred years ago, ordinary people brought an end to an infamous slave ring and a new law was passed in NJ ending the slave of enslaved people from this state to other states. On the eve of Election Day, we’ll explore how change happens … read more.
The world seems to be getting scarier and more violent as time passes. What can we do, as a Unitarian Universalist congregation and as people of conscience and faith, to grow not only our own safety, but peace in the wider world? Connection, connection, connection. … read more.
Marking the 30th Anniversary of National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11), TUS member Ken Kohler will speak of his experiences growing up gay, recognition of his gayness, and the continuous process of coming out as a gay man. In the wake of marriage equality and … read more.
This month’s theme is sanctuary, so let’s explore our sanctuary – the room where we hold our Sunday services, this unique building, the wooded oasis in the middle of Suburbia. For whom is this sanctuary? For whom else could it be? How do we let … read more.
Climate chaos? The erosion of democracy? Terrorism? We’ll explore the choice to create sanctuary – “islands of sanity” as Meg Wheatley terms it — in our hearts, homes, and homelands. This is different than walling ourselves off and narrowing our understanding of who is kin. … read more.
