We all know that climate crisis is real and drastically pressing. You must be already doing many things to counter these challenges. That’s your green practice. What can we do beyond that? One immediate thing to do is to plant more trees. Kazuaki Tanahashi will share his experience of working with Brazilian friends to ask indigenous people to plant trees in Amazon Rainforest as an example of action that can be taken by ordinary citizens.
Forgiveness can feel as immovable as the stone at Jesus’ tomb, but he moved it anyway. Come, let’s celebrate the return of Jesus and reflect on what we need to move stones of forgiveness in our lives.
The vision of the Grants Pass area Habitat for Humanity is to create a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Since 1993, they have built 23 affordable homes in partnership with families and community members in our area. Carter will talk about his experience with Habitat and opportunities to get involved.
Women’s identity sits at the intersection of gender, race, class, resource and accessibility. The history of Women in UU is not immune to the impact of those intersections. This reflection will explore the complexity of being a woman in a liberal faith.
We can carry the gifts of our elders forward. Our elders both respect individuality and carry the history of who we have been together. Jesse will share his journey from disconnection with his Native American heritage to blessing and inspiring community as an elder.
Start time 11:00, may also be accessed through RVUUF Youtube live stream)
A very nuanced question for a covenant-based faith built to be expansive, living, and adaptable. What are our shared goals? How will we know we have arrived… in the liberal world we aspire to create? When will we know that work of collective liberation is done? What does it mean if we never arrive? This service will explore what it means to arrive in the shifting intersections of faith, fellowship, and freedom.
The people of Oregon passed a referendum that allows psilocybin mushrooms to be used for treatment and spiritual purposes in Oregon. Psychedelic mushrooms will be highly regulated and yet will soon be fairly available. What does that have to do with you? For one thing, UU ministers such as our visiting minister, Rev. Katie Larsell, are training to become licensed guides. Why would a minister want to guide people on trips? Come and find out how mushrooms and religion go together.
UU is a living tradition that thrives on being in conversation with itself; aspiring to be present, active, and alive in the NOW of our humanity. As we celebrate Black History Month, let’s explore UU Black History and just as importantly, how we can manifest our collective liberation through the lens of Black Liberation.
If we’re lucky, at some point in our lives we have places where we feel deeply welcome, we feel like we belong. And likely we’ve experienced other places where our belonging feels. . . not quite there. How would a newcomer know they belong at First Parish Framingham? Or in Unitarian Universalism? Using the Buddhist concept of the near enemy, we explore what sneaky, hard-to-recognize obstacles can undermine not only an authentic sense of belonging in our congregations and faith tradition, but can undermine Unitarian Universalism itself.
Charles Darwin’s maternal grandfather was Josiah Wedgwood, a man from a poor family of religious dissenters whose education was cut short at age seven by his father’s death. Nevertheless, Wedgwood became a renowned and innovative manufacturer of elegant pottery. He and Charles’s other grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, were not only friends but leading lights of the English Enlightenment.
