UUGP’s Social Action Team will be presenting the Service. They will present the proposed 8th Principle, “articulating a commitment to the dismantling of white supremacy within the stated principles of our faith”. They will be sharing on-going activities they are participating in such as our Cooling Center and the Grants Pass Remembrance Project
Quin Collins Pehrson, Executive Director of the Redwood Foundation for Education, will share with us how the Foundation has invested over $9 million in grants and scholarships in our community since 1964. Formerly the Josephine County Educational Fund, the Redwood Foundation for Education has recently gone through a renaming and rebranding process to better represent their work and aspirations. Quin will share stories of high school students receiving scholarships, grants being awarded to community organizations, and how we can help support local students seeking higher education. Note: Our time for Joys and Sorrows during this service will be dedicated to remembering 9/11.
UUGP member Chas Rogers will share his personal story about growing up in a Christian family while experiencing the natural world through camping and hiking. Chas discovered the Science of Geology in college, which studies deep time and the evolution of Earth and provides answers to where humans fit in the history of our world.
Experts tell us that we are in liminal times and experiencing collective trauma that yearns to be healed. What can we learn from the Sufi Islamic embodiment rituals practiced to bring more healing into our own lives and communities? How can embracing embodied healing help heal and lead us to collective salvation, freedom, peace and love? Please join us as we welcome the Rev. Summer Albayati, our primary contact from the Pacific Western Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association and let us explore the answers in a spirit of love.
In a world addicted to speed, slowness is a superpower. So say proponents of the Slow Movement, a cultural response to the mindset that faster is always better. Embracing slow food, slow cities, slow art, slow money, slow church, and much more, the Slow Movement has something to teach us about living well while treading lightly on the planet.
UUGP member Teresa Northcross shares what she has learned about Unitarian Dorothea Dix, a 19th century American woman whose trail-blazing work changed attitudes about mental illness and improved care for mentally ill people all over the world.
“Heart Based Care” What is the best way to care for ourselves and to care for others? Our guest Dr. Rubenstein will address this question in his message about a heart-based approach to well being and spiritual fulfillment.
Rev. Abigail Clauhs returns to our pulpit with her message, “Growing Hope” In times that can feel apocalyptic, where do we find the thread of hope? What are the stories (from the sacred to the solarpunk) that can sustain us to go on?
What does it mean to be part of a Circle? What are Circle Forums? Join Lauren Oliver as she explains how Circles enable groups to co-create enduring, healthy, life-affirming community, engaged in action that makes a difference.
Death is a thief that steals our loved ones, breaks our hearts, and ravages our lives. One of life’s few guarantees, death will come for each of us in time. What good is it? Does the natural world offer hints at deeper purposes that might help us befriend Death? Mary Oliver’s poetry often touched on death as integral to life, and when enriched by understandings from science, her beautiful words inspire a new, friendlier relationship with it. (Our Outreach Offering this morning supports our 1st Principle Project.)
