We UUs are ̶ by inclination and intention ̶ seekers. We seek knowledge and we seek insight. Sometimes intentional travel is our pathway and sometimes we journey within. Let’s travel together. Welcome Dennis back with us this Sunday!
Dorothy will share her thoughts on Walt Whitman, both the poet and the man. Whitman’s unique legacy of thought and language, combined with his democratic outlook and acts of service to others, holds special meaning for those of us trying to hold onto mystery, hope, generosity and inclusiveness in these modern times.
Today’s outreach gifts aid the Maslow Project.
Children’s RE Today
Our Monday afternoon Book Group has been reading a set of books unveiling the realities of racism in a white culture. Each of us will reflect on moments of significance for us this morning. Today’s outreach gifts benefit our First Principle Project.
It happened in the Lac du Flambeau region of northern Wisconsin one evening after a hike through virgin forest and a night spent camping on the shore of the Flambeau River and it changed my self-image forever.
Non-perishable items are collected for the Food Bank.
Children’s RE Today
Margaret Keip will swan dive into our UU principles with us as we celebrate membership this morning in a brief service preceding the January congregational meeting to adopt the 2020 budget.
Outreach gifts aid our First Principle Project, serving the homeless.
Martin Luther King Day gives us glad occasion to ponder racial relations. I didn’t realize I had inherited unearned, unacknowledged privilege until I opened to the marginalization and hurt others get due to their race. How can we live up to being Universalists, including ALL in our community and comity?
Children’s RE today
One of the questions routinely asked in Science Fiction is “what is the difference between a robot and a human being?” One answer is that humans experience ‘awe’ and robots do not. This sermon explores the spiritual emotion of awe, which connects us to big truths about life and our place in it. Our popular pulpit guest is a community minister with Eastrose Fellowship Unitarian Universalists in Gresham, Oregon.
Together we’ll recall people near, dear and notable whose lives concluded in 2019, and celebrate their legacies to us. We’ll light candles; we’ll sing; we’ll laugh; we may cry; and there will surely be a few surprises.
Today’s outreach offering benefits the Josephine County Food Bank, and non-perishable grocery items are invited, too.
Children’s RE today
The relationship between the winter solstice, Yule, and Christmas reflect three different methods our ancestors used to calculate the passage of time. We still celebrate some festivals on fixed dates (like the 4th of July) and others as moveable feasts (such as Easter). Might we do things differently, more simply?
Outreach gifts aid our evolving Homeless Support program
In this dark season and in these dark times in our country, we need more than ever to seek and to find the sustaining and inspiring light of new possibilities to guide us on our way forward. Let us celebrate in ritual, in song, and in story the powerful message of hope, love, joy, and peace that the Christmas story offers to us all. Dennis is a retired UU minister coming to visit us from Eugene.
