Travel through time to find out what ancient forests have become and how they help regulate Earth’s Climate. How will we preserve their qualities in our modern age so they can accomplish their important attributes? Forest Justice seeks answers to the questions of moral rightness and justice for all living things as we explore the future of our world.
Reverend Reynolds spent time this winter with family and friends in South Africa and was immersed in a very different cultural and political milieu that offered opportunities to reflect on how differences and commonalities exist across cultures. Shared values, universal feeling and longings are expressed around the world, and deeply held common values help to inspire action. Let’s explore how a love centered faith can both inspire and sustain us, and how such a faith expresses itself globally as justice seeking.
UUGP member Gary Lark, with a little help from others, will lead us in a service to celebrate National Poetry Month.
Steve Roe uses his registered therapy dog, Hope, with local students, hospice and hospital patients, and other community activities to bring comfort to others. Steve, accompanied by Hope, will talk about how he started with therapy dogs, how a therapy dog is trained and tested, and how Hope helps people of all ages with her visits.
Every one of you may have a different idea of what you would like to see resurrected — in our world, our lives, and our country. Let’s explore together what a resurrection would look like and how we can make it happen.
Please join us after church for a Pot Luck Lunch and Easter Basket Raffle!
Small-town newspapers have never faced greater challenges than they do today. But they’ve also never been more important for their reporting on community news that would otherwise go uncovered.
At 20, young Luther discovered Darwin’s “Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication” and it opened a new world to him. He realized that instead of waiting for the mysteries of divine creation, one could rightly and properly help those mysteries unfold with selective breeding. He became a world-renowned expert in plant breeding, and suggested applying this new science to other species. We will review and discuss how the debate over human breeding intrigued him, and how a childless scientist became a sought-after expert on child rearing with his book; “The Training of the Human Plant.”
The League of Women Voters of the Rogue Valley faces a busy 2024. We walk a fine line between being a non-partisan voter education service, yet advocating for issues which our members have studied and discussed. After a brief history of the Rogue Valley League, we will identify the local issues the 2024 election year will address. The League stays out of candidate recommendations, but we do ask questions—because “Democracy is not a Spectator Sport.”
That humans are having major impacts on the planet is now quite clear, and some of those impacts may be evident millions of years from now. Are we a cancer on the biosphere, a plague? Would it be better if we had remained blissfully in the stone age? Our angst about such matters may be no more helpful to building sustainable systems than is white guilt in forging racial justice. Guilt about environmental destruction won’t help build a sustainable society, but active love might, the kind of love we have for our teenagers when they’re especially annoying. JD Stillwater somehow relates all of this to romantic relationships, beautiful sunsets, and Joni Mitchell.
Rev. Landale will explore the precepts of satyagraha (truth-force or soul-force) and ahimsa (nonviolence) as a way of life, in all aspects of our lives.
