Sundays: 12 noon (CT) in-person and online
Presenter: Ted Fahy Service Associate: D’Vorah Kelley All ancient civilizations – Mayan, Navajo, Akkadian, Hindu, Hebrew – have had origin stories, including Gods, to explain the beginnings of the world and of humanity. Today, the sense of awe in the presence of the vast unknown that characterizes those stories has largely disappeared – and so … Continue reading “Why We Need God”
Presenter: Rev. Matt AlspaughService Associate: Lamar Allen What makes an organization — a team, a company, a town, a nation or for that matter, this fellowship — function well? How can the people that are part of such an organization grow and develop most fully? Clearly many traditional organizational models just aren’t working anymore, so … Continue reading “The Flourishing Community”
Presenter: Bob Craft Service Associate: Michael Swords “Using his own memories as examples, presenter Bob Craft will suggest that using AI to seek context around historical events we lived through may help to bring back fading details and memories of our personal stories attached to them. He will also present evidence that AI can reframe memories … Continue reading “Remember and Flourish”
Presenter: Rev. A. Shirley Service Associate: Hyacinthe Miller Musician: Wiley Beveridge The Rev. Sarah A. Shirley, Rector of St. Andrew Anglican Church will be the guest speaker at the Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, May 24. Her presentation will address such questions as, What is unity? Is it achievable on the earthly plane? … Continue reading Unity: Variations on a Theme”
Presenter: Richard Clarke Service Associate: Carol Johnson Richard Clarke will explore the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a guide not just for dying, but for living with clarity in the later years of life. Drawing on Tibetan Buddhist wisdom and the open, questioning spirit of Unitarian Universalism, he shows how the “Bardo”—the space between what was … Continue reading “What We Can Learn from the Tibetan Book of the Dead”
Presenter: Rev. Matt AlspaughService Associate: Priscilla Taylor What are the questions you live with? How do you cope with the lack of answers, with uncertainty, and doubt? Many people ‘find religion’ because they are uncomfortable with those unanswered questions, they want certainty, some form of truth. Many others ‘lose religion’ because they realize that the … Continue reading “Living the Questions”
Presenters: Elly Contreras, Joan Fletcher and Ann Godshall Service Associate: Tim Boeve This service will introduce a new nonprofit initiative at Lakeside called “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood” which seeks to bring compassionate culturally responsive dementia care for all those facing this affliction in our neighborhoods. The three-part presentation spearheaded by LCUUF member, Elly Contreras, along with … Continue reading “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood”
Peter Jeschofnig : Presenter Lamar Allen: Service Associate In 1964, at the age of twenty-one, Ajijic resident Peter Jeschofnig spent six months as a volunteer at Albert Schweitzer’s legendary hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon — one of the last people to know the great humanitarian personally before his death in 1965. In this talk, Peter reflects … Continue reading A Life Devoted to Reverence: One Volunteer’s Six Months with Albert Schweitzer
Presenter: Rev. Tim Boeve Service Associate: Ted Fahy Musician: Wiley Beveridge Two ways of being are available to us and we see both on display in today’s world of politics, daily living, and in nature. The Rev.T im Boeve will speak to these two ways in his message, Pro Bono, Quid Pro Quo and Us. One … Continue reading Pro Bono, Quid Pro Quo and Us
Presenters: Frank Watson, D’Vorah Kelley, Bob Koches Service Associate: Bob Craft Each of us is on a spiritual journey. Each of us is following our own path through life. Join us Sunday, April 12 as three of our members of the Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Riberas share their personal spiritual journey and how … Continue reading “Sharing Our Spiritual Journeys”
