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Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh with Service Associate Carol Johnson There’s an idea that there is only a thin veneer of civilization, with things like law and authority, that keeps us all in check, keep us from becoming savage beasts. It seems like common sense, to the point that it’s a movie trope that the civilized … Continue reading The Thin Veneer of Civilization
Pesenter: Rev. Tim Boeve with Service Associate Joan Ward Rev. Boeve’s presentation arises from the book “Think Again,” by NYT bestselling author Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, named Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. Grant argues that “Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, … Continue reading “The Value of Not Knowing.”
Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh When I was in seminary, I once commented about the uniqueness of UU Sunday services, and my instructor (in UU history and polity) said, “not at all, they are very much like Calvinist, Protestant services. That’s their history.” I was shocked! So, even though our message is different, the format of … Continue reading Peeking Behind the Curtain: How We Do Worship
Presenters: Barley Donahue and Susie Linderman We will explore why dance is important to all beings. We will be exposed to NIA, from instructor Susan Mitchie Maitlin. NIA is a form of dance that includes martial arts and fluid movement. We will join together and play percussion instruments. The lead singer of Mary’s Island, Fer … Continue reading Let It Be A Dance
Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh; Service Associate: Michael Swords Walt Whitman once said, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” The Internal Family Systems model suggests that we all contain multitudes of personalities, parts, in our psyches, and further, that some parts may be suppressed or exiled … Continue reading Becoming Whole People
Joy shows up most often when we are present and open to the uncontrollable beauty of life. Joy recedes when we lose touch with the present, when we are so preoccupied with the future, with trying to control where things are going, that we can’t see what delights might be popping up right in front … Continue reading Embracing Joy
Marsha Buly, Service Assoicate; Adele St. Pierre, Reader The Flower Communion is an annual springtime celebration in most Unitarian Universalist congregations, celebrating the beauty of diversity. Traditionally each person brings a flower, preferably found in their own garden or by the roadside, and each person leaves with a different flower. We’ll redesign that ritual for … Continue reading Flower Communion
Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh – Service Associate: Jane Castleman We live in an enigmatic world, one that deep down, doesn’t make ‘common sense’ at all. Yet the physical evidence is sound – the world is ‘quantum’ in nature. It’s hard to make sense of, hard to describe (without advanced mathematics). But we can try. Starting … Continue reading Quantum Universe – Part 2
Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh – Service Associate: Jane Castleman We live in an enigmatic world, one that deep down, doesn’t make ‘common sense’ at all. Yet the physical evidence is sound – the world is ‘quantum’ in nature. It’s hard to make sense of, hard to describe (without advanced mathematics). But we can try. Starting … Continue reading Quantum Universe – Part 1
Presenter: Dee Dee Camhi – Service Associate: Priscilla Taylor The Summer Solstice is that time of year when the sun is at its furthest point from the equator. It has been marked as the high point of summer–or midsummer–since the Neolithic time. At the same time, the Southern Hemisphere points away from the sun, creating … Continue reading Celebrating the Summer Solstice
