Join PUUF on Zoom for our last 4pm 1 1/2 hour RE session (look for the link on Sunday). Bring ideas for the upcoming spring semester. After the short planning session, we’ll watch and discuss a video on UUs and Christmas. Hope to to see you on-line. Happy Holidays.
Don’t miss the 32nd annual Festival of Lights to be presented virtually on Sunday. Christmas is a time for feasting, for gifts, for merrymaking, and for reverent reflection. But it is also a time when strange beings are about: elves and ghosts and spirits both helpful and dangerous. Many eerie and wondrous traditions are associated … Continue reading Sunday Service Online – Festival of Lights
RE will continue via Zoom with discussion of the first four of Edgar Villanueva’s seven steps toward healing our relationship to wealth, from his book “Decolonizing Wealth.” In brief, these steps are: 1. Grieve: We have to stop and feel the hurts we’ve endured. 2. Apologize: We must apologize for the hurts we’ve caused. 3. Listen: We must acknowledge … Continue reading Religious Exploration
Waitsill and Martha Sharp put their values into action in 1939, assisting people escape persecution and death in the rise of Nazism and Hitler. To live true to our values, or to ‘walk the talk’, has real impact and consequences worth consideration. By what measure do we weigh the choice of silent inaction or action, … Continue reading Sunday Service Online – Values into Action
GRATITUDE BEYOND THANKSGIVING – SUNDAY WORSHIPOur lay-led Zoom Service will focus on Gratitude from different perspectives after this very unusual year and holiday celebration. Coordinators are Jim Mariani and Becky Hardy.
In keeping with our 2020-21 RE theme of social justice, November and December sessions will be devoted to Edgar Villanueva’s book Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. The book is available from many bookstores/online purchasing sources. RE attendees will be able to participate without having read the book.
This Sunday our congregation will kick off its annual loose change educational and fundraising program for the internationally active UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee). The program is “Guest at Your Table” and features people from around the world. We will meet the guests via video as we save our change for one collective donation to UUSC … Continue reading Sunday Service Online
In keeping with our 2020-21 RE theme of social justice, November and December sessions will be devoted to Edgar Villanueva’s book Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. The book is available from many bookstores/online purchasing sources. RE attendees will be able to participate without having read the book.
Day of the Dead, All Souls Day, Day of Remembrance: These annual holy days all express and embody our need to come together, naming our loved ones who have passed. Gone in body, with us always in so many ways. For this special online service, please send pictures. We will share an altar of mementos. … Continue reading Sunday Service Online – Remembrance
The topic of Ageism will be the focus of Religious Exploration on October 25th. at 4pm. Facilitated by Becky Hardy, we will examine various definitions of ageism. Most of us encounter this form of bias in one way or another throughout our life span. Interestingly we may even act out this bias against ourselves, particularly … Continue reading Religious Exploration – Ageism
