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Death Cafe (5/5)

We welcome you to our Death Cafe. It is a respectful space where you can feel comfortable sharing your questions, curiosity, fears, beliefs, and stories about any / all aspects of death, grief, mourning, bereavement. We have learned that there is often lots of laughter, as well as a few tears. We will start in May and meet bimonthly for 1.5 hours. During the sessions we will try writing, maybe delivering eulogies, writing living wills, consider burial options, cremation, video remembrances, create a song list for your memorial service, and so much more. This isn’t morbid or sad, it is […]

Celebrating Diversity (Beyond Beloved Conversations)

Host: Rev GordonWhen: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Starting May 18 and Continuing for Six Saturday Sessions (5/25, 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22)Where: Zoom Room 1 Join us as we meet for six sessions developed to engage our feelings, thoughts, prejudices, and more, as we watch, read, and listen to voices from a wide spectrum of ethnic, racial, queer, and religious groups. Our goal will be to unpack our own complicity with the linked oppressions and develop the ability to move past the issues that separate our human family. Please commit to have read, watched, and engaged with materials from any […]

Harvest the Power Leadership Development Class

Host: Rev Matthew Location: Zoom We are excited to join the EmersonUU congregation in their Harvest the Power Leadership Development class. This class asserts that leadership in a congregational setting can and should be a deeply spiritual experience. This program offers opportunities to enrich and deepen leadership skills as well as spiritual growth, in a way that honors the gifts that each of us brings. Harvest the Power is designed for adults of all ages and stages, young adults through elders, who currently hold or are considering accepting a congregational leadership position. Led by Rev. Matthew McHale & Rev. Rebecca […]

NewUU

Host: Rev Gordon, Phyllis RWhen: November 11, 9:45am – 1:00pmWhere: Private HomeRSVP to Phyllis by November 8Lunch will be provided! Unitarian Universalism is not a well known religious community in our country, despite being integral to the founding of the nation we are largely in the shadows of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism. We invite you to join us for an informative and spiritually-enriching conversation. Together, we will explore personal spiritual journeys and UU History and Theology. Liberal religionists have deep roots, and continue to impact history. Part of that history is illuminated by our progressive stance on Social Justice. […]

Reading with Rev Gordon

Host: Rev GordonWhen: 7:00pm Beginning December 7th and continuing on the 1st and 3rd ThursdayWhere: ZOOM Join Rev Gordon in reading An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United Statesby Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz which is now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck. * 2015 Recipient of the American Book Award We will be reading approximately two chapters at a time for 6 sessions. Please Click Here for the syllabus. More About the Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a New York Times best-selling author, grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has […]