Upcoming Services

Mindfulness and Self Care

with Marge Heckman and Liz Connors

Marge and Liz will offer practices based in mindfulness for these times.

“Here We Go Again”

with Ron Cordes

Yet another re-run of this same vicious cycle that we’ve all seen too damned many times. Something unprecedentedly horrible happens and we get our hopes up and say “This time it will be different. This time things will certainly change.” And, of course, a month later America’s notorious short attention span has kicked in and we are back to the same old same old and my hopes are dashed. Yet, this time it truly looks like it might be different. Or is this just me being a cockeyed optimist?

“Miracles as Acts of Faith and Power”

with Dorothy Africa

Many people who consider themselves to be people of Faith do not consider ‘miracles’ to be prominent features of their belief. To medieval Christians, however, they were vital proofs of the truth of the Christian faith, and its power to manifest itself in the life of a Believer at any time. I will be considering two ‘miracle’ stories taken from the lives of two of the Irish saints I study that I think are of interest for their presentation of the conjunction of faith and power. Medieval Christians knew that miracles were by definition rare, but the desire for them was great, and hagiographers wrote with this very human desire in mind. I think these stories show an astute understanding of human nature, warts and all.

“Never Again!”

The Peace and Justice Committee will lead a service observing the 75^th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when over 200,000 people lost their lives. We will address some of the realities and myths of these tragic events, the enduring existential threat of nuclear weapons, and explore and how we as UU’s can answer the call of the Hibakusha, the atomic bomb survivors, “Never Again!”