We can all become depressed and discouraged by the news about ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss and climate chaos. There are ways big and small to push back against these seemingly insurmountable problems. Emilyn will be talking about the permaculture design system and the food forest project she started on her property during COVID and how … Continue reading Gaia’s Gifts: Exploring Edible Plants
As UUs, we sometimes struggle with defining our spirituality, and the conventional words don’t seem to fit. Indeed, some of us have complicated past experiences with the religions of our childhoods. The late Forrest Church, longtime minister of the United Church of All Souls in NYC and author of more than two dozen books challenges … Continue reading “You Say You’re Not Religious”: A Forrest Church Sermon
The “Noonday Demon” is how some early Christian commentators described the deadly sin of “sloth” or “acedia”. On the first Sunday of the summer season Rev. Dr. Michael Schuler will be discussing the conflicting roles of work and leisure – down time – in our culture and how the former has sometimes led to a … Continue reading The Noonday Demon
Dr. Ebert finds delight in the role that intellectual curiosity and education plays in lifelong learning. As a St. Norbert student taking his first class in philosophy in the 1970s, Howard discovered how the college classroom was a haven, a special place with the opportunity to let imagination run, to talk freely, to think out … Continue reading Gathering Fragments of Hope: Meaning, Purpose, and God
Summer’s slower pace offers opportunities to experience things we often can’t find time for during the rest of the year. Unitarian Universalists have always been known to pursue personal summertime spiritual delights because historically many of our congregations took the summer off. Even though we now meet regularly over the summer, please take the time … Continue reading Delight Your Spirit This Summer
Join us for our annual Flower Communion, a uniquely UU ritual originally created by Unitarian minister Norbert Čapek in 1923 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It is a celebration of beauty, diversity, and community. Participants are invited to bring a flower, and during the ceremony, choose one different from the one they brought. See the UUConnect for the service … Continue reading Flower Communion
Mel relays the ways in which her art making informs every aspect of her life but most notably her spirituality. Mel is an artist, speaker, instructor and arts advocate who makes her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She specializes in large series of tiny art through printmaking and collage. See the UUConnect for the service logon information … Continue reading “Things take the time they take” – The Creative Process as a Spiritual Practice
On this Sunday we lift up the creativity of our many volunteers. So many serve our Fellowships in so many ways and often their creativity goes unnoticed. See the UUConnect for the service logon information or click on May 21 in the calendar.
Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914, designating the 2nd Sunday in May as a national holiday to honor mothers in the U.S. We all honor our mothers in our own way, and as there are as many of us, there are as many memories and feelings. They gave us life. Some gave their lives. … Continue reading A Tribute to Mom
Unitarian Universalists are by nature independent thinkers, seekers of new ideas, and grounded in what some would call “romantic” optimism. Our positive creativity seeks to balance the negativity we often find in our broken world. We have reason to be proud. See the UUConnect for the service logon information or click on May 7 in the calendar.
