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The Faraway Nearby

Rebecca Solnit says her 2013 essay collection is about story – but it mostly reminds us how difficult stories can be when they involve people close to us. Who doesn’t know that story? What is it about families and their discontents, so entangling? Religious Exploration offered for children.

Poetry Sunday

If you have a poem, short or long, bring it on for our Special Service Poetry Sunday. Contact Louise Rachin lrachin@comcast.net. It can be your own or one you like. You can read it yourself or hand it off to our skilled declamation specialists. Religious Exploration offered for children

Outside Epiphany

Saul was famously knocked off the donkey, but most UUs think in terms of Walden Woods or the Grand Canyon. Still, “direct experience” surprisingly remains our access point for “transcending mystery and wonder.” How does that work? Religious Exploration offered for children.

Outside Epiphany

Saul was famously knocked off the donkey, but most UUs think in terms of Walden Woods or the Grand Canyon. Still, “direct experience” surprisingly remains our access point for “transcending mystery and wonder.” How does that work? Religious Exploration offered for children.

Anger Management

One of the satyagraha principles Dr. King learned from Gandhi was the management of anger in the personal and public sphere. It is like dynamite, of course. Handle with great care, especially when the ends seem to be overwhelmingly positive. Religious Exploration offered for children.

Granite Statues, Feet of Clay

Who gets a statue in a public place, and why? Who doesn’t, and how do they feel about that? How does an artifact on display have meaning? Whose meaning should it be and why does that matter? Bill serves as FPUU Clerk on our Executive Board. Religious Exploration offered for children.

A Janus Service

The holidays fade, the New Year begins, the depth of winter comes – and our feelings may be ambivalent. This Sunday we will have rituals of Endings and Beginnings, letting go of what must now be past and welcoming our hopes and dreams for 2019. Religious Exploration offered for children.

Candlelight Christmas Eve for All Ages

Bring your family and friends to join in the magic. We will have special music, including our Choir. We will have stories traditional and modern from our young adults. We will have singing from all and bright candles of joy and celebration and hope again renewed.

The Live-Lamb Nativity

Everybody at the first Christmas was there by chance. The animals were, of course, but also all those “travelers afar.” No Religious Exploration – Little Lights only.