How much is the future worth, really? Is that value everything, or nothing, or a number somewhere in between? In a time of global climate change, the answer to this question is the most important one. What do we owe the world that comes after? Religious Exploration offered for children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We can all be experts in our own minds, even if in nobody else’s. The holidays are a good time to choose something different. Religious Exploration for children.
Are we getting used to sloppy stuff raining down from the very sky? Should we be? Is this a time to float or swim or both? Religious Exploration for children.
The First Woman got a bum rap in the First Story – and we have been living with the consequences ever since. They are not good. It turns out she is not the only character who is misunderstood. Let’s start at the beginning and reclaim the narrative for today. No Religious Exploration class.
