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By Linda A. Dove November 13, 2022 Last time, I traced our UU origin story through the long centuries of the Holy Roman Empire with leaders like Athanasius, Arius, Scotus, Wycliff, Servetus, Ference, and the Socinuses . Their efforts planted the seed of UUism’s tree within Christianity. In the 1500s and 1600s, many Protestant sects, fleeing persecution, migrated back and forth between the Netherlands and England. I ended by noting how UUs, among others, fled to America, again

September 25, 2022 by Linda A. Dove In my talk today, we’ll discover some roots of our many-branched Unitarian-Universalist tree, mainly in Europe. Later, we’ll climb some of our younger branches reaching into the western world. This way, I hope all of us will come to share an appreciation of how our roots and branches spread, and how we must now stand tall as a mature, life-sustaining tree. I hope this will help fertilize seedlings for the future of HUU. UU-ism has a histor

August 7, 2002 A service to celebrate our “Grand Reopening. Merle Wenger will present the message on what it means to “come home to our physical space” after more than two years when we met on Sunday morning through Zoom. Linda Dove will present an original poem to mark the occasion and several members will offer their reflections on coming home. Opening Reading: “So are we bound together” By

July 24, 2022 by Linda Dove Good morning, my dear UU community and friends. Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? It’s a wonderful feeling, isn’t it? But today I share with you, my feelings of intense grief and loss. Love and loss, of course, are yin and yang and so grief stares at me in the mirror these days. Lately, grief, even horror, have worn down my resilience and sense of connectedness. So today connectedness is my theme. I grieve about the contemporary absence

July 10, 2022 by Mwizenge Tembo, Ph. D Emeritus Professor of Sociology In my message this morning, I will discuss the relationship between Critical Race Theory (CRT), Power, Humility, and Happiness in Our Lives. I will first define and describe these terms and conclude with how they may be related to our happiness. We may not appreciate the significance of CRT unless we understand its brief history. This may help dispel some of the myths and controversy that surrounds the ter