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HUU – July 3, 2022 By Robin McNallie I recall Forrest Church once asserting that Unitarian Universalism is the denomination that, in its principles, is the most representative of American democracy, and we can look retrospectively to find earlier evidence of this freedom tendency in our denomination, specifically at the era of Transcendentalism, extending roughly from the 1830s to 1850. The great guru of that avant garde Unitarian movement was, of course Ralph Waldo Emerson,

By Les Grady May 22, 2022 At the request of the author, please DO NOT COPY OR REUSE SLIDES . Climate Change 2022 file is in pdf format.

by Linda Dove May 1, 2022 Our Conscious Living Adults group has heard this before. A soldier before the battle of Waterloo is reported to have prayed, “Dear God, if there is a god, save my soul, if I have a soul.” I’ve decided I’m no longer going to tiptoe around the “God” word. As UUs we’re often reluctant to refer to God with a capital “G”  for fear of offending our Humanist or Atheist members and friends. And many of us migrated from religions discomforted by their rituals

by Linda Dove January 23, 2022 Good morning. I’m going to talk common sense today! But I’ll disappoint you if you think I’m preaching revolution against the Brits as did Tom Paine in his 1776 pamphlet entitled Common Sense . No, my focus this morning is on everyday sense-making, one of our three HUU tenets, as you know. < =">#1</a><strong>" Know="Know" Thyself-Temple="Thyself-Temple" at="at" Delphi="Delphi"> I’ve always been interested in how we humans make sense of ourselves

by Dave Pruett January 16, 2022 The Dilemma The late cultural historian and Catholic priest, Thomas Berry wrote: “We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story.  We are between stories.” The “we” to which Berry refers is the human race, certainly the Western world. No one with eyes to see can deny that humanity is facing simultaneous existential crises: pandemics, climate instability, aging nuclear weapons on hair triggers, extreme disparities in wealth and p