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Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion May 5, 2019 Facilitator: Martha Sider The title of today’s service is taken from the song " White Coral Bells You’ll find it printed on the insert to the OOS. White coral bells upon a slender stalk, Lilies of the Valley deck my garden walk ¦ I, like many children, was introduced to this song at summer camp, Kenbrook Bible Camp. And yes, at that camp we sang mainly specifically Christian songs around the campfire, but t

by Nancy Barbour April 14, 2019 On Children (from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran) Introduction These words from Kahlil Gibran will frame what I have to share with you today. They provide an image of the child as a powerful human being. Though I am not a parent, I have spent most of the last 35 years as an Early Childhood Education scholar studying how children grow and learn and how families in the US and abroad support and care for their children. As an early childhoo

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. February 24, 2019 Defining Reflexivity The word “reflexivity comes from the Latin “reflectare, which means “bending back, as does light when it reflects off a mirror. In 1938 sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote about it arguing that an intellectual should reflect on their position in the world and how it affects their ideas and how their ideas affect it, with this mutual going back and forth key to reflexivity. He also discovered the idea of “self

By B. Don Franks, February 10, 2019 Atmosphere Personal experiences Positive influences Positive changes Critique of 2019 Next steps Atmosphere I was born in 1938 and lived in several towns in Arkansas until the early 60s. In this “last part of the Jim Crow era, Whites controlled all aspects of life, including politics, education, courts, and financial affairs. We were kept separate from Blacks (except for the servants). There was no mixing of the races in schools, cafes,

By Chris Edwards 2.3.2019 Readings “But February made me shiver With every paper I'd deliver Bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step “I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. “War reporting is still essentially the same – someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can’t get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having e