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Church and State HUU service 7.17.’16 – Robin McNallie: Intro of Ben Fordney When Ben Fordney was alive, he on a number of occasions would introduce me as a guest speaker in the history classes he was teaching at Blue Ridge Community College and JMU’s Lifelong Learning Institute. So I now, with some real sadness, get briefly to do the same for him. Before his first retirement, Ben had a distinguished career in the foreign service, including a posting to South Vietnam in the

On July 3, 2016 Ray Hertzler, Beryl Lawson, Linda Dove, and Amy Thompson presented “Perspectives on Evolution." Linda A. Dove In 2006, in his last book, , Wendell Berry, cultural historian and eco-theologian, was concerned about our human devastation of Planet Earth through our aggressive commercial industrial Western culture. As a Catholic monk, he argued that this destructive behavior was sanctioned and encouraged by Christianity. (As you know, most UUs were Christian for

By Leah Rampy, Ph.D March 6, 2016 I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be with you today. Thank you, Joni, and to all of you for inviting me. How was your week? Did you find yourself calm, centered, and peaceful; breathing deeply; living joyfully and fully in the present? If you’re like many people, there were a number of times when you were distracted, worried, fearful, or anxious, times when your mind wouldn’t stop racing. Perhaps sleep was illusive and you found you

December 13, 2015by Rev. Kirk Ballin READINGS RESPONSIVE READING # 651 “The Body Is Humankind (7 Billion) Norman Cousins TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE Walt Whitman Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you. My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you t

October 4 th , 2015 by Joni Grady Welcome to another step in my attempt to make sense out of an increasingly irrational world. When I picked the title, , I had a rather different talk envisioned, one dealing only with the painful bifurcation of my life and the lives of everyone involved to extent with that most dreadful task, saving the only livable planet we seem to have. In one part of my life, the dreaming world, we try to remember to vacuum the rugs and take out the tras