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By Linda Dove Sunday, October 5, 2014 It's pot-luck Sunday today when we give and receive food and share fellowship among our guests and ourselves. In my recent talk on Giving I said I would follow up sometime with the flip side of the coin, Receiving. Today's the day. First, I'll remark on the topic and then I'll focus on how Receiving fits into our UU journeys together, as I see it. Of course, we all sometimes receive from one another, whether gifts, services, caring ”or e

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. Delivered at Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalists, August 17, 2014 In each of the major northeastern Asian nations one finds three religions practices among others. One of these is the international religion of Buddhism, which originated in South Asia and entered China from Central Asia to the northwest, then to move on into Korea and then to Japan. Another is Confucianism, which originated in China and then also moved through Korea to Japan. Finally, e

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Andy Schmookler’s June 22 Message in Summary Andy Schmookler delivered the sermon at HUU on Sunday, June 22, 2014. The title of his talk was “What Liberal America Should Know about Evil. He says that America faces a crisis in which the stakes could not be higher. Both the right and the left play a role, he says, but the roles are very different. He drew upon a line from William Butler Yeats: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are filled with a passionate intens

Presented by: Linda Dove June 8, 2014 Good morning. Thank you to Steve for facilitating our service today. Our offertory says to me, . It evokes for me our 7th. UU principle, This morning I invite you to ponder with me on giving, service and stewardship. A complex topic; so just one or two aspects. I’m going to use the three terms interchangeably, though of course, they have different connotations. (Another time I’d like to explore the other side, the receiving side. But no t