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by Michael Quayle February 6, 2011 For many of us the term theology holds a lot of negative baggage. There is a tendency to associate theology with a specific approach or doctrine. If we have rejected certain religious beliefs or teachings, there is a tendency to reject theology. Within the Unitarian-Universalist tradition there are as many Religious or spiritual beliefs as there are people in this room. Some of us have suffered oppression and even violence in the nam

Harvey Yoder has been a resident of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia since 1946 when his family moved from Kansas by train. Harvey is an ordained Mennonite minister and now have a seminary degree and a master's degree in counseling and since 1988 have been a marriage and family counselor and pastor of a local house church. Harvey has spoken here at HUU on a number of occasions. On Sunday, January 23rd, he presented a sermon Justice Gone Awry. The first part is presented b

Presented by Merle Wenger Sunday January 2, 2011 Chalice Lighting: “We Dreamers We dreamers-- architects of the soul take a lifetime, to meditate, sketch, create, like Corbusier or I M Pei; then choose the bricks and stones, to build a self that suits us well and makes others cock their heads and notice. From Affirmations for the Inner Child by Rokelle Lerner I weave the patterns of my life. I hold the threads, I choose the colors, I put them on the loom in the pattern

Sunday service by Chris Edwards, Nov. 14, 2010 Chalice Readings: “The progress of mankind onward and upward forever. – Unitarian Rev. James Freeman Clarke, 1885 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. – Ecclesiastes “Knowledge will lead to the absolute perfection of the human race. -Nicolas de Condorcet Trying to control the future Is like trying to take the master

November 7, 2010 One of the services that everyone seems to enjoy is one we present a couple of times a year. We ask for two volunteer participants who are willing to share their own spiritual journey with the Fellowship. This morning Rich Sider and Laura Dent each shared their own spiritual journey. Rich Sider When Judith asked me to participate in this service, my first thought was, I haven’t had much of a spiritual journey. A theological journey, yes, but a spiritual jou