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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

Once in a while a UU says they have trouble with the first UU Principle: “The inherent worth and dignity of every person. I heard that more than once this past Sunday. A scene from the 1980s film “Ironweed which somehow got burned into my memory seems to illustrate that principle. A homeless, very drunken woman has frozen to death on the sidewalk in front of a shelter where she had been turned away. Other homeless people find her. Standing in the bitter cold, they bestow a

July 25, 2010 GLBTIQQ PRIDE SUNDAY by Rev. Emma Chattin Proud of What? ~ Bringing The Other Home How do we celebrate our differences? Perhaps we begin by celebrating that we are different. First Reading ~ Luke 19 : 1-9 Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but he was too short to see over the crowd. So he ran ah