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Eric LaFreniere addressed HUU members and friends gathered for the Stewardship Sunday luncheon. His comments follow. Greetings! In case you don’t know, my name is Eric LaFreniere, and I’m chair of your HUU Membership Committee. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on the idea of HUU membership as membership in a kind of extended family, with all the challenges, rewards – and food – that entails. Our HUU family encourages us to be our best selves: to adhere to core pri

Encountering Divinity Through Community (Or ¦. Is It The Other Way Around?) January 10, 2010 by Rev Emma Chattin Words of the Mystics - Thoughts for Reflection “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.“ ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273)~ “You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being

“The Certainty of Uncertainty : Do you welcome the uncertainties of life or do they just make you anxious?“ Sunday Service January 17, 2009 by Merle Wenger Chalice Lighting by theologian, Paul Lakeland from Paul Rasor’s Faith Without Certainty . The postmodern sensibility, let me suggest, is nonsequential, noneschatological, nonutopian, nonsystematic, nonfoundational and ultimately, nonpolitical. The postmodern human being wants a lot but expects a little. The emotional

I can hardly believe I have edited the newsletter for nine years! I started in the fall of 2000, about 10 years into both HUU’s and the “HUU Review’s existence (becoming, I think, the fourth editor). It’s been a good ride. Now, new roads beckon (as they should always do), and the time feels right for it to end. The capacity has developed for placing everything on our website that has gone in the print newsletter, and more: calendar, board and committee reports, special event

All Souls Day service by Chris Edwards Nov. 1, 2009: These few days are observed as Halloween, Samhain, All Souls Day, All Saints’ Day, Dia De Los Muertos ...days when nature slows down toward winter and legend says the veil between living and dead becomes most thin. I took our title from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse 5. The character Billy Pilgrim gets abducted and taken to the planet, Tralfamadore, where past, present and future are one. When Tralfamadorians e