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Responses to the Sermon on Evolution: Perpetual Easter. Looking for peoples' responses to the sermon but also to the topic of Evolution. What does it mean to you?

by Cheryl Talley, Ph.D. April 5, 2009 I began my 50 week negativity fast on Monday, November 26, 2007 as an act of desperation. The fast from all news media was an alternative plan from abstaining from all food for a year...which had been a very fleeting thought. I remembered the benefit of fasting from food from back in my early thirties. Back then I had been in a church that advocated periodic fasting as part of a spiritual discipline. The longest period I had fasted was

March 15, 2009 By Julie Caran When Kevin and I came to Harrisonburg in 2002 for his interview with the JMU chemistry department, one of my first tasks was to look at the church listings in the local yellow pages. Because I was leaving my position as a Director of Religious Education at another church in order to accompany him on his career path, he knew there was one solid condition to my moving: there had to be a UU church wherever we relocated. So while Kevin interview

March 8, 2009 by Rev. Emma Chattin First Reading ~ from Matthew 25:29 “To those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them.“ Second Reading ~ from “On Giving”, in “The Prophet”, by Kahlil Gibran Then said a rich man, “Speak to us of Giving." And he answered: You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. Presented February 1, 2009 Economics as a Faith System Economics is derived from moral philosophy. This is how St. Thomas Aquinas viewed in the 1200s when he introduced Aristotle's economic analysis into Roman Catholic Church doctrine in a society dominated by the Church. Aquinas reconciled the Church with Aristotle and his golden mean, a view of compromise as good in a complicated world in contrast with the purism and extremism of Platonic ideali