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“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

October 11, 2009 21 s t Annual National Coming Out Day & The National Equality March On Washington DC First Reading ~ from 1 Corinthians 13 The Gift of Love If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and i

Presented by Julie Caran August 30, 2009 Adapted from a 2001 service by Rev. Enid Virago and Julie Goldman Caran presented at First Unitarian Church of Richmond . Good morning. I’m Julie Caran, and I’ll be directing the Children’s Religious Education program at HUU this year. Those of you who are new to HUU and even some of the current members might be curious about what we teach the children in our church, being that we are a non-creedal congregation and do not require p