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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

Dale Enterprise School A talk presented to the Harrisonburg Unitarian-Universalist Church on the Occasion of the 100 th Anniversary of the Schoolhouse. Dale MacAllister July 19, 2009 Fifty-seven years ago last month, another centennial celebration was held in this very building. In June 1952 a large celebration was organized to mark 100 years since Walnut Grove School opened down the hill from here, just on the other side of Cooks Creek. The event was organized to celebr

Presented by Eric LaFreniere 6.21.09 Chalice Lighting: “Olympism exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind, and will“ Good Morning! And Happy Father's Day. Father's Day. I hope that a service on the relationship between sports and religion makes good sense on today in particular. Actually, I was inspired by an associate who, knowing that I'm not a huge fan of either popular religion or popular sports, sent me a youtube link to a commercial for