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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

by James J. Geary December 7, 2008 Good morning Guess what! I've come to the conclusion that I'm a very old man. And lately I've been feeling my age. I read that the Czech novelist, Franz Kafka, wrote that the meaning of life is that it ends. Well, as I near that end, I've been looking back at the various periods of my life. The period of my grade school years, is one I wish I had the power of memory and of words to describe to you. It was a time you can't imagine, it wa

Presented by Beryl Lawson November 30, 2008 Uncle Murray was a hobo. Well that's not really true. He was a hobo but he wasn't really my uncle. He was my mother's boyfriend and I called him that even after they married and until he became Grandpa Murray when the kids were born. But he was a hobo during the depression. He rode the rails mostly in search of a spiritual home. He said he tried everything in his spiritual journey: Christian science, vegetarianism and who know