May 3rd,

2015

HUMAN RIGHTS AND

PROGRESSIVE ISLAM

Sermon by Ani

Zonneveld

Ani Zonneveld is the founder

and director of Muslims for Progressive Values.

She spoke on a side

panel to the United Nations Human Rights Council Session 26 on the topic of

Human Rights and Progressive Islam: Its Theological Application on Countering

“Blasphemy Laws,” the Support for Separation of Religion and State, Gender

Equality, and LGBTQI rights.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGd2sAhXQo

April 26, 2015FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM Chris Loken, Screenwriter of "Fighting for Freedom"  Chris Loken will describe the spiritual journey he and his family took as apple farmers in New York State and employers of immigrant farm workers. His family's lifeexperience led to Chris's writing, "Fighting for Freedom",which takes the viewer inside the com­plexitiesof illegal immigration and depicts the inter­twining of two families one, American; the other, Mexican.

April 19, 2015 IMAGES OF LETTING GO Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister  Buddhism says that grasping that which is inherently passing, is what keeps us locked into suffering.  The old aphorism is Pain is inevitable, but suffering is vol­untary.  pushing away?

EASTER; FLOWER COMMUNION SUNDAY

Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister

What Arose That Morning? The earliest Christians never heard

of the empty tomb.  What did they mean by

resurrection?

SHOULD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRAY?Rev. Gordon Clay BaileyUnitarian Universalist run the gamut from the most vocal atheist to the ardent theist with people all along the spectrum of belief.  This sermon will explore the age old practice of prayer and explore if it is a good idea for UU's to take up the practice of prayer.

March

15, 2015

THE

FIVE EXCELLENCES

Don Baird, Kung

Fu Grandmaster

For over 40

years, Don Baird, a Kung Fu Grandmaster, has encouraged the students in his

martial arts schools to "tickle their talents," not in such a way

that they become world champions or obtain some sort of community

prowess, but rather so that they can complete themselves over and over

throughout their lives.

 

Don believes

that in order for a person to really round themselves out and feel complete in

their lives, it is important for them to pursue not only God, but to pursue

themselves—with full effort.

March

8, 2015

WHAT

BRINGS US TOGETHER

Rev. Kenneth

Brown, UUA- PSWD District Executive

                                 

What is it

about a Unitarian Universalist congregation that brings us together in

community?   Why create a congregation that supports not

only our own quest for depth in our lives but also a place

of diversity and love?

February  22, 2015

NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP

Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister

 

Prayer, and other rituals of awareness.  What are we missing?

February 15, 2015

FACTS MATTER

Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister

                                   A sermon in honor of Darwin's birthday, another wrestling

with the conflict between science and religion. 

Touching on creationism, climate change, and other related issues

February 8, 2015

IMBOLG, HALFWAY BETWEEN WINTER SOLSTICE AND VERNAL EQUINOX

Rev. Mike Young, Interim Minister

 

Reconnecting to the wild, and what

is the world without us.  

 

The Emerson Choir, under the

direction of Gavin Thrasher, will sing “What the World Needs Now is Love,’

words by Hal David; music by Burt Bacharach.