It appears that ranking things comes naturally. Good. Better. Best. When learning a language, words for ranking are some of the first we learn. Ranking, however, artificially creates a better than rather than a different from.  Text of Talk (PDF): Wake, Woke, Enlightened

During the pandemic many have felt a strange sense of time. Faster? Slower? Usually both. Our perceptions of time are not merely an annoyance. The perception of time is a key to how consciousness works. A talk from David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): Time is the Trickster

“Committing to the Seasons and the Change” with Rev. Dr. David Breeden. Human religions have marked the seasons most likely since the beginning of human consciousness. But it isn’t the seasons that frighten us so much as the change. Text of Talk (PDF): Committing to the Seasons and the Change

“Committing to the Seasons and the Change” with Rev. Dr. David Breeden. Human religions have marked the seasons most likely since the beginning of human consciousness. But it isn’t the seasons that frighten us so much as the change. Text of Talk (PDF) Committing to the Seasons and the Change

In a world full of daunting challenges, it can be grounding to remember to what and to whom we are most committed – and why. Join us for Rev. Jim’s second-to-last talk at FUS. Text of Talk (PDF): Whose Are We?

A talk from Rev. Dr. David Breeden: The Modernist poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) wrote those words as an admonishment to his generation of writers to be “modern.” It’s not bad advice for living a life, either, lest, as Pound wrote, “And life slips by like a field mouse / Not shaking the grass.” Text of […]

Revs. David & Kelli will share the talk to discuss how we draw the circle wider still, both within and beyond our congregation.

Revs. David & Kelli will share the talk to discuss how we draw the circle wider still, both within and beyond our congregation.

The video “Baby Shark” is the first on YouTube to cross the ten billion views milestone. Ten billion? We are living in what the World Health Organization terms an “Infodemic.” Information is everywhere. How much of it can one person absorb? How can we avoid the “noise”? Text of talk (PDF): Signal and Noise

Text of talk (PDF): The Venn Diagrams of Community Most individuals belong to more than one kind of community, with each of us at the center of our very own Venn diagram. But what might we do about all the circles that don’t overlap, and the forces that keep people apart?