Let’s give Rev. Jim a send-off filled with joy and gratitude! Message from Rev. Kelli Clement.

https://youtu.be/fFqXG3cI5wc

Join Rev. Kelli and members of the Climate Justice Team as we celebrate Earth Day. Plan to process to Thomas Lowry Park after Assembly.

https://youtu.be/f0gT75urzfA

One of the devices the great Octavia Butler uses in her fiction is awakening. A character awakes to an unexplainable new reality only to discover that it is like the old reality. Butler uses this device to discuss the Black experience in America and so much more. 

https://youtu.be/oqd3UpVd3_o

Text of Talk (PDF): Waking and Waking Again

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. 

https://youtu.be/35Xc3FZ6Obc

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

https://youtu.be/tXFsdzBllcU

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.

https://youtu.be/qbfzdNZrn2I

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.

https://youtu.be/rAbxZ8aRSV4

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.

https://youtu.be/84O5lNyWd2g

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… Read More »Make It New Everyday

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