This week's service focuses on UU-affiliated Mountain Retreat and Learning Center, which has been in operation since 1979. Steph Anderson's sermon (yes, it IS a sermon! If you're at the pulpit on Sunday morning, you're delivering a sermon) it serves as an explainer to us Roswell congregants. While theirs is not a church home as such, it is a place people gather to call home if only for a few days, in a natural setting.

"Mama Maydell" and "You Chose Me" composed and performed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.

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We hear from the Religious Exploration staff and, of course, from the students themselves, including those commenting on a "new adventure" about to be undertaken by one of their own.

"A New Day" and “Circle of the Children” composed and performed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.
Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org UUMAN is a 501(c)3 organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Your contribution is deductible to the full extent provided by law. https://www.uuman.org/donate/

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Our Rev. Kim Palmer, who will be departing these environs in a rather disturbingly short amount of time, explains that while transitions afford growth and opportunity, they can also be tinged with sadness and loss.

"Since You've Been Gone," "When You're Not Here", and "Emptiness" composed and performed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

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Join UUMAN's own Gus Hadorn as he leads our annual Earth Day service. Learn how caterpillars may have more in common with our kids than you might think.

"Healing Vibrations for Our Earth" and "Spirit of the Four Elements" composed and performed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.
Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

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Duncan Teague, our guest in the pulpit, recommends we savor a jelly donut while considering the wisdom of Albert Camus: "Eternity was here, while I was waiting on it."
The sabbatical is similar to a school's spring break, but we often miss the fact that not only is the minister gone to explore, like Rev. Dave Dunn, but also the congregation has an opportunity to also explore collectively, how we want our ministry to look and feel while the leader is away.

"Prelude" composed and performed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.
Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.
UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

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"Letting go of our preconceived objections." A return to an attitude of freshness, openness, and intimacy with what is arising in this present moment’s experience,

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.
UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

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"Where flowers bloom, so does hope." Our lay speaker, UUMAN member Debra Burrell, uses Lady Bird Johnson's inspirational words to inform this service. It's a ritual with a long and courageous history. Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian martyr Norbert Čapek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Flower Ceremony was introduced to the United States by Rev. Mája Čapek, Norbert's widow.  

"Lily and Lilacs" and "Nature's Blessings" composed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

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We shouldn't HAVE to affirm our own worth, but given the silos we're forced into as citizen-consumers, sometimes it's something to consider. Our guest preacher, Lylah Lockridge, offers the example of airline perk programs as emblematic of the perceived social class we're assigned. Or, as she puts it, "Those who are unable or unwilling to pay a higher price receive no perks....If you are the last to board, you are received like the closing credits in a sad movie."

(Also, a "little secret." Belief in our inherent worth and dignity IS heaven.)

There's also the latest announcements and good news from Stewardship.

"Gorgeous Blue Sky" and "Nature's Blessings" composed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

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This year's annual Youth Service includes musings on leadership (and what goes with it), why we light this chalice (three guesses!), and how the youth of today are "taking on the fossils that guide society."

All piano accompaniment and musical direction by Alex Pietsch.

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

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Our guest minister, the Reverend Jonathan Rogers, guides us through our process of formally committing ourselves to "dismantle racism in our selves and in our institutions." His sermon traces racism's history on our continent, and how we have historically enshrined it in our governing documents and practices, can give us some clues about its origins and causes.

But before that, you'll hear from a newly-minted member (albeit long-ish-time attendee and volunteer!) on the importance of pledging; plus our readings authored by Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt and Andrea Hawkins-Kamper.

"First Sight of Spring" and "Overcoming" composed and performed by Music Director Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.

Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.

UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.org

Unitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.org

UUMAN is a 501(c)3 organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Your contribution is deductible to the full extent provided by law.

https://www.uuman.org/donate/

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