UUMAN Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North Church

"Peace, joy, love, tears, strength? It's all in there." After a summer's break, Rev. Dave Dunn and worship associate Mandi Winders lead this service to begin a new year at UUMAN, connecting one another through our annual Water Communion. Along with a wondering time story for all ages, you'll hear from four points on the compass as we recommit to ministry (thanks to our President, and current Program Council Chair), and charge the water vessel.

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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"Balancing or taming our hungers is necessary to reduce the drain we are having on this earth, and it puts Trickster's energy in its place."

Lay speaker Donna Melcher takes us on a deep dive into the role of the Trickster, who lives among us and has been here for as long as our species has walked the earth. While it's known by many names, its constant throughout history has been to appeal to our collective and individual hunger.

Musical accompaniment, sound effects, vocal trickery, and off-mic mischief by John Pruitt. Worship associate announcements by David Kroeber.

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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"People DO find us. I've always believed that if more people knew about UUMAN, our values, our unique brand of no-dogma spirituality, that many more would come and join us." Mike Chambers shares his vision of the Board President's role in accomplishing such worthy goals, reports relatively good news about UU membership trends, and talks about his past work as VP focusing on UUMAN safety and security policies. 

He also points us to some artistic endeavors to which we might wish to read, watch, and hear; and the correct pronunciation of the word "succinct."

All while bringing thirty years of experience as a technical writer to provide answers that are the embodiment of succinct.  

John Banville's Quirke novels:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirke_(series)

Mike's favorite British detective shows  
Endeavour: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/endeavour/#
  Dalgliesh: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/dalgliesh/s01 
  Midsomer Murders: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118401/ 

Josh Ritter's "All Some Kind of Dream":  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1rrETw5elw

(which, as Mike says, could be "a UU anthem.") 

Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOjKKj_TPo  
(performed as a duet at Mike and Donna's wedding, gets a mention near the end of the episode)

Lastly: Anyone know of a theater group looking for a Roswell, GA stage, with access to a dressing room (aka "the Choir room"), to rent on certain select evenings?  

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

This week's service focuses on the importance of friendship. Our lay speaker Megan Curtis advises us to expand our sense of "what is 'a friend'," and to "find friends in whatever form they come."

Worship associate: David Kroeber. Musical accompaniment and original music, including "Ascent," written and performed by John Pruitt, copyright 2023. All rights reserved.

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The first of a six-part series of interviews with the newly elected UUMAN Board, we start with Jennifer Phillippi, who discusses what the Treasurer does, and what her experience and background brings to the role. Plus musings on Unitarian Universalists' skepticism, enneagrams, and fire dancing.

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

Individual liberty is sometimes criticized as selfish, a failed doctrine, failing to prioritize community. However, the recent Supreme Court decision ending abortion as an individual right, now subject to legislative control, has led many of us to take a fresh look at the value of personal liberty.

As Unitarian Universalists, can we continue to side with love and protect individual liberty? Are these two critical components in conflict with one another?

"Freedom, Hope, and Courage", and all original incidental music, and piano accompaniment, by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2023. All rights reserved.

Intro and outro 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.

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"Even though changes are coming, we can find happiness together." So preaches Randy Blasch, whose life changes will be taking him away. Whether it's a major relocation, or additions (subtractions?) to UU principles and sources, or gun safety laws, changes are fraught with difficulty yet, in the words of David Bowie, we have to "turn to face the changes."
Plus morning announcements from Worship Associate Greg Waggoner.

"Because I'm Here," "Because of What You Say", and original interlude music by Music Director Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2023. 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.

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For this week's service, our lay speaker Dwana Bush channels David Whyte who said, "a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered.
 
And before you know it, you will find yourself actually shaping a different life, meeting different people, finding conversations that are leading you in those directions that you wouldn’t even have seen before.”

Original musical interludes performed and composed by Alex Pietsch. Copyright 2023. 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.

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What does it mean to identify as a Southern white person in today’s world? Especially if your family history goes way back, racism is not just prevalent, it is part of the song we have sung for centuries. Explore the spiritual and emotional journey of making reparations for slavery in an old Southern family and what it takes for us all to ‘sing a New song of the South’, for our sweet homes in the southland.

Accompanied by a symphony of songbirds, and original music by John Pruitt. Copyright 2023. All Rights Reserved.  

Service leaders Donna Melcher and John Pruitt; Worship Associate Sasha Greyenbuhl.

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

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Merri Beth Stevens intertwines personal stories with just enough science and technology to allow us to grasp "the immense flexibility of the father's brain." Listen and learn to better understand what fathers, and father figures, do to us fellow humans (and in MB's case, how they compel us to take risks.)
Along with a road trip with a Stuckey's pecan log roll reward, instructions on how to play "Quaker", and what a father's faults and failures mean to us now.
Plus the greetings, readings, and skilled worship coordination from Greg Waggoner who had to work without a net (aka a printed "Order of Worship") this week.
All piano accompaniment by Alex Pietsch. Original music copyright 2023. 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.

UUMAN - Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North