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Many of you know that our intrepid webmaster, Scott, posts the audio recordings of our Sunday services on the UUCOC website, but if you haven’t looked at the “Listen to our Services” posts, you may not realize the main site is NOT the only way to hear them. Each week, once Scott has cleaned up the [...] Rev. Mark Walz starts a series of sermons on the three religions which ground our sacred journey. We begin with Unitarianism. My mind perched on top of my head like a spider monkey and thought of more things that could go wrong at dinner, and whose fault those things would be. I tried to drop my attention from my head to my heart, which is actually an ascension of sorts. … Still, my mind chattered on, [...] I’ve Been to the Mountain – Part II – Rev. Mark Walz “came down from the mountain” after the Dwight Brown Leadership Experience 2009 and continues his discussion of the growth and future of our congregation. (And the parable of the “Bad Cookie”)
Buffalo Gal I first heard about Laura Pedersen’s memoir Buffalo Gal when I was browsing UU World a week or so ago. I was caught by her sense of humor and the fact that she’s roughly my contemporary (five years older, but we watched the same TV shows). I mean, how often [...] Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for [...] Diversity and Vision – Rev. Mark Walz “came down from the mountain” after the Dwight Brown Leadership Experience 2009 last week and discusses congregational diversity and our future.  Diversity and Vision - or - I Came Down From the Mountain [28:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (57)It’s been all over sites like UU World, but in case you hadn’t heard, First Unitarian of Charleston was featured in the July 12th episode of the Lifetime TV show Army Wives. In the episode, a woman about to re-deploy and her husband, a psychiatrist, choose the UU church to host their newborn daughter’s “welcome to [...] He isn’t a UU, but since the mainstream media in the USA isn’t carrying this story (I originally saw it on Twitter, when a British friend of mine shared a link from The Guardian), I thought it was still appropriate to share here. In an article that ran on July 15th in The Age, an [...] |
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