Melissa Bartell | November 30, 2009
[Click image for Renewal Project website] Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow’s film from the 1st Tuesday Social Action Film Festival is RENEWAL, and it’s all about faith communities acting as stewards of the earth. From the official description Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting [...]
Category: First Tuesday Films, Green Sanctuary and Environmental Activism, Interactive Spirituality |
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Melissa Bartell | November 26, 2009
Whether you’re celebrating at home, with friends and family (biological or chosen), or going out somewhere fancy, we wish you a safe, happy holiday weekend. To celebrate the day, we’re sharing this video from UU Planet: After you’ve watched it, we hope you’ll come back here to the blog, and share some of the things [...]
Category: Common Theads, In the Media |
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Melissa Bartell | November 24, 2009
Bring new or gently used winter-wear to church. Help a child in Afghanistan! As many of you know, Jase is running a coat drive again this year (see him for details). Those of you who have already stripped your closets of winter coats may still wish to give to those in need, and Kimberlyn has [...]
Category: Interactive Spirituality, Social Justice |
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Scott Grey | November 20, 2009
Unitarian-Universalism is All We Teach Rev. Mark Walz preaches that above all else, the only thing that ultimately matters is love; love for the mystery and love for each other. This religion is important. This religion is all we teach. (15:03)
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Scott Grey | November 20, 2009
Ultimate Abundance, Ultimate Optimism – Rev. Mark Walz “This is a wondrous church… an amazing congregation and a wonderful time for us to be alive…” In this sermon based on the fifth smooth stone, Rev. Mark Walz discusses the human and divine resources which can help to bring about the changes we seek. These resources [...]
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jace_donaldson | November 19, 2009
by Susan Biali, MD Source: Psychology Today I frequently talk about relationships as one of the most important contributors to your health and happiness. And it’s not just your closest relationships – the number of social contacts you have in your daily life, period (including the bank teller and your neighbor down the street) are [...]
Category: Common Theads, Conversations, Interactive Spirituality, Meditation & Reflection |
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Tags: Conversations, gratitude, Interactive Spirituality, Meditation
Melissa Bartell | November 17, 2009
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia Support UUCOC! Get this from Amazon.com >> Those of you who attended church on Sunday the 15th know that we had a live reading of The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, instead of a video presentation, for our dramatic moment. The author credit was accidentally left [...]
Category: Reading Matters |
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Tags: Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Leo Buscaglia, Reading Matters, UUCOC Dramatic Moments