Great Expectations This has been an amazing year at UUCOC with visits from Rev. Dr. Thandeka and UUA President Rev. Peter Morales. What have we learned? They expect great things from us this coming year, but what do we expect from ourselves? – Rev. Mark Walz preached the sermon, asked the questions and made a [...]
Reposted from my personal blog by request. Please note: during the month of December, I’m participating in a project called Holidailies, where bloggers commit to daily posts from St. Nicholas Day (12/6) through Epiphany (1/6). References to prompts are related to this project. I don’t blog about church very often, because I think faith is [...]
Last Sunday we distributed collection boxes for Guest at Your Table (additional boxes are in the pass-through on the table). Money collected goes to doing the work of Unitarian Universalists nationally and internationally. A sampling of people helped by these donations are: families rebuilding their homes and communities having returned to their villages in Uganda [...]
…consider the meditation on breathing that we sang together, after the Joys and Sorrows this morning. We shared silence that came to us, beyond the meaning of the words that we were saying…
The word prayer can be problematic to many of us in the Unitarian Universalist faith. Some of us don’t put much stock in prayer and honestly believe that we don’t in fact pray.
Glorian asked me to let you all know about Monday night’s “A Night for Peace” concert by the Turtle Creek Chorale. Find out more by clicking the image above or going here: http://www.turtlecreek.org/concerts/tickets/index.php?tktid=PIH. Here’s the description from the Turtle Creek Chorale’s website: Our Partners In Harmony program began seven years ago. Its mission is to [...]
A call to action: Recently we have seen a lot about gay teen suicides. Students who are bullied by their peers but no one stood up for. Come stand up for the kids, teens and young adults. Join the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance along with other GLBT groups and many straight allies in a [...]
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