Month: June 2015

Young People and Church

CZ

Often we get so excited when we see young adults at services we forget that they are putting out feelers and we might need to be on our better behavior. Here are some things to say to fresh faces during coffee hour.

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~Namaste
Cricket

Rev. Dr. Cornel West speaks at the UUA General Assembly

CZ

Every year at the Unitarian Universalist Association there is a Ware speaker. The speaker was originally a gift from the Ware family and this goes back all the way to 1922. History of the Ware Lecture

This year the speaker was the Rev. Dr. Cornel West. Here is a video from the evening. It includes a small slideshow and the Evening Sing. Rev. West’s speech begins at 42 min. Hope you enjoy.

https://youtu.be/E3iv4W_ccio

~Namaste
Cricket

Historic day for Equality

CZ

Today is an historic day. As a friend said,  “This is a once in a lifetime thing for most activists. We don’t get to WIN. Most of the time, we see incremental progress in our lifetimes, but it is rare to get a big win like this.”

UUA President Peter Morales draped the General Assembly podium with a rainbow flag and invited same-sex couples to join him on the stage this morning to celebrate the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision. An ecstatic crowd wept, cheered, and then sang “We Are Standing on the Side of Love.”

(Photograph © Christopher L. Walton/UUA)podiumdrape

Have a beautiful Rainbow day!

~Namaste

Cricket

Chance to learn about Climate Justice

CZ

As Unitarian Universalists we believe in the interdependent web of all life. This means taking care of each other, but it also means taking care of out planet. 
The UU College of Social Justice is hosting the Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s workshop.  West Virginia ‘ s own Tim deChristopher will be there during this five day intensive in Chicago. 
For more information – http://uucsj.org/grow/

Have a Blessed day!

~Cricket

A Blessed World Humanist Day to You

LdeG

Many of us, like this UU minister, are a complicated mix of beliefs and values we cherish from a Christian or Jewish upbringing, the mystic thread of seeing beyond the everyday surface of things that runs through medieval and some present Christianity, Judaism, Zen, Sufism, and nearly all religions, insights from pagans and nature religions, and the reason of humanism and science.

A Blessed World Humanist Day to You!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkey And mind/2015/06/and-a-blessed-world-humanist-day-to-you.html

Don’t Forget …

CZ

We will have a service tomorrow June 21, 2015 at the Uptown event center in Clarksburg, WV.

The children of the church will be leading us in a service about Rainbows and what they mean to us.

Come join us at 11 o’clock.  There will be a coffee hour afterward.  See you there!

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~Namaste

Cricket