Emanuel AME Church has faced many hardships over the years, but the church has persevered and thrived. May Emanuel’s faithful find the strength to make their way through the tragedy that has taken the lives of nine of their members, including their pastor. We share their grief, and we stand with them in love and solidarity.
— The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association
https://www.uua.org/news/press-release/church-shooting-charleston
The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, issued this statement following the news of the shooting in a church in Charleston, SC:
“News of last night’s shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, SC, fills me with a profound sadness. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims and to the entire Emanuel Church community.
Unitarian Universalists are sadly familiar with the tragedy of church shootings. When two congregants were killed and six wounded at our Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in 2008, the entire community reached out and embraced our congregation with love and support. We will pass that love along to the Emanuel Church community in any way we can.
Emanuel AME Church has faced many hardships over the years, but the church has persevered and thrived. May Emanuel’s faithful find the strength to make their way through the tragedy that has taken the lives of nine of their members, including their pastor. We share their grief, and we stand with them in love and solidarity.”
taken from uua.org
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~Namaste
Cricket
Edward Abbey
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey
A Kids’ Service, by members of the West Fork Unitarian Universalists.
We would love to have you come celebrate and worship with us. Please join us at the Progressive Women’s Association in downtown Clarksburg, WV on June 21, 2015 at 11 am.
Children are always welcome, especially for this service. This week’s service will focus on the children.
Please stay for coffee or tea after the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
I believe in the existence of a universe of suns and planets, among which there is one sun belonging to our planetary system; and that other suns, being more remote, are called stars; but that they are indeed suns to other planetary systems. I believe that the whole universe is NATURE, and that the word NATURE embraces the whole universe, and that God and Nature, so far as we can attach any rational idea to either, are perfectly synonymous terms. Hence I am not an Atheist, but a Pantheist; that is, instead of believing there is no God, I believe that in the abstract, all is God; and that all power that is, is in God, and that there is no power except that which proceeds from God. I believe that there can be no will or intelligence where there is no sense; and no sense where there are no organs of sense; and hence sense, will, and intelligence, is the effect, and not the cause, of organization. I believe in all that logically results from these premises, whether good, bad, or indifferent. Hence, I believe, that God is all in all; and that it is in God we live, move, and have our being; and that the whole duty of man consists in living as long as he can, and in promoting as much happiness as he can while he lives.
A Philosophical Creed
Written at Hebron, N.H., May 28, 1833,
By Abner Kneeland
On June 25 through 28, 2015, The Act 2 Theatre Company will present Set Me Free, two one-act plays directed by West Fork Unitarian Universalists’ own Cricket Hall.
Show dates:
Thursday-Saturday June 25-27 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday June 28 at 2:00 p.m.
at the
Friedlander’s Center (home of Starving Artists Studio)
354 West Main St
Clarksburg WV
Set Me Free
For more details, see the announcement on the Act 2 Theatre Company web site.
Don’t forget we are going to Valley Falls this Sunday. We will be there at 11am. We will have a small meditation, a picnic lunch, and then we will explore the falls.
Here are directions:
From the south-
As the first means of establishing influence over the young, I would say, you must love them.
http://callandresponse.blogs.uua.org/channing-is-still-relevant-on-the-noblest-work-on-earth/
So, to sum up, I’m saying the word God might be used to refer to “the source of meaningfulness”, “comprehension” and “knowledge of life”.
http://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2015/05/dead-deer-in-fallen-tree-meaning-what.html
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