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Mother Jones Alive

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Mother Jones

Mother Jones

In 1902 she was “the most dangerous woman in America”.

Mary Harris Jones, commonly known as “Mother Jones”, was an Irish immigrant, a refugee of the “Great Famine”, a widow, a champion of the rights of children, and a tireless labor organizer in the coal fields of West Virginia and other places across the United States.

On Sunday, August 28, members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Charleston, together with members of West Fork Unitarian Universalists, will bring Mother Jones to life, up close and personal, through her own words and the words of others from her times. Special music will be provided by members of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Morgantown.

Please join us at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 28, at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave., in Downtown Clarksburg, WV, behind the Courthouse.

Children are welcome.

The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.

Map

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information

or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

Sunday August 7, 2016: Redemptive Art?

Robert
6 Turning Leaves

Prelude: Amarillo by Morning – George Strait

Welcome: We gather together to face ourselves honestly, By Philip Larson

We gather together to face ourselves honestly,
to forgive ourselves gently,
to love one another fervently.

Chalice lighting: For every time we make a mistake, By Maureen Killoran

For every time we make a mistake and we decide to start again:
We light this chalice.
For every time we are lonely and we let someone be our friend:
We light this chalice.
For every time we are disappointed and we choose to hope:
We light this chalice.

Song: Gathered Here In the Mystery of This Hour (3 times)

Gathered here in the mystery of this hour.
Gathered here in one strong body.
Gathered here in the struggle and the power.
Spirit draw near.

Principles of Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles:

  • The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
  • Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
  • Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
  • A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
  • The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
  • The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
  • Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Story for All Ages: from “Leaf by Niggle”, by J.R.R. Tolkien
(https://heroicjourneys.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/niggle.pdf)

{Today’s “story for all ages” was taken from a little-known story by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien says that he wrote it around 1938 or 1939, after he woke one morning “with it already in mind.” It was originally published in 1946 in the Dublin Review, then republished in 1964, joined with the essay “On Fairy-Stories”, in a small volume titled Tree and Leaf.}
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The Hysterical History of the Trojan War

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This summer take the whole family to Morgantown to see ancient history revised — Homer with a very modern voice.

M. T. Pockets Theatre presents The Hysterical History of the Trojan War, A Children’s Play, by D. M. Larson, directed by Nicki Davis, and featuring WFUU’s own Loki, Persephone, and Rhapsody Hall.

Heroes of the Trojan War

Homer would be amazed.

Schedule:

  • July 15 & 16 at 7 p.m.
  • ​July 17 at 2 p.m.
  • July 22 & 23 at 7 p.m.
  • ​July 24 at 2 p.m.

For more information — prices, times, locations, reservations — see M. T. Pockets Theatre’s announcement (CLICK HERE).

The Rustic Mechanicals present Twelfth Night, or, What You Will

Robert

The Rustic Mechanicals are taking William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will on the road in their “Midsummer Madness” tour of northern West Virginia.

Scene from Twelfth Night by Francis Wheatley

The Rustic Mechanicals, under the direction of Celi Oliveto, is the state’s only professional Shakepeare troupe, touring three shows annually. Their 2016 season continues with a performance at The High Gate Carriage House, Fairmont, on Friday, July 8, at 7:00 p.m., followed by a free performance at The Ferguson Memorial Park Performance Center, Shinnston, on Saturday, July 9, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.

Schedule:

  • Friday, July 8, The High Gate Carriage House in Fairmont
  • Saturday, July 9, Ferguson Memorial Park Performance Center in Shinnston
  • Sunday, July 10, M.T. Pockets Theatre Company at their new location on Parson’s Street in Morgantown
  • Saturday, July 16, Weirton Event Center in Weirton
  • Sunday, July 17, Toad Hall in Grafton
  • Saturday, July 23, Ferguson Memorial Park in Shinnston
  • Sunday, July 24, St. Albans City Park in St. Albans

All performances except July 8 and 10 are free to the public.

For more information — prices, times, locations, reservations — see the Vintage Theatre Company’s announcement (CLICK HERE).

Sunday June 12, 2016: Each Person is Important

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Each Person is Important

“Each Person is Important” — this Sunday the children of the congregation will conduct the service.

We would love to have you come worship with us.

Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse.

Our Religious Education/Life Long Learning Class will meet from 10 a.m. until 10:45. We will gather for coffee gathering before the service. More about us.

Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.

The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.

Map

The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information

or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

Sunday, May 22, 2016: Dissent, Heresy, and Innovation

Robert
Dissenter of Sidmouth

Prelude Galileo – Indigo Girls

Welcome The beauty of the whole – Meg Barnhouse

We gather to worship, our hearts alive with hope that here we will be truly seen, that here we will be welcomed into the garden of this community, where the simple and the elegant, the fluted and frilled, the shy and the dramatic complement one another and are treasured. May we know that here, each contributes in their way to the beauty of the whole. Come, let us worship together, all genders, sexualities, politics, clappers and non-clappers, progressive or conservative, may we root ourselves in the values of this faith: compassion and courage, transcendence, justice and transformation.

Chalice lighting In memory of all the flames – Amarette Callaway

In memory of all the flames that didn’t die—
in the midst of darkness,
in spite of the darkness,
we light this flame today.
“The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not overcome it.” (John 1:5 NRSV)

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