A beautiful reflection by Rev. Connie Simon as featured on Braver/Wiser. How do you kindle the Spirit?
#CenteringUUVoicesofColor
Service for August 25, 2019, updated
In case you missed us on Sunday, the full service — words and music — has been posted. You can see it all at westforkuu.org/2019/08/19/sunday-august-25-2019-wealth-and-philanthropy/
Sunday, September 1, 2019: West Virginia Wildlife Center, French Creek
Elk at French Creek
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. For this year’s fourth outing, we will gather Sunday, September 1, at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center at French Creek at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and visiting the animals.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
For a map, please use this link: https://goo.gl/maps/2DgtJDkMYHN2
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or to carpool, or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
The Opposite of Connection
Rather, the people who are the most happy the most often are those who are pursuing a sense of meaning in their lives, and the author unpacks that experience as having four main pillars. The first of these is a sense of belonging, and I’ll come back to that in a moment, in the light of some other research I want to tell you about. The second pillar is purpose; the third is transcendence, and the fourth is story-telling, or what I would call narrative coherence. Each one of these four pillars is at the heart of what any competent church is meant to do; these are the functions that religious community ought to be providing for its members, regardless of what theology it represents. This is why church is good for you, because it is helpful to have a committed purpose, a practice of transcendence, a framing narrative, and a sense of belonging in community.
A sermon (text here) by Rev. Kendyl Gibbons, All Souls Kansas City
Sunday, August 25, 2019: Wealth and Philanthropy
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: … — the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
— from “The Gospel of Wealth”, 1889, by Andrew Carnegie.
Prelude: City of New Orleans — Steve Goodman
“No pull quotes – this piece needs to be read in full.
Thank you Bart Frost for all your work for the association, and this brilliant perspective on how we can shape the future of this faith tradition.” – from the UUA’s Facebook in reference to the article below.
Sunday, August 18, 2019: Drifting as a Spiritual Practice
There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man…..
How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself (Leo Tolstoy “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets, trans. by Aylmer Maude).
We would love to have you come worship with us.
This Sunday, we will look at the spiritual practice of drifting. “It’s not a stroll in the park, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. ‘Drifts’ are for opening up the world, clearing eyes and peeling away the layers of spectacle, deception and that strange “hiddenness in plain sight” that coats the everyday.” You may want to read this starter kit.
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. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
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
The Corrosive and Malignant Danger of Remaining Silent About Racism
This was shared on the UUA’s facebook page this morning.
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Corrosive and Malignant Danger of Remaining Silent About Racism
Sunday, August 11, 2019: Audra State Park
- Swimming at Audra
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. Note that for this year’s third outing, we have moved the event to the second Sunday in August. We will gather on Sunday, August 11, at Audra State Park at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and walking or swimming in the Middle Fork River.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
For a map, please use this link: https://goo.gl/maps/dQZFRS2idTJ2
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or to carpool, or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, August 4, 2012
“The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.”
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“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― V for Vendetta
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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Join us for Worship: This Sunday, Cricket Hall will explore the fifth principle “The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large”
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. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
We would love to have you come worship with 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.
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
Picture Credit to the UUA.
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