NEVER SAY DIE: THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE ABOUT DEATH Most of us have brushes with death when we’re young but in those years it is usually never more than a rare visitor, to be forgotten as quickly as possible. After 50 it becomes an acquaintance, sometimes a frequent one. Soon, for...

IS RELIGIOUS BELIEF RATIONAL? The question of the rationality of religious belief arises because of the difficulty in providing justification for religious beliefs. The problem goes back to at least Aquinas, who argued that faith was necessary, in addition to reason, to get us to certain truths. The issue was...

THE ART OF IMPERFECTION The quest for perfection is feverish and big business in a consumer society. A religious community is a place to share our imperfections; it is a community of shared brokenness. The Japanese have a term “wabi-sabi” – the marriage of wabi, meaning humble, and sabi, the...

KRAZY SEXY KOOL OR BIBLE TALES YOU DIDN’T LEARN IN SUNDAY SCHOOL The Bible is an ancient library of diverse literature including love stories abounding in sexual love, impassioned essays written by non-believers, and news stories that match today’s New York Times. Reading the Bible not as a faith document...

WHAT OUR EARLY ANCESTORS TELL US One aspect of spirituality is recognizing that we are part of something much bigger than ourselves; some refer to this as transcendence. One way to find transcendence is in the long sweep of human history. A long view of humanity, starting eight million years...

REVERSING DOOR COUNTY’S BRAIN DRAIN Door County is one of the most beautiful, beloved places in North America – so why is it losing all of its young people? How can the county reverse its aging trend? Myles Dannhausen Jr. will talk about the challenges the peninsula faces in attracting...

DO UU’S AGREE ON ANYTHING? Join us and lend your voice as we learn the answers through hymns and readings. Music: The UUFDC Choir, Cynthia Stiehl, conductor and Donna Russell, accompanist. Service Leader: Sheila Saperstein

JOHN COLTRANE AND THE TRULY RELIGIOUS LIFE The great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane said, “My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music.” James Galasinski, a Milwaukee based jazz musician and Unitarian Universalist, will explore the inspiration for Coltrane’s lifelong inner creative quest, his...

THE HIGGS BOSON AND YOU OR TALK NERDY TO ME On July 4, 2012, after a 45-year search, the world learned that the elusive Higgs Boson —the “god particle”— was discovered inside the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine ever built. Normally calm, quiet, under-stated scientists were shouting and cart-wheeling...

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW I spend a lot of time thinking about our nation’s political paralysis and what a democracy needs from its citizens and its elected officials. The bad news is that I recently discovered a new, serious problem that no one else seems to have noticed. The...