FINDING DOOR COUNTY’S FOUNDING MOTHERS March is Women’s History Month, which often prompts reflections on famous women, but it is also a time to celebrate the lives of obscure women who were remarkable in their own right. Kärin Kopischke reflects on the inspiring Door County women she found while researching...

THE WONDERS AND DANGERS OF AN OPEN MIND It takes a rare venture of will and imagination and intelligence and courage to live with an open mind, to deliberately look for that which is difficult, dangerous, new or disturbing. Rilke, the poet, says life is a journey of being defeated...

DON’T THROW BABY JESUS OUT WITH THE BATH WATER: CHRISTIANITY WITHIN THE UU FAITH Many come to Unitarian Universalism from Christian backgrounds and sometimes struggle to reconcile their past heritage with their current faith journey. Jim will share his own experiences and those of several authors who found ways to...

POETRY OF THE EQUINOX We all know that the Vernal Equinox is the date when night and day are equal and that it marks the beginning of spring, but what does it actually mean to us? In this service we will hear poems by UU members and friends. Many of...

DISCERNING WHAT MATTERS A friend I saw at our 50th high school reunion told me she is a nihilist who tries to stay out of the way of everybody who is working pointlessly to make the world a better place. Our lives have taught us different truths. Cynthia, a member...

MINDFUL LOVING The poet Rilke wrote, ”For one human being to love another, this is the most difficult of all our tasks”. Part of the difficulty resides in the fact that most people feel they are not truly loveable as they are. The second fact is that people look for...

A NON-SCIENTIST LOOKS AT EVOLUTION A scientific understanding of evolution and the forces that drive it have become the foundation that underlies all thought about life on our planet. However, some people claim that these ideas are an affront to religious belief about the exceptional nature of mankind. In our...

FIVE WAYS TO FIND HAPPINESS Happiness for an hour, a day, a month, a year, a lifetime. The deeper meaning of simple steps to finding happiness. Dr. Bill McConkey, Political Science Professor at UW-Oshkosh, is an educator and social activist and the author of “Fighting the Merchants of Hate: The War for...

THE GREAT WAY OF YA-HEY Traditional Views of Experiential Acceptance include ‘Turn the other cheek’ (Jesus) and Stoic (Epictetus):  Select the worst seat at a gathering, without shade, in order to develop indifference to sun and heat.  Doc Heide will explore the concept of acceptance.  Accepting something does not mean...

THE NECESSITY OF DARKNESS Depression is something that is totally natural. In a recent book entitled “Manufacturing Depression” by Gary Greenberg, the author asks the question of whether we have reached a point where unhappiness is a form of inefficiency for which a drug can be prescribed. Depression is simply...