The well-known Unitarian Universalist musician, Jim Scott, blesses us with his song May Your Life Be as a Song. (The refrain is hymn #1056). Let us lift up song as a metaphor for a life well lived. Rev. Jim Coakley’s UU roots are grounded in the remarkable story of the Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Appleton, […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was one of the major philosophes of the French Enlightenment along with Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot. He was also one of the great Romantic writers like Wordsworth and Coleridge in England and Lamartine and Hugo in France. In the last year of his life he wrote a masterpiece, The Reveries of a […]
It’s an old term — bearing your cross — and it alludes to the Christian myth of Jesus’ death. How could it possibly mean anything to us? …A meditation on sacrifice and commitment and story. Rev. Joan Shiels has a bunch of degrees in world religions. She has been bringing messages to us at UUFDC […]
As Unitarian Universalists, many of us struggle with the idea that Christ is the only path to the Sacred. Many of us come from Christian faith traditions and so the lessons and model of Christ is appealing and something we can embrace. For others it may seem limited and less inclusive and a reminder of […]
The things we love shape our lives. Rev. Ann has loved birding for 45 years. She will share insights from birding as they relate to the challenges of life today. Wisdom consists in understanding our motivations, our faults, our flights of greatness, the demands of our environment, and our place in the world. Rev. Ann […]
Jesus in his Aramaic language reveals the spiritual infrastructure of the Universe, and the path of healing our disconnect, our feeling alien on our own planet. James A. Roberts is a retired pastor. He is a co-founder of Manitoumie Center, 120 acres in Summit Wisconsin, and an activist with climate justice, and racial and interfaith […]
On the 20th we shared thoughts about how to engage in open-hearted conversations that invite healing of hearts and relationships. But what if you have been wounded so deeply by someone that you can’t bring yourself to commence a conversation, much less to wish them healing or feel compassion toward them? We invite you to […]
Theologian Mary Pellauer tells us, “If there is anything worth calling theology, it is listening to people’s stories – listening to them and honoring them, and cherishing them, and asking them to become even more brightly beautiful than they already are.” Join us on May 20th to hear Rev. Mathews’s experiences as a minister, chaplain, and friend as we explore of […]
The real honor comes with our acknowledgement of the enormous responsibility that mothering and fathering is. To offer new mothers blessings for the journey. To honor the mothers we have or had. To honor the mothering we do – or did. To honor all mothers who do the best job it is within their wisdom and power to do. To […]
Homo sapiens – (very clever, but seldom wise) has evolved with a Stone Age brain inherited from our ancestors on the African savannah. In the last 200 years we have discovered and exploited, in our cleverness, a one-time bonanza of cheap stored fossil energy upon which we have become almost totally dependent. We have succumbed […]