Fellow UU’ers
Well, we’ve done it, we started another church year and things are moving along at a frantic pace. Committees are meeting, the lunchtime feeding program is cooking, RE is educating, Jim is preaching and the Board is boarding (or something like that). It is fascinating how we take the summer off and come back [...]
If you read last month’s Newsletter, you will recall along with my long essay “The Minister’s Vision,” I also emphasized the importance of music in our congregational life. I don’t know if you have been moved as much as I by the music presented to us in our Sunday services since we have resumed them [...]
Spiritus Mundi (Based on Yeats’ poem, The Second Coming.) The sermon evolved this way: After last Sunday’s sermon, I remained concerned about the downside of spirituality–that it can become vain and self-serving. Then, on Monday, I had a vigorous conversation with a colleague/friend( psychotherapist in my office suite) about the sad state of the world and [...]
“Jim, how do we respond to the world? What can we do that will make a difference? Can we make a difference?” These are the questions that a colleague of mine and I struggled with a few days ago. My friend and colleague, Herb, is a psychologist and shares an office next [...]
Theme to be announced.
Good morning!
We gather in this place this day To let silence heal our spirits, To let community enclose us in warmth, To let vision change our hearts.
Come, let us worship together.
I am speaking about spirituality today for a couple of reasons. First, because we are encouraging you to sign-up for Community Circles, a program [...]
Welcome back service.
Sermon to be announced.
Good morning!We come together once again, at the end of a summer reprieve,To be reminded of our highest values,To be inspired to bring our giftsOf love and serviceTo the altar of humanity.And to know once again that we are not isolated beingsBut connected to others, to othersIn this FellowshipIn the larger community of Croton,In our [...]
The final lay led summer service for the UUBCO Fellowship will take place at 9 am on Sunday, September 4. Phyllis Tortora will lead a program “Reflections of Religious Practice in Dress.” Participants will reflect on experiences with religions that they may have had in which dress played a part and also look at [...]
