Roberta Kosse will once again present a lecture/performance for the UU community. The theme this year is: Words and Music - Beautiful Together! The program will demonstrate how music enhances the emotional and dramatic quality of language. Examples will include monologues from Shakepeare’s “Macbeth” and “Othello” and their counterparts in Giuseppi Verdi’s operas. Also included [...]
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What does it mean to be religious? My, what a question! I wonder what your answer would be. I am certain we would have as many different answers as there are people sitting in front of me. It is a question always on my mind—not urgently so, but at least, somewhere peripheral. [...]
The Place of the General Assembly in Unitarian Universalism
I have a dream…I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers………I have a dream today.
When I speak those words or read them somewhere, they ring gloriously in my head just as they [...]
The End Of Faith
Well, let’s see. Here we are assembled as a religious congregation. Yes, that’s right. A religious congregation. Some of us have difficulty with that term, I know, as with many other religious words. But last I looked, the Unitarian Universalist Association considers itself a religious movement. And I am [...]
Fellow UUer’s
Happy New Year! I hope that you all were able to take a moment and make your New Years resolutions. I hope even more that you are able to keep them. I have made a few myself. One is to make sure that I get this letter to Joanna on time each month. Another [...]
I recently came across a short poem by Matthew Arnold that seems perfect for New Year’s celebration. It is titled,
“Youth’s Agitations.”
“When I shall be divorced some 10 years hence, from this poor present self which I am now;When youth has done its tedious vain expense Of passions that forever ebb and flow.Shall I not joy [...]
There will be just one service at 11 am on New Year’s Day, January 1. Dirk Barrett will lead us down memory lane in our traditional “Memories” service that will celebrate the past year and years past. Bring your memories and participate in this morning of nostalgia. Happy New Year!
