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May 5, 2024 – Rabbi Ellie Shemtov “Defining Antisemitism”

Posted by Tim on May 8, 2024

Since Oct. 7th there has been an alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents in this country and around the world. While criticizing Israel does not automatically translate as Antisemitism, I will explain when anti-Israel rhetoric becomes anti-Semitic.

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April 28, 2024 – Rev. Kathy Duhon – “Music Deeply Heard: The Spirit of Comfort and Joy”

Posted by Tim on May 1, 2024

Since poetry began, people have written rhymes to describe and celebrate (or not) the creatures with which we share the world. Members of our community will read poems about animals domestic and wild.

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April 7, 2024 – Rev. Calvin Dame – Abundant Life

Posted by Tim on April 13, 2024

Abundant Life – I’ve long been interested in a passage attributed to Jesus:  ‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”  What would an abundant life look like, and how do we get there?

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February 19 – Presidential Dreaming – Rev. Kathy Duhon What Could Have Been (and What Really Should Be)

Posted by Tim on February 20, 2023

We assume that our system for selecting a president is the only way, even though the process is fraught with problems which can reap results that are real humdingers!  Some Unitarians and Universalists from our past would have made excellent presidents – (I can dream) – so how can we ensure that this most powerful of jobs is filled by such people of competence, capability, and compassion?  Come explore ideas of justice and hope for our future through our own UU heroic history, and by some daring presidential dreaming.

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January 22, 2023 – Calvin Dame – “An Abundant Life”

Posted by Tim on January 22, 2023

Among my favorite phrases attributed to Jesus of Nazareth are, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”   What might that mean to us? 

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January 8 2023 – Phil Crossman – “Some Animals More Equal”: Attitudes Toward Equality and Inequality in American Life”

Posted by Tim on January 9, 2023

Americans have been thinking about, feeling about, and debating the subject of equality for as long as we can remember. Some inequalities disturb us to the core. Some inequalities we have been taught to celebrate. Some of the same are hardly noticed.  This talk looks at equality and inequality from a philosophical, religious, and historical perspective, and asks us all to consider just how our attitudes toward different forms of inequality have been shaped without leaving an inventory.

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October 9, 2022 Rev. Calvin Dame, A Spiritual Life

Posted by Tim on October 10, 2022

When I tell someone what my profession has been, it is not uncommon to hear people rush to inform me that they are spiritual but not religious.  After years and years as a minister, I find myself thinking that I am religious but not spiritual!

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September 25, 2022 25 – Rev. Kalen Fristad, Universalism: Past, Present and Powerful.

Posted by Tim on September 26, 2022

In addition to speaking on the history of universalism, I will be relating that the teaching of eternal damnation is not merely a harmless untruth that we might appropriately ignore and allow to stand, but it has serious consequences. It leads to the possibility, perhaps even the inevitability, of wars, bigotry, oppression and abuse. On the other hand, the teaching of universalism leads to equality, respect, love and dignity for all.
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