Category: Social Justice

Please join us on Sunday (24 September 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

On this Sunday we begin reading the UUA Common Read for 2023 — On Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Damya Ruttenberg.

The book looks back to the 12th Century Jewish philosopher Maimonides as a guide to an authentic process for offering a real apology and making amends.

This Sunday we will be discussing Chapter 1 (“A Repentance Overview” –pages 21-46).

Our adult religious education class will be taking a break this Sunday (17 September 2023) due to the Artist Sunday worship service celebrating the arts.

This class will resume next Sunday (24 September 2023).

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

On this Sunday we begin reading the UUA Common Read for 2023 — On Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Damya Ruttenberg.

The book looks back to the 12th Century Jewish philosopher Maimonides as a guide to an authentic process for offering a real apology and making amends.

On 24 September 2023 we will be discussing Chapter 1 (“A Repentance Overview” — pages 21-46).

For this Sunday (10 September 2023), our children (Pre-K thru Grade 5) will be using a program adapted from Moral Tales (a Tapestry of Faith curriculum by Alice Anacheka Nasemann and Elisa Davy Pearmain).

The children will use stories as a way of learning to make choices in accordance with their Unitarian Universalist beliefs and values.

For this Sunday (10 September 2023), our middle and high school youth will experience our 8 principles through artistic expression. of their choosing — photography, other visual art media, or creative writing.

Their works will be featured in an exhibition at the end of the curriculum.

The All8 curriculum is the creation of Jil Novenski (Director of Religious Education — Community Unitarian Universalist Church of New York City) who has generously shared it with her colleagues.

Please join us on Sunday (10 September 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

On this Sunday we begin reading the UUA Common Read for 2023 — On Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Damya Ruttenberg.

The book looks back to the 12th Century Jewish philosopher Maimonides as a guide to an authentic process for offering a real apology and making amends.

For this week we are reading the Author’s Note and the Introduction.

Please join us on Sunday (3 September 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

We will be discussing an article by Washington Post columnist Christine Emba — “Men Are Lost: Here’s a Map Out of the Wilderness.”

Christine Emba expresses concern for young men and boys who seem increasingly influenced by the extreme right wing “manosphere” and wonders about how we define “good masculinity” in a world of changing gender roles.  Join us.

Please join us on Sunday (27 August 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

We will cover “The Colfax Massacre:  The Beginning of the End of Reconstruction.”

We will view and discuss video from a recent meeting of Together Louisiana’s Rapid Response where this group is reading Redemption:  The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann.

The prologue of the book tells the story of the Colfax Massacre (erroneously called the Colfax Riot in the white Southern retelling of the story) depicted in the monuments that were erected in the area.

The video features Rev. Avery Hamilton who grew up in Colfax but knew nothing of the true story of the massacre until well into adulthood when he learned the story of his own ancestor who was one of the first to die in the massacre.

We will hear the story of how Rev. Hamilton not only learned his own family’s story but met a descendant of the perpetrators of the massacre who has worked with him to get the true story out and to build a more appropriate monument to those who died.

Please join us on Sunday (20 August 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

As we gather input and prepare for our next multi-session unit, we are taking a few Sundays for some 1-session and 2-session topics that have interested some of our members.

This Sunday, we will view and discuss a video interview with author Matthew Desmond whose research and personal experience of poverty has sought to untangle the reasons why so many Americans are struggling.