Guest Blog by Nan Toby Tyrrell One of the joys of being Jewish is the opportunity to stop my ordinary life on Friday at sunset and light two white Sabbath candles, repeat the prayers, and let go of the present anxieties and everyday concerns. Instead I turn my soul, heart, and mind to a higher … Continue reading Reflections on the Sabbath on the Cusp of Hanukah
Guest Blog by Kirit Bhansali Kate’s Sermon on October 25, 2020, inspired me to think more about letting go. When I asked myself, what is preventing me to let go, the answer was ego. So I wrote to Kate if she would do a sermon on Ego versus Self-esteem. She asked me to write a … Continue reading Ego versus Self Esteem
Guest Blog by the Nominating Committee In an inspiring Sunday service, QUUF member Brian Rogers contrasted authoritarian and adaptive leadership. He said, “I think of a leader not as a person at the head of a marching column of people following them. Rather, a leader is more like the conductor in front of an orchestra. … Continue reading ‘Tis the Season to Begin Thinking About Leadership Recruitment
Guest Blog by Native Connections Action Group The theme for this week is “by our truth you shall know us.” Also, this week is Indigenous Peoples Day. It is a day to honor those who have been on this land “since time immemorial.” Honoring involves understanding the truth about the history of indigenous people and … Continue reading číčməhán Trail Benches
Guest Blog by Kathy Stevenson Unitarian Universalists are known to be thoughtful, creative and interested in making improvements in ourselves and the world around us. We believe in honesty and expressing our feelings. These are positive traits. However, we can be unnecessarily hurtful if our ideas for improvement and our expression of honest emotions are … Continue reading To Be Honest AND Kind
Guest Blog by Penny Ridderbusch I once heard it said that to find out what’s truly important in one’s life, look at two things – one’s calendar and one’s checkbook. At the time I heard this, I was doing a lot of volunteering for a non-profit organization that had a profound impact on my life. … Continue reading What’s Truly Important
Guest Blog by Virginia Nixon With the COVID-19 pandemic also comes a pandemic of challenges. However, even as change is all around and we are constructing a whole new way of being in our QUUF Fellowship, some things do not change. Just as we have all adjusted to other losses and changes in our lives, … Continue reading ‘Tis a Season of Changes!
Guest Blog by Gary Nelson A common-sense view of our own cognition is that we see things as they actually are unless we are hallucinating – our cognition is veridical (the truth). Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says NO, our cognition is not veridical, it is optimized by evolution to maximize our chances of staying alive … Continue reading What is a Cognitive Bias, Anyway?
Our covenant statement carries deep meaning for me. It was crafted as the distillation of a group effort in 1997 to express an agreed understanding of our intentions and ideals as we settled into our first building and strengthened our identity as a liberal religious community. QUUF’s subsequent growth and outreach within our community and the broader world have been a heartening tribute to those stated ideals – to love, to share and to serve in myriad ways.
Guest Blog by Frances Loubere I had not imagined, when I cautiously agreed to be a QUUF Board nominee, that I’d begin my tenure as a small square on a Zoom screen, in a time-warped 2020, with depleted QUUF staff and budget, and that these Zoom meetings would continue into a fraught and surreal future. … Continue reading Our Transforming World!
