Fear is a universal human emotion and it is necessary for survival. How does it hinder and/or help individuals and communities to flourish, grow, and face the “itches” under the skin? Click here to view the service. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
There is a certain nostalgia when we think about the idealized notion of home. What is the journey toward home and what does one find when we get there? How do we at QUUF begin a year of gathering together after so much time apart? Click here to view the service at 10am Sunday morning.
The provision of reproductive healthcare services at one end of the spectrum to support for end-of-life choices at the other end is increasingly under threat in our country. I will share stories from my life as a recipient and provider of healthcare and place them in the broader context of the current healthcare crisis. We … Continue reading My Secular, Universal Healthcare Journey from Birth to…
The history of abortion and Susan’s own experience in working in helping to provide abortion services for 25 years. Click here to view the service. Click here to read the readings and sermon.
Roseanna is an educator who taught in several states, as well as online, for a variety of ages and subject matter. Most recently she retired from the University of Georgia System as both faculty and administrator. She is also an author, poet, editor, activist, volunteer, and grandmother to 5.
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There is a time for a divisive spirit in a community. This spirit, paradoxically, may be a healing spirit, like a fever that causes a rise in temperature to burn out what no longer serves the body. Today we’ll explore fiery transformations and the creative possibilities they may offer. Victoria Poling is a Unitarian Universalist … Continue reading The Refining Fire of Transformation
The pandemic has increased the ACE (or Adverse Childhood Experience) score of all the children, some more than others. Kids growing up in bad times or bad situations or both wire differently than the ones who have a “Leave it Beaver” childhood. Is this a disaster or is there hope? As a person with a … Continue reading ACE Scores, Pandemics and Stubborn Hope
Why the mental health of Jefferson County young people is so important”. Cynthia is the founder of The Benji Project which teaches stress management and emotional resilience skills to teenagers in Jefferson County. Since its inception in 2018, the group has provided programs on mindfulness and self-compassion to more than 1,300 local young people, many … Continue reading Are the Kids All Right?
Join interfaith minister, earth lover, and longtime spiritual practitioner Katy Taylor to explore how we can participate in the healing of earth in the ways that we live our daily lives. Katy is a Sacred Musician, Spiritual & Life Coach, and Interfaith Minister who brings the practice of presence and mindfulness as best she can … Continue reading Becoming an Earth Being
In Nature, death is not a factor of special importance; it’s simply part of the turning wheel of Being as it rolls onward through time. But to us in our human world, death is a factor of huge significance. Taking my cue from neuro-anatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight, this sermon … Continue reading Death in Dual (and Dueling) Perspectives
