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A Service for All Ages Mingling of the Waters 2016

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by Rev. Kathleen Rolenz and Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg

The Mingling of the Waters Service is an annual tradition at the Fellowship. Bring water from a special place you’ve been this summer (including from your own backyard!) and we’ll combine it into a common bowl as a way to symbolize how our many streams combine to meet and merge as we begin the Fellowship year. This service  includes an All Ages Focus, plenty of special music, a flowing river and more!

Our Hearts’ Desire: A Service of Congregational Response

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by Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Rev. Dr. Wayne Arnason, and Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg

Who are we now? What do we want to become? What is our Heart’s Desire for our Fellowship? Half way through the tenure of the Transitional Consulting Ministry, Kathleen and Wayne have some observations to share, and possibilities to offer, in a mid-year report sermon inspired by our monthly theme. Equal time will be given in this unusual hour-and-a-half service to Congregational Response, in a cafe-style setting in the Sanctuary. The children and young people attending Religious Education will be involved in their own age appropriate workshop/programming at this time-they will be called back to the Sanctuary toward the end of the event in order to contribute their ideas to the larger group. Join us on Saturday or on Sunday (one service only at 10) for a milestone service on the road to our future.

Our Hearts Desire The State of the Fellowship 220212016

Sandpaper People

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by Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg

Some people just seem to rub us raw, maybe for an obvious reason or perhaps due to no discernible cause. What’s the best way to handle those to whom we seem to have instinctive resistance? Do we simply grit our teeth and try to survive them or is engagement possible? We might even find that difficult folks, sometimes known as sandpaper people, can be meaningful spiritual teachers.

Sandpaper People 1 30-31 16

Near the Earth

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by Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg

Oh no. Christmas is approaching. The season some call “Giftmas” can be a stressful time of expectations gone wild, with pressure to find deep meaning amid the commercialization. Yet our Unitarian ancestors have a surprising amount of wisdom to impart about this dilemma. Not only did they popularize Christmas as a religious holiday in this country, they also infused it with a Humanist sensibility that serves us well today.

Near the Earth 12 5-6 15

 

Kindred

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by Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg

We probably won’t ever time travel to a past era, but we each have secret stories and private histories that seem easiest to leave buried. Do they have to be confronted? What is to be gained if we do? Last spring, Leah invited anyone who was interested to join her in reading Kindred by Octavia Butler. Now, during our month of learning and worship about ancestry, the time is ripe to consider what we might learn from this tale of a contemporary black woman who, by the magic of science fiction, is transported to the world of her antebellum Southern ancestors through no desire of her own and at great personal cost. Whether you read the novel or not, join us as we consider the advantages and pitfalls of confronting our own past, present and future.

Kindred 11 7-8 15

Begin Again

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By Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg, opening words by Fellowship Member Jaclyn Kottman

Looking inward and letting go are universal themes that can interpreted in many ways. Two lifelong Jewish Unitarian Universalists (Rev. Leah and Fellowship member Jaclyn Kottman) invite you to explore these themes through a UU take on the Jewish High Holy Days traditions. This service is for people with Jewish backgrounds and non-Jews alike, and will end with sharing the sweet traditional snack of apples, honey, and challah (bread).

Begin Again 9 19-2015 (lhl)