December 4, 2022
An experiment! What would it be like to worship without an Order of Service printed out? We give it a try…
Speaker: Rev. Lara Hoke
“Counting Our Blessings” with Cornbread & Cider Communion
November 20, 2022
- Bill Duston
- Cindy Malley
- David Gaynor
- Monica Pilman
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Cornbread Communion
- gratitude
- thanksgiving
- Time for All Ages
An annual tradition! The FCU Deacons serve communion, and we give thanks. Wonderful guest musicians, including Carolyn McCreary, Emma Bruns Riffelmacher, Eric Semple, Sara Weeks, and Charlie Weeks.
“The Groovy, Far-Out Spirituality of the 1960s”
November 13, 2022
- Janet Adachi
- Monica Pilman
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Spirituality of the Decades
- 1960s
- spirituality
- Time for All Ages
We carry on with the second of our “Spirituality of the Decades” series with a look at the 1960s. Great music, of course!
“Western Psychology and Eastern Religion”
November 6, 2022
- Bill Duston
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Toward a Psychology of Being
- Human Potential Movement
- psychology
- Time for All Ages
- Transpersonal Psychology
An auction-sermon topic! Interesting stuff, to me.
“Guns and the Culture of Violence”
October 23, 2022
I discuss guns and the culture of violence in the USA in light of Littleton’s own gun issue.
“Bobby Socks and the Bomb: The Spirituality of the 1950s”
October 16, 2022
The first in my series on the spirituality of modern US decades; I consider the spiritual lessons of the 1950s. Unfortunately, the first 28 minutes of the video were lost. The video starts at the very end of the choir’s anthem. Don’t miss the postlude!
“The Spirituality of Land Acknowledgement”
October 9, 2022
- Cindy Malley
- Lorinda Morimoto
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- We All Go Back to the Land: The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements
- American Indian
- anti-racism
- Indigenous Peoples' Day
- Native American
- Time for All Ages
- white supremacy culture
For Indigenous Peoples Day Sunday, I preached on land acknowledgement and the reality that our church is on the historical lands of the Nashobah Praying Indians. Lorinda Morimoto also shared her own perspective.
“Behold, I’m Doing a New Thing”
October 2, 2022
I considered change and impermanence, and was bold (or foolhardy) enough to end with a reworking of Isaiah 43:18-19, which was the inspiration for the sermon title, of course.
“Blowing Our Own Horn: A UU Appreciation of Rosh Hashanah”
September 25, 2022
I explored the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, and attempted to demonstrate some shofar blasts and their meanings. We had some difficulty with sound in this video.
“21st Century Transcendentalism”
September 18, 2022
- Patti Sardella
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Emerson's Essays
- Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
- Spiritual Pilgrim: Awakening Journeys of a 21st Century Transcendentalist
- The Transcendentalists and Their World
- Theodore Parker Sermons
- Transcendentalism Yesterday and Today
- Walden
- Advocates
- Transcendentalism
- Unitarian Universalism
I have been reading a lot about Transcendentalism lately. It occurred to me… we are Transcendentalists today! Upon reading further, other UUs agree (notably retired UU ministers Rev. Barry Andrews and Rev. Jim Sherblom, both of whose books confirmed many of the thoughts I have been having, including even Peter Mayer’s “Holy Now” as a Transcendentalist song… great minds think alike? (Unfortunately we had technical difficulties on this day and the first half of the service is missing from this video.)
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