May 18, 2025

• Lori Locascio
• Martha Childs
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• "A Litany for Survival" (poem) by Audre Lorde
• The Places that Scare You, Pema Chödrön
• fighting fascism
• mortality
• Time for All Ages

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April 28, 2024

• Bill Duston
• Larry Kaylor
• Prisl Dumka
• death
• mortality
• near death experience
• Time for All Ages

November 1, 2020

• Emily Welch
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• afterlife
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• death
• mortality
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

We took a healing look at death and the afterlife from a UU perspective. Guest appearances by Carolyn McCreary and The Artemis Singers. If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” to see the Order of Service.

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January 6, 2019

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Collected Poems of Robert Hayden
• astronauts
• death
• mortality
• remembrance
• Robert Hayden

This reading (the poem “Astronauts” by the great Robert Hayden) and my short sermon (“Remembering the Astronauts) were shared at the end of Remembrance Sunday. Remembrance Sunday is an annual FCU tradition; the congregation lights Candles of Love and Memory to recall irreplaceable family and friends who died in the past year as well as Candles of Hope and Joy to celebrate children dear to us who were born in the past year. Errata note: The beautiful line in Hayden’s poem is “once Absolute Otherwhere” (not “Everywhere”, as I mistakenly say a couple of times in this video.) My apologies! Read his gorgeous poem at this link.

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