November 27, 2022

• Debbie Eston
• Larry Kaylor
• Martha Childs
• Monica Pilman
• democracy
• Time for All Ages
• Unitarian Universalism

FCU Deacon Monica Pilman delivers a thoughtful talk on democracy.

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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.

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November 13, 2022

• Janet Adachi
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• 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!

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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.

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October 30, 2022

• Peter Ersland
• Rev. Jackie Clement
• Thea Shapiro
• ancestors
• death
• Dia de los Muertos
• Native American
• Time for All Ages

FCU’s own (retired UU minister) Rev. Jackie Clement led a wonderful multigenerational service on “Dia de los Muertos” (“Day of the Dead”).

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October 23, 2022

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Ben Atherton-Zeman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• guns
• Time for All Ages
• violence

I discuss guns and the culture of violence in the USA in light of Littleton’s own gun issue.

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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.

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October 2, 2022

• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• change
• Time for All Ages
• transformation

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.

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September 25, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Judaism
• Rosh Hashanah
• shofar
• Time for All Ages

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.

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September 11, 2022

• Bill Duston
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• ingathering
• Time for All Ages
• Water Communion

Our annual Ingathering and Water Communion Service!

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