Sunday, July 29, 6pm - It’s the last gathering before Labor Day – join us for pizza and conversation at Pompei, 1531 W. Taylor.

Sunday, July 22, 6pm - Movie Night, with "Freedom Writers."

 

Sunday, July 15, 6pm - We celebrate the beginning of the Season for Healing and Harvest with a look at healing the body and the spirit.  Every time you think “Unfair!” you are invited to forgive someone.  Every time you see someone in need you are invited to help them.  Who is your neighbor?  What do you owe them?  What do you owe yourself?

 

Sunday, July 8, 6pm - Stefan Morgan, youth minister at First Baptist Congregational and a veteran of several U.S. engagements in Europe and Africa , speaks about vets and their situation after returning home.

 

Sunday, July 1, 6pm - Rev. Jean, on "Coming Home."  We leave home many times during our lives.  Can we ever “go home” again?  What does it take to make “home” in a new place, a new outlook, a new religion?  Also, we introduce the "Church in a Box" at the little park at Ogden and Ashland, just north of the UE building.

 

Sunday, June 24, 6pm - For Movie Night, we watch "The Secret."

 

Sunday, June 17, 6pm - We celebrate Juneteenth, the anniversary of the anniversary of the day in 1865 that slaves in Texas finally were told they had been freed, two years before.

 

Sunday, June 10, 6pm - The First Person series continues with Ron Kroll, actor, man of heart, talking about his journey from Catholicism to Unitarianism, and the spiritual landmarks along the way.

 

Sunday, June 3, 6pm - It's Flower Communion Sunday - if you can, bring a flower, take home a flower.  Rev. Jean talks about "What Feeds Your Soul?"

 

Sunday, May 27, 6pm – Movie Night– Come see – WHOLE, UNEXPURGATED! – the documentary about "The Yes Men," who impersonated the World Trade Organization and got away with it.  The response of business people to their subversive honesty is heartening.

 

Sunday, May 20, 6pm – Adam Kader, director of an immigrant Worker Rights Center, reflects on Popular Education, an approach pioneered by Paolo Freire in the slums of Brazil. How can this revolutionary, bottom-up approach be used in worker education? How does it contribute to building Earth Community?

 

Sunday, May 13, 6pm – The "First Person" series continues with David Karcher  talking about his spiritual journey, starting with his Prussian grandfather who ran away from the military to start anew in America.

 

Sunday, May 6, 6pm – "Another World is Possible" - Rev. Jean Darling speaks about her trip to Mexico City and Cuernavaca to witness NAFTA effects firsthand and meet some of the people who have taken this economic lemon and made lemonade.

Sunday, April 29, 6pm - a Fifth Sunday - A comedy film and improv delight:  The Academy Award winning short, "West Bank Story" - a musical comedy take off of "West Side Story" about two feuding West Bank sandwich places... Then some improv games from our resident actor and improv talent Ron Kroll...

Sunday, April 22, 6pm – Film Night:  Celebrate Earth Day - Join us for potluck dinner and "A Quiet Revolution," the film about Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2002 Nobel peace prize, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees in its efforts for community mobilization for sustainable development.

Sunday, April 15, 6pm – Larry Kotula speaks on "The Sustainable City" - his plan for dense cities that are livable, grow their own food, and have plenty of green space for us to go out and play in.

Sunday, April 8, 6pm – We celebrate Easter and Passover with our own UU seder, inspired by several liberal haggadot.  We celebrate liberation from our physical and emotional and spiritual enslavement of the past;  we mull over what still keeps us from being free.  Bring food - we'll feast and celebrate!

Sunday, April 1, 6pm – Movie Night - Potluck dinner;  then we continue our celebration of the Season for Nonviolence with "A Force More Powerful," a documentary on nonviolent movements for social change through the 20th century.  Discussion led by Laurie Hasbrook of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

Sunday, March 25, 6pm – Mary Zepernik from the progressive think-tank Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) helps us explore  "Got Democracy?"  Mary was interviewed in "The Corporation," the film that told us that corporations had the moral outlook of psychopaths.

Sunday, March 18, 6pm – Are veterans treated as second-class citizens?  On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, special guest Ray Parrish, of Veterans for Peace, speaks on "Conscience and War:  Resistance vs. PTSD."

Sunday, March 11, 6pm – The "First Person" series continues with Red Druid, free spirit Mark Lickerman talking about "My Life as a Spiritual Warrior."

Sunday, March 4, 6pm – "Wandering in the Desert"   In some ways, our lives are lived "in the desert" looking for the promised land.  Where do we turn for hope?  How do we find choice when fate knocks us upside the head?

Sunday, February 25, 6pm – Movie Night:  "Biko" - the story of the young African National Congress organizer murdered by the apartheid regime.

Sunday, February 18, 6pm – Special program, part of the Season for Nonviolence - Matt Van Slyke speaks on the Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act, a proposal in Congress to fund peacemaking at home and abroad.

Sunday, February 11, 6pm – the "First Person" series continues with Owen Wagner talking about "Pegboards and Pegs" - his story of looking for a place to fit in this world.

Sunday, February 4, 6pm – Muse with us on "Love" in this the season - what is it really?  Do you receive it?  Give it?  Does it strike like a thunderbolt from the blue, or do you cultivate it?

Sunday, January 28, 5pm – for Film Night, we start off the peace/nonviolence series with the powerful biography "Gandhi" – bring food, we’ll eat and watch together. It’s a 3 hour film, so we’re starting early, 5pm.

Sunday, January 21:  "Drums, Chant, Song" - we make a joyful noise, to get in touch with our spirit-body.

Sunday, January 14:  We remember Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contribution to nonviolent action in the service of justice;  we hear Marilyn Myles tell her story of growing up black in America.

Sunday, January 7:  "Jihad vs. McWorld" - Through readings from pacifists of the past 150 years, we explore the alternatives to these demonic choices, including communities of resistance and communities of peace.

Sunday, December 31:  New Year's Eve - We had a party at Jean's, talked about theology, what UUism is, ate spaghetti, drank mulled cider...

Sunday, December 24:  "Miracle on 34th Street" - It's movie night, and what better way to spend Christmas Eve than watching a classic reminder of what the Christmas spirit is all about?  Join us for wassail, potluck dinner, and good company!

Sunday, December 17:  "A Bottom-Up Faith" - How can we create a church that flourishes on the principles of "popular education" a la Paulo Freire, the great Brazilian educator?  Where your life skills are valued, where voicing the problem leads to creating solutions, where learning leads to action.

Sunday, December 10:  "Human Rights Day" - Mary Kay Flanagan from the Eighth Day Center for Justice speaks on the Earth Charter, and what is being done to promote this great document.

Sunday, December 3:  "Tolerance and the Roots of Unitarianism" - Romanian Unitarian churches still look to the Italian humanist Faustus Socinus, author of the Socinian heresy, for theological inspiration.

Sunday, November 26:  Movie Night:  "Smoke Signals" -

Sunday, November 19:  "Thanksgiving" - What are the signs of the times?  Dems win Congress, Repubs going green, Rummy resigns... What is happening in the world that gives you hope?  Bring your thoughts, any favorite readings.

Sunday, November 12:  "For Love or Money" – How can we embody the abundance of the Universe in our congregation?

Sunday, November 5:  "The Seventh Principle" – our part in the interconnected web - gee whilikers, now everyone recognizes global warming!

Sunday, October 29:  Susan Urban, with Kate Early, leads "Harken Now, the Darkness Comes," a celebration of the last-harvest holiday of Samhain (Celtic New Year or Halloween).

	Sunday, October 22:  "Confronting Evil" - Challenged by the question:  "Global warming is a sin!  Why aren't the churches trumpeting this from the pulpit?!!"
	Sunday, October 15, 6pm:  "The Tent of Abraham" - can a common spiritual ancestor help Jews, Christians and Muslims live together in peace?

Sunday, October 8, 6pm:  "An Inconvenient Truth" - In this mind-blowing film Al Gore lays it all out about global warming - unless we do something about it.

Sunday, October 1, 6pm - Dave Karcher, "Turning the Powers"

Sunday, September 24, 6pm - Movie Night!  "Fierce Grace" - the story of Ram Dass's life.

Sunday, September 17:  The Theology of Dr. Seuss

Sunday, September 10:  Jean's summer reading:  David Korten's new book, The Great Turning:  from Empire to Earth Community, details how we've been hoodwinked all these (past 5000) years, and how we are - already - beginning to turn toward Earth Community.

Sunday, September 3:  We celebrate Labor Day with our annual picnic in Union Park, Warren and Ashland, and special guest drummer Matt Meyer.