A monthly meeting for people journeying with serious illness and/or their care-givers, is offered at OUUC. This is an open group and welcome to anyone facing serious illness. The group will be using the material and healing meditations in Stephen Levine’s book, “Healing Into Life and Death”. We will meet on the first Sunday of each month beginning April 5th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 approximately. There will be a period of reading highlights from the chapters read during the previous month, followed by a time of introductions and sharing if desired how our journey is going, followed by a 20 minute guided healing meditation. The book is readily available used online. For the guided healing meditation it is suggested bringing a yoga mat, pillow and blanket. For more information, please call: Tom or Samara Joldersma.
Archive for March, 2009
Journeying with Serious Illness Group continues
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009This Sunday in RE
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
This Sunday, our preschool-1st grade children will hear the story of Beatrix Potter in their class, using the props shown above. Potter was a Unitarian, and an early nature conservationist, as well as a beloved children’s author.
The 2nd-5th grade children will be learning about the Unitarian Universalist Association, and practicing some voting within their class as they learn that “we all have a voice” within UUism.
Why Religious Literacy?
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Dale McGowan, the author of Parenting Beyond Belief, has a blog called “The Meming of Life” and an excellent post about why secular parents still need to seek religious literacy for their children.
Religious Literacy is one of the goals of our Religious Education program here at OUUC. McGowan’s arguments echo those that were made in last year’s RE Committee retreat!
From our bookshelf
Friday, March 20th, 2009
We’ve been learning about our Unitarian history and the Transcendentalists, and there is certainly a rich literature by and about them! These pioneers of movements from environmentalism to feminism lived fascinating lives, as examined in the book American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever.
For the 10 year old and up crowd, there is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, giving us a slightly romanticised view of their lives in the mid-1800′s. We also read Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau, which uses the journals Thoreau kept on his journeys to weave together a camping and hiking adventure for young readers.
We also read several picture books:
They were all wonderful, and are available through the Timberland Regional Library system if you’d like to check them out.
Hey there!
Monday, March 16th, 2009Welcome to the new RE blog. Watch this space for news and cool stuff…