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| Sunday, Aug 24 | In the Spirit of Good Conversation |
| Arthur Vaeni |
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| Henry David Thoreau wrote: "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." He understood conversation about important life matters -as did his Transcendentalist contemporaries- to be a part of their spiritual discipline. How might we create the opportunity for such conversations? |
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| Sunday, Aug 31 | Maintaining Our Idealism in the Real World |
| Homer C. Wilkins |
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| Drawing on “Antigone” by Sophocles, “Saint Joan” by George Bernard Shaw, and some personal experiences, this service explores the problem of defining one’s position between the extremes of absolute realism and of absolute idealism. To live at all in the world requires compromise. Thus, it becomes a question as to where we draw the line. |
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| Homer Wilkins has a PhD in Physics, a Masters Degree in clinical social work, and has had a long a career in teaching as well as mental health administration. Over the years, he has served as a visiting lay preacher and is a fellow Unitarian. |
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| Sunday, Sep 7 | A Ritual of Beginnings |
| Arthur Vaeni |
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| In this intergenerational service we gather to mark the beginning of another church year, to honor the separate paths we have traveled in recent months and to celebrate the ongoing life of this community. This service includes a water communion for which you are invited to bring a small amount of water from a place of special significance to you. |
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| Sunday, Sep 14 | Four Reasons to Try Something Different |
| Arthur Vaeni |
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| Reason number 1: The experience of human life is incredibly precious. Reason number 2: The experience of human life is incredibly short. Reason number 3: Society is often designed to deny reason number 1. Reason number 4: As short as life may be, we are continually sowing the seeds of our future in our present actions. |
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| Sunday, Sep 21 | Moving Through Life with Reverence |
| Arthur Vaeni |
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| Albert Schweitzer wrote, “Actually, whenever love and devotion are glimpsed, reverence for life is not far off, since one grows from the other.” Although he acknowledged we could only live the reverence for life ethic in a relative manner, Albert Schweitzer maintained it was an absolute and universal ethic that needed to inform everything we do. What does it mean to live with reverence for life? |
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| Sunday, Sep 28 | The Stewardship of Risk |
| Arthur Vaeni |
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| The title comes from the Alban Institute church consultant and Unitarian Universalist minister, the Reverend Dan Hotchkiss. Speaking about churches’ roles in the world he writes: “One part of our accountability is for sheltering our common treasure against theft and waste. The other part of our accountability—the part we aren't so good at—is for the results that can come only when we weigh the stewardship of prudence against the stewardship of risk.” As we go forward “Building Community” we might do well to ask ourselves, “What are we willing to risk?” |
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