Forty-First Annual Water Communion Sunday The Worship Team, leading download: The Morning Program Water Communion is a uniquely Unitarian Universalist tradition, begun at a women’s UU convocation in 1980 by Carolyn McDade and Lucille Schuck Longview, to honor women’s work locally and to connect that work to a larger whole. In the intervening 41 years, it … Continue reading Forty-First Annual Water Communion Sunday
The Morning Program Melissa Thiel and Kurt Cichowski, speaking On May 9, 1930, George Hughes was lynched, the Grayson County Courthouse was burned to the ground, and the black business district on Mulberry Street was destroyed. There is no Texas Historical Marker for this tragic event. Black citizens of Sherman were absolutely terrorized following the … Continue reading A Historical Marker for the Sherman Riot of 1930
Cowboy Poet Ron Wallace returns for his fourth (or maybe fifth) visit to share his wit and wisdom earned after many years of writing poetry. If you don’t know Ron, this intro may help: Ron Wallace is a Native son of Oklahoma and a national poetry award winner. He is the author of four volumes … Continue reading Poet Ron Wallace Returns for this year’s Poetry Sunday
Of his upcoming discourse, Dr. Mark writes … Let’s face it. The times are difficult. The suffering is real. Global challenges are not getting any easier. With so many trials and tribulations, it is no wonder we may feel like giving up, but there is just too much at stake to give in to apathy. … Continue reading No Place for Apathy
Dr. Mark Davies returns to speak about ethics and science. Download The Morning Program https://redriveruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TMP-08-01.pdf Of his remarks, he writes: Science helps ethics know the content of the social and ecological challenges we are facing and provides a method to access knowledge we need to address these challenges. Ethics provides the methods of reflection on … Continue reading “Ethics and Science”
Download: The morning program VIRTUAL VISITORS AND FRIENDS: You can now join us @ 11:15 am on ZOOM as we live stream the morning assembly. MEETING ID: 989 0789 7878 Our guest speaker this morning Adrian Hinman, an active member of our community. They joined the congregation two years ago and are currently a … Continue reading “A Post-Pride Lesson On Gender”
Download the morning program VIRTUAL VISITORS AND FRIENDS: You can now join us @ 11:15 am on ZOOM as we live stream the morning assembly. MEETING ID: 989 0789 7878 “Not me. Not mine. Not my self.” The Morning Program: available here Saturday afternoon/evening We welcome again to the free pulpit the venerable Tashi Nyima. … Continue reading “Not Me. Not Mine. Not My Self”
THE MORNING PROGRAM: https://redriveruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TMP-07-11-v.1.pdf VIRTUAL VISITORS AND FRIENDS: You can now join us @ 11:15 am on ZOOM as we live stream the morning assembly. MEETING ID: 989 0789 7878 A month ago, the Unitarian Universalist Association turns 60. A good time to take stock and wonder, “Would liberal religion have died if the Universalists and … Continue reading When the Universalists & the Unitarians Voted to Consolidate, My Mother Voted NO!
THE MORNING PROGRAM: https://redriveruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TMP-07-04-v.2.pdf To Know the Place for the First Time. Our First Sunday back in the Chapel at Church! The poet T.S. Eliot once famously wrote: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” … Continue reading “To Know the Place for the First Time.”
NOTE TIME CHANGE: 11:00 AM Live Streaming only at these two web locations: 1. The UUA web site: http://www.uua.org/ga/off-site/2021/sunday-worship and 2. This YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VLMTPyE_U Live chat will be available during the live stream. We will have no video on our church YouTube or Facebook this week. Sun Jun 27 – 11:00 am First Universalist Church … Continue reading “Until Love Wins” – Live Stream from the 60th Annual UUA General Assembly
