In 2016, our congregation realized we were unintentionally practicing Isolationism. We were a white congregation in a white suburb, living in a “bubble” but feeling genuinely troubled by the growing chasm between black and white people. We decided to reach out intentionally across the color line to meet each other, to talk, to create friendships, … Continue reading Building Racial Unity: Conversations and Relationships
Water is required for all living things to exist. Given this fact, it is an enigma why human race permits some to pollute, poison, steal or hoard this very essence of existence. This year’s water communion will focus on our collective treatment of water: one global, one national, and one local. Bring a small container … Continue reading Water Communion Sunday
The challenges of our time are too great for people of different faiths to simply get along. The urgency of now requires people of all faiths along with people of no particular faith to move beyond coexistence to work together in the human community for the transformation of the world towards peace, justice, and sustainability.
Hurricanes, floods, fires … what kind of world will we be facing in 20 years? What will you need to know and do? And how do you find the hope and inspiration needed to keep moving forward when the earth is undergoing such massive, global change?
Stewart B. tells his story of a journey from a standard-issue, somewhat functional life into alcoholism, and from there to a life that is happily, usefully whole. Stewart B. is a retired toolmaker. He has been a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous since January of 1988. He has taken A.A. meetings into jails and prisons, … Continue reading Acquiring a Spiritual Life Through Alcoholism
Back again to share with us some of his poetry is Ron Wallace. He is an Oklahoma Native of Choctaw, Cherokee and Osage ancestry and is the author of seven volumes of poetry published by TJMF Publishing. He is a three-time finalist in the Oklahoma Book Awards. His work has been recently featured in “Oklahoma … Continue reading Poetry Sunday
As Unitarian Universalists, in our 7th Principle, we promise to respect the interdependent web of all life on earth. At our 2018 Spring Meeting we voted to create a micro-habitat for the threatened Monarch butterfly by creating a registered, certified Monarch Waystation. I will discuss the plight of the Monarch and what we can do … Continue reading Monarch Waystations and the 7th Principle
Grayson County Shelter, our neighbor at the end of the block, is a homeless shelter that is always open (24/7) and welcomes displaced families and singles from Grayson county and beyond (in both Texas and Oklahoma). The shelter is not a government agency of any ilk and relies on the goodwill donations of car-ing people, … Continue reading Hope Lives Here
Recently the chances have increased exponentially that the United States will go down in history as the worst global offender in abdicating its moral respon-sibility to preserve a livable planet. This greatest of all moral failures will be its most well-known contri-bution in the shortened history of human civiliza-tion, unless we do all in our … Continue reading A Beloved Community of Resistance and Resilience
Join us Sunday @ 11:15 on our YouTube Channel or our Facebook page Direct link to the morning assembly The meme machines are working full time to register every crisis we face as one of Titanic proportions—and us people are just helpless, hopeless fools, doomed to rearranging the deck chairs on a ship that’s destined to sink. But nobody actually … Continue reading “Deck Chairs, Lifeboats, Icebergs? Time for A Better Story”
