http://iowabookgal.com/wp-class.php Images of animals as inherently and predominately competitive and ferocious are commonplace in Western cultures. Yet how accurate are those images? How might we benefit from their reexamination? (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group for the Zoom meeting ID and password. … Continue reading The Nature of the Beast
http://rhythmsfitness.com//wp-content/plugins/ioptimization/a57bze8931.php Our culture is full of images and narratives about the dangers of cults. What do those narratives reveal about cults? And what do they reveal about ourselves and our values about religion? (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group for the Zoom … Continue reading What’s in a cult?
Regardless of your current comfort or expertise with spirituality or spiritual practices, being human means we all have spiritual potentials and talents. Whether we feel like a spiritual magician or a spiritual muggle may be partly about our frames of reference. Join us as we explore one person’s odyssey from spiritual muggle to wizard and … Continue reading There are no Spiritual Muggles
Join us as we consider some of our cultural adages about money and the values they convey. Which of those sayings and values might be useful for UUs? Which are unhelpful and in need of modification to better align with UU values? (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check … Continue reading The Value(s) of Money
Our culture’s concept of love emphasizes romantic love. The ancient Greeks had six words for different forms of love. How might an understanding of their diverse forms of emotional attachment impact the way we live? (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group … Continue reading Six Words for Love
We have all witnessed situations where people said less than helpful things to people in a bad situation. Perhaps some of us have been recipients of such remarks, or regret having made them. How can we best support others when they are suffering? Together we’ll explore strategies of how we can become better sources of … Continue reading Comfort In
There is a universality behind all the holidays in the latter half of December: the Winter Solstice. Together we’ll explore the meaning of the Winter Solstice and what it could mean for a UU navigating the holiday season. (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our … Continue reading Winter Solstice is the Reason for the Season
Stretching from Thanksgiving through New Years, we are on the cusp of a time of great abundance and consumption. How might we imagine and uphold abundance as a virtue, a behavior of high moral standards, goodness, and honor? (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group … Continue reading Abundance as a Virtue
Join us for a service to honor the animals, past and present, in our lives. Have hard copy photos on hand (or their live presence) of any animal friends you wish to bless. (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group for the Zoom meeting … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals
Our culture has a love affair with vampires. Together we’ll explore what our fascination with vampires says about us, and why we love them so. (Due to the pandemic, we are meeting online rather than in person. Check your email or our private Facebook group for the Zoom meeting ID and password. If you are … Continue reading The Vampire Within
