This week at BBUUC…. June 16: Rev. Diane Davis will present “Curiosity and Cowbirds” About Our Speaker:Diane has been a medium, teacher and minister for over 35 years. She resides at, and is a member of Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, which is a 116-year-old community of spiritually-minded people located near DeLand, Florida. She has trained … Continue reading This Week at BBUUC…June 23, 2013
This week at BBUUC…. June 16: Liz Teal will present ” Reproductive JUUstice: a Love Story” The term ‘reproductive’ is almost exclusively viewed by media and by most of who hear it as relating to the female, the feminine, or to women in general. We are now accustomed to terms like reproductive freedom, and reproductive … Continue reading This Week At BBUUC…June 16, 2013
This week at BBUUC…. June 9: Reverend Jack Ford will present: “Hey Jude: Hospitality as a Spiritual Project” Did you know that Jude is the Patron Saint of lost causes? This fact has made a difference in the lives of thousands. People react to difficult circumstances in a wide variety of ways. Our Southeast … Continue reading This Week at BBUUC…June 9, 2013
This week at BBUUC…. May 12: Reverend Jack Ford will present: “Love” In the famous “Love” chapter in I Corinthians, the Apostle Paul presents an eloquent definition which ends with this: “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.” This is the third and … Continue reading This Week at BBUUC….May 12, 2013
This week at BBUUC…. May 5: Reverend Bill Ringgold will present: “Paul’s Weird Theology : Blame it on Philip II” 350 years before Christ, an earthshaking change in military hardware set the stage for major parts of Christian belief. As a result, the world, and the development of western culture, were fundamentally changed. While … Continue reading May 5: This Week at BBUUC
This week at BBUUC…. April 28: Bob Deyle will present: “Beyond Apocaloptimism: Faith and Hope in the Face of Climate Change”. Climate change is happening and some predictions of its impacts border on the apocalyptic. Do you have faith that humanity will somehow avoid ecological and social calamity? Where can we find hope that … Continue reading April 28: This Week at BBUUC
This week at BBUUC…. April 21: Sheila Harty will present “In Metaphor We Trust” All religious beliefs are true—metaphorically; and all metaphors are false—literally. How to make the distinctions? Human understanding is inherently metaphorical. I saw the phrase “in metaphor we trust” on a bumper sticker after 9/11. I liked that its inherent theological … Continue reading This Week at BBUUC…April 21, 2013
This week at BBUUC…. April 14: Reverend Jack Ford will present: “Hope” This is the second in a trilogy of sermons on Faith, Hope, and Love. Teacher and writer Scott Russell Sanders reminds us that young people today know we are in trouble. Everywhere “they see ruined landscapes and ravaged communities and broken … Continue reading
This week at BBUUC…. April 7: Dr. Mark Yount will Present: “Now You See It…” Mark Yount will present “Now You See It…” Stage magic works by inducing us to focus our attention on a diversion. In much the same way, our most intractable psychological issues may be tricks we’ve learned to play on ourselves. Eastern … Continue reading April 7: This Week at BBUUC
This week at BBUUC…. March 31: The Worship Committee will present: “Easter Sunday Service and Flower Communion” We will celebrate the season with an intergenerational service that honors the interwoven meanings of Passover, Easter and Spring. We will also conduct our annual Flower Communion during the service. This is a tradition and ritual that … Continue reading
