Although winter is the season of dormancy, darkness and cold, the December Solstice marks the “turning of the Sun” and the days slowly get longer. Come celebrate the lighter days to come and nature’s continuing cycle.
The Chalica Holiday Pageant is loosely based on the Spirit Play Story about our Promises. Together the children explore each Promise, and how they connect to our sources and Holiday traditions.
An exploration of relationships and being mindful about our connections to others.
A sermon containing thoughts about a way to reach out as well as nurturing our own soul and building our own sanctuary. In addition, our Giving Tree opportunity for the Christmas Season this year will be introduced.
Our first principle asks us to affirm and promote the dignity and worth of every person. But what does that mean? Does everybody have dignity and worth, even mass murderers? Linda will discuss how our first principle came about, why it is so fundamental to our faith, and how we, as Unitarian Universalists, can honor it.
Two Thanksgivings ago when Mark made a pilgrimage to Maryland for his father’s illness, Ron Rothberg delivered his sermon “Living Thanks.” Now, Mark revisits his observations on the philosophy and spirituality of thankfulness in light of his own “pilgrim’s progress” toward a life lived in thanks.
In this talk, Prof. Mattice will draw on material from the ancient Chinese classic, Sunzi’s Art of War, and contemporary work on metaphor, to think through the problems associated with viewing argument and disagreement through combative metaphors.
As we dedicate BBUUC’s beautiful Memorial Garden*, does it serve to only soothe our hearts or are the intended spirits aware of it? Is there life after death? Are our spirits conscious and aware? Can we perceive events in the material realm?
Join the BBUUC in honoring the Ancestors in this special Sunday service presented by Jacksonville CUUPS. Please bring a photo representing your departed loved ones to place in honor upon the memorial altar.
We need to be smart about what ‘dumbs us down.’ In other words, being ignorant is not so much an art, as it is a science….and in this day and age, what we don’t know really is killing us
