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Dylan’s Truth

Ours is an age in which opinions rule while “truth” is at best an elusive commodity: a suspect ideal to postmodern liberals, or (to the other side) the strict word of a stricter God. But only by appealing to truth can we call out what is nonsense. So, bypassing philosophers, I find in Bob Dylan’s 45-year body of art an elemental truth. Dylan’s is a truth steeped in tradition yet devoted to creativity, defiantly challenging everything “phony,” to the very UU refrain: “for every hung up person in the whole wide universe.”

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Impressionism and Grace: Aging and Dying as a Work of Art

The 19th century art movement known as Impressionism was a radical departure from traditional art forms and from the realism offered by the then emerging technology of photography. Impressionism changed the very nature of the way we think about art. It also offers intriguing possibilities to change the way we think about life, aging, and death.

Riding the Waves of Change

Transitions never cease in the life of a congregation. Ministers come and go; finances rise and fall; neighborhoods thrive and fail. This morning we explore how to manage the excitement, anxieties and frustrations of shifting times, drawing from the teachings of the Tao te Ching.

Beacon – “Follow the Beacon”

Join BBUUC’s Beacon youth group as we explore transitions, love, and life and how to find the beacon that leads to who we are and who we will become.

Rabbi Merrill Shapiro

May 15th TBD About our Speaker: Rabbi Merrill Shapiro grew up in Bloomfield, northern New Jersey, and studied electrical engineering at both Cornell University and Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology). He became a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was identified as an educational leader by the … Continue reading Rabbi Merrill Shapiro

Dr. Jenny Stuber : “Enjoying your Sliver of the Pie? Economic Inequality in the 21st Century”

Economic inequality has been growing in the United States since the early 1970s. UNF Professor of Sociology Jenny Stuber uses a series of analogies and illustrations to describe current levels of wealth inequality in the U.S., and to explain how this inequality has come about. Her message will also focus on why how growing wealth … Continue reading Dr. Jenny Stuber : “Enjoying your Sliver of the Pie? Economic Inequality in the 21st Century”

My Journey to Holistic Medicine

Dr. Mahmoodi will share her journey as an allopathic Medicine Physician to Holistic Medicine; introduce Holistic Medicine which looks at the underlying causes of disease while focusing on the whole person – a systematic clinical approach that can reverse the epidemic of chronic disease. About our Speaker: Dr. Mahmoodi completed her medical education from the University … Continue reading My Journey to Holistic Medicine

Baggage Claim

Being a Unitarian Universalist means being on a constant spiritual journey. However, constant traveling can be wearing on even the most excited of explorers. The most experienced journey(wo)man can make mistakes. Join Buckman Bridge’s Young Adults as we grapple with how to be a good Traveler on the path to truth and meaning. Worship Leader: Vanessa Birchell Accompanied By: Marilyn Smart

Is UU A Religion?

Some critics see our absence of a creed as evidence that Unitarian Universalism is not a real religion. Others say that our acceptance of believers from various faith traditions proves we have no core beliefs of our own. Are we, indeed, members of a real religion? Linda will explore how Unitarian Universalism stacks up when … Continue reading Is UU A Religion?