10/12/2020
This Sunday, we were invited to join our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia for a service focused on anger. Many of us have been hurt by anger or taught to suppress it, and it is important to check in with yourself and take care of yourself in approaching it. Still, it is a vital topic. UU Minister Stephen Shick writes of “Useful Anger,” and poet Marge Piercy writes of “A Just Anger” that, if swallowed, “clots the blood to slime.” But if we don’t want to unleash harm in our moments of rage and don’t want to swallow it, what to do? Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon suggested that we should take care of our anger like we might take care of an angry child: pay attention, give it safe space, be with it, and be ready to see the hurt beneath the anger and the love that could be thus hurt. With such care, Rev. Molly argued, anger clarifies our boundaries and reveals our power. We don’t have to choke it down; we can metabolize it into compassionate power that can bring greater justice to our world.
The full service is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/NQNbzeArUFE
Next Sunday, October 18th:
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Please submit your items for our November newsletter and print calendar to Laura Gilkey at uufjc1@gmail.com.
Adult Forum – 9:15 am
Bob Boldt
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Service – 10:30 am
“Deep Listening for Collective Knowing,” Rev. Nancy TannerThies
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Adult Religious Education – 3 pm
Our Adult Religious Education series via Zoom, led by our RE Instructor Samantha Porter and based on a UUA Tapestry of Faith curriculum, “Building the World We Dream Of.”
Reflection questions to prepare for this session:
Telling Our Story-Multiple Truths and Multiple Realities, Part Two
Reflect on your own experiences of inclusion and exclusion.
When have you felt as though you mattered?
When have you felt marginalized or excluded?
Can you recall times in your congregation when you mattered and times when you were marginalized?
Unitarian experiences?
Other denomination experiences?
(Marginalize: treating a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral; social exclusion.)
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UUFJC News and Events this week:
As we find new ways to come together, we still need financial support, even without Sunday offering baskets. We now have an online donation option through PayPal: Donate to UUFJC
You can also mail donations and pledges to:
UUFJC
Attn: Treasurer
PO Box 1245
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
We also have UU-themed facemasks for sale in two designs:
UU Principles,
Science is Real, Black Lives Matter, etc.
$10 each; proceeds support UUFJC. Contact Katherine Connor: connok510@gmail.com
Tomorrow, Monday, September 28th at 6:30 pm, Patt Behler hosts an unofficial “Off-Deck” discussion group for UUFJC members and friends. This month’s topic: “Mark Twain.” For location and to RSVP, contact Patt.
On Wednesdays at 2 pm, Laura Gilkey hosts a weekly virtual book club for UUFJC members and friends via Zoom. Current selection: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor. We will listen to an audio version with accompanying onscreen text during meetings; you do not have to read the book on your own. This week we will finish Chapter Three.
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On Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Katherine Connor hosts a weekly Zoom Happy Hour for UUFJC Members and Friends to gather and check in.
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On Fridays at 1 pm, Robin Duple of the UU Church of Columbia hosts a weekly Zoom get-together for crafters and creators of all stripes and has invited UUFJC members and friends to join in. For more information, visit the UUCC website: https://uucomo.org/event/crafting-club-online-weekly/all/
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm; and Sundays starting at 7 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This Thursday, October 15th at 7 pm, Missouri River Regional Library hosts a Capital READ Book Discussion. Registration and masks required for in-person attendance (in the East Art Gallery). Program also available via Zoom. Join library director Claudia Cook and adult programmer Madeline Matson for a discussion of Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper, the 2020 Capital READ title. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on Library events, visit MRRL.org.
Our neighbors at Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development are holding online services via Zoom at 10 am on Sundays, as well as meditation nights via Zoom at 7 pm on Thursdays. For more information, contact go2buddha@aol.com.