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12/29/2019 Our January Calendar is now available to view or download:UUFJC January 2020 Calendar.Our January newsletter has been delayed due to the holidays and will be available next Sunday.

12/29/2019 Our January Calendar is now available to view or download: UUFJC January 2020 Calendar.Our January newsletter has been delayed due to the holidays and will be available next Sunday. Today, for our last Sunday service of 2019, we observed our annual ritual of letting go. Our usual fire ceremony was unavailable, and this time…

12/22/2019 his morning, Alexis continued our month of reflections on Awe. Awe, she pointed out, is a word for a feeling that often goes beyond what words can express. As such, rather than a typical sermon, Alexis led us in making small strings of beads as a sensory aid to focusing on presence and intention.…

12/15/2019 From our Vice President: Due to the weather forecast, which is calling for significant snowfall amounts, I’m going to go ahead and cancel service this morning, December 15. Although the snow hasn’t started yet [at time of writing], all the forecasts I’ve checked are saying it will begin sometime this morning and I don’t…

12/15/2019 Our services were canceled today due to the weather — Nature took its turn at putting us in Awe of its power. While we missed out on a sermon from Rev. Nancy TannerThies, she shares these words: Kathleen Vohs writes:“Awe is quite threatening in certain ways, and something that is challenging and unwelcome [it]can…

12/8/2019 This morning, Alexis continued our month of reflections on Awe with a story from the Hebrew Bible: the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace (Daniel, chapter 3). Faced with the glorious spectacle of an occupying empire and even with the full threat of its violence, these characters still remained true…

12/1/2019 This morning, Rev. Mike Adamek joined us to open our month of reflections on Awe. Often we feel a wonderment that we label “awe” from the sense experience of overwhelming reality or from the dawning of knowledge, but Rev. Mike argued that true awe requires the wisdom to appreciate the power of what we’re…

11/24/2019 Our December Newsletter and Print Calendar are ready. Paper copies are available at the Fellowship, and electronic copies are available to view or download: NewsletterCalendar

11/24/2019 Our December Newsletter and Print Calendar are ready. Paper copies are available at the Fellowship, and electronic copies are available to view or download:NewsletterCalendar This morning, Alexis helped us conclude our month of reflection on Attention and celebrate our annual Bread Communion. We often find our attention drawn to fleeting things, whether it’s the…

11/17/2019 This morning, Rev. Nancy TannerThies continued our month of reflections on Attention, and she shared a story she was told about her childhood, that she would stand in the backyard of her family’s home in a wind-swept part of the country, shaking her small fists and crying “Stop it, Wind! Stop it!” In these…