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11/20/2017 Sunday morning, as we entered this Thanksgiving week, Rev. Nancy TannerThies continued our monthly theme of Abundance with reflections on the harvest — but, she reflected, the harvest is not a single event; its different phases bring us different lessons about abundance. The work of tending and weeding burgeoning plants reminds us of the…

11/13/2017 Sunday morning, we continued exploring our monthly theme of Abundance with one way Unitarian Universalists work to spread abundance in the world.  The UU Service Committee is an independent nonprofit organization that works with the UU Association to promote human rights and equity throughout the world.  Supporting refugees, deportees, and communities affected by climate…

11/6/2017 Sunday morning, Rev. Mike Adamek began exploring our Soul Matters theme for November: Abundance.  Abundance means something more and better than just having lots of stuff — as many of us know, having too much can be more curse than blessing.  So where is the “sweet spot” of Abundance as a virtue?  Rev. Mike’s…

6/28/2015 Dear UUFJC Members and Friends,Recently, the news has been an emotional roller-coaster for many of us, from the shock of the murders in Charleston to the elation of marriage equality.  In her message this morning, Rev. Nancy asked, how can we take it all in?  How can we responsibly “hold tension” between our core…

6/21/2015 Today, our own Jan Harcourt addressed the Fellowship on the topic of trauma and the body.  We often think of psychic scars as affecting the mind, but as Jan showed us through a series of brief exercises, the mind and body are not separate.  The body responds to shocks with a natural cycle of…

6/15/2015 Sunday morning, Father George Kramer returned to share his thoughts on “the new Pope” another year into Pope Francis’ tenure.  In his last visit, Father Kramer said that change in the Catholic Church would take a generation, and today he reminded us to judge leaders by their actions and not just their words, but…

6/8/2015 Sunday morning, Rev. Mike’s message was entitled “How Are You Using Your Future Today?”  As UUs we can have many different visions and ideas about the future, including that age-old religious question of what happens after we die.  Such questions may seem far on the horizon, but Rev. Mike argued that our ideas about…

5/25/2015 Sunday morning, Rev. Nancy got a bit “meta” with a message about how we approach our time together on Sundays.  She described worship as “a crossroads between the apprehension of the holy and daily life.”  In our sort of Fellowship, we don’t necessarily agree on what (or whether) “the holy” might be, but we…

5/17/2015 This morning, we held our Annual Business Meeting and elected a new Board for the 2015-2016 term, with some people continuing in their offices and others stepping up to do challenging jobs: President: Katherine Connor (returning)Vice President: Alexis Engelbrecht-VillafañeTreasurer: Bob Antweiler (returning)Secretary: Laura Gilkey (returning)Director of Religious Education: Kim Connor This year’s meeting saw…

5/10/2015 This morning, Sultan Ahmad visited our Fellowship to talk about the looming ecological crisis from an Islamic point of view.  While Ahmad’s interpretation of Islam — like common interpretations of Christianity — sees humankind set apart as the greatest of God’s creation and given Nature for the purposes of human wellbeing, he sees this…