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4/12/2020 This morning, thanks to the work of our worship team, we at UUFJC were able to come together once again and observe our annual Flower Communion online via Zoom.  While we missed our usual ritual of bringing flowers together with their stems and petals in our hands, we shared images of flowers, reflections on…

4/10/2020 In a new development since our weekly update, we will be holding a virtual observance of our annual Flower Communion this Sunday, April 12th at 10:30 am.  We hope you can join us! Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/854606889?pwd=RHlOYVN2aUQ4RCt1dTFjYzM2SnF1QT09 Meeting ID: 854 606 889Password: 080973​One tap mobile+13126266799,,854606889#,,#,080973# US (Chicago) Dial by your location        +1…

4/5/2020 This morning, we continued our revived Adult Forum with the occasional and always-beautiful poetry forum led by Bob Boldt.  Among the poems shared was this: In the Time of Pandemicby Kitty O’Meara  And the people stayed home. And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and…

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…