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UUFJC Newsletter, "Flame on the Water," August 2022
Sunday, July 31st, 2022
This morning, we shared a recent service from our neighbors at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia in which Rev. Molly Housh-Gordon held her periodic "Question Box Service." Rev. Molly delivered her best off-the-cuff answers to questions ranging from a child asking why she officiated their parents' wedding to a congregant asking what happens after we die (a topic which it turns out Rev. Molly recently authored a children's book addressing).
As we at UUFJC wrap up our July theme of Resilience and prepare for our August theme of Compassion, questions big and small can be useful guides. Continuing to question can help us keep our worldviews flexible enough to bounce back with resilience in the face of setbacks. Questioning our knee-jerk reactions and assumptions about others can help us open space for more compassion toward them. UUs often hold questioning as more sacred than certainty, and for good reasons: resilience, compassion, and beyond!
Rev. Molly's Q&A session is available to view online: https://youtu.be/EWwD_NXbwPI
For those who would also like to keep even more up-to-date with our neighbors at UUCC, their service message from this morning is also available to view online: https://youtu.be/L-PjeWB4ofM
Next Sunday, August 7th:
Adult Forum - 9:15 am
Ralph Jobe, Cole County Public Administrator
The public administrator is responsible for handling the assets of people with various disabilities.
Our Adult Forum is currently available both in-person and via Zoom.
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Service and Religious Education - 10:30 am
"Compassion is a Vital Emotion, but not Sufficient," Rev. Mike Adamek
Phillip Hallie argues that ethics is not based solely on reason but also on the emotion of compassion. You are likely not to be ethical if you cannot suffer with others in their calamities. Yet Adam Smith argues that "reflect that mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent, and oppose to the emotions of compassion which [you] feel for a particular person, a more enlarged compassion which [you] feel for mankind" ("Moral Sentiments", II.ii.3.7: 88-89)." When do "we choose to, in very traditional terms, listen to our heart, and when to listen to our head, and why?"
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Children's Religious Education - 10:30 am
Children attending in-person are welcome to join RE Instructor Samantha Porter for a lesson during the service hour. This week's lesson: "What is compassion?."
Lunch after Service: If you would like to join other members and friends for lunch, look for a whiteboard in our entry hallway near the water fountain to see the weekly lunch location. Please add a tally to the whiteboard if you plan to attend.
Masks are now optional for those attending UUFJC events in person.
If you have a joy or concern that you would like to have read during a service or shared in our weekly email, please submit it by noon on the Friday before through our website: http://uufjc.org/joys--concerns.html
We will also have paper forms available Sunday morning for submissions.
Zoom participants, please use the web form. Submissions made after noon on Friday may not be read or shared until the following week.
UUFJC News and Events this week:
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Thank you for being with us and supporting us!
And remember all our ways to stay in touch! You can visit our website at uufjc.org. You can also join our open-posting "UUFJC Cafe" Google Group to chat with other members and friends via e-mail and receive additional announcements and reminders (contact the Administrator at [email protected] to join).
We are currently in urgent need of donations for our free community pantry. During the summer heat we cannot stock canned items, and we generally cannot stock glass containers or fresh produce, but there are many possibilities that will be helpful for our neighbors. For more information, contact Joan Kurtzeborn. Reimbursements are available; contact our treasurer, Bob Antweiler: [email protected].
On Tuesdays, Alberta Mobley teaches her own weekly chair yoga class at our building 9:30 to 10:30 am. Donations requested. Contact Alberta for more information.
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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An Insight Meditation group taught by Joe McCormack meets at our building Thursday nights at 7 pm. For more information, contact Bob Antweiler.
Our building is reserved by community groups Wednesdays and Saturdays starting at 6 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 pm. If you have access to our building, please allow privacy at these times.
Community Events this week:
This Tuesday, August 2nd, Missouri River Regional Library, in conjunction with Central Missouri Community Action, hosts the last of their scheduled summer Caring Connections events from 11:30-4:00. People can come and get signed up for Medicaid, get eviction assistance, utility assistance, get signed up for Catholic Charities' food pantry among other things. Contact Lisa Sanning. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
This Friday, August 5th at 7 pm in their Art Gallery, MRRL presents their monthly First Friday Film: "Maudie." Maud, a bright-eyed, intelligent woman, hunched and with hands disabled by arthritis, yearns to be independent from her overly protective family. She answers an advertisement for a housekeeper by a 40-year-old bachelor, Everett, who owes nothing to anyone. She is a terrible housekeeper and spends most of her time painting. But over time, she wins his heart. When they realize people will actually buy her cards and paintings, he supports and encourages her. Maud's determination for her art, along with her partnership with Everett, blossoms into a career as a famous folk artist. Based on a true story, the film stars Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins, both of whom provide award-worthy performances. Contact Madeline Matson. For more on library events, visit MRRL.org.
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