Crystal St. Marie Lewis. Uuathome. The Faith Explorer. TjucDre. All Together Now. Family Ministry at Saltwater. RE Blog - UUFHC RE Program. March 2014 I picture challenges in my spiritual journey to be like unfortunate detours during your daily commute, or sitting in a barely moving traffic jam for hours on end.
What do you do when your spiritual journey hits a traffic jam?! Seems awful. “Detour for the next 5 miles,” “No entrance,” “ROAD CLOSED.” That’s the worst. Now what? Recently, I had a wonderful conversation with our wonderful Religious Education Committee Chair, Laura Potter. Miss Rumphius, known in her town by the sea as “Lupine Lady,” was given a task by her grandfather when she was a little girl.
We should all be so lucky to have a challenge like Miss Rumphius, so easily solved by spreading wildflower seeds throughout our seaside towns. February 2014 Distractions are a given in our lives. As a college student who spent at least 2 Sundays per month working in a UU church, my Saturday nights were rarely your “typical” college student Saturday night. So what keeps us focused on our spiritual journey?
January 2014. CarolineBP @ UCMtl. UU Living Mosaic » Archive - A Unitarian Universalist Association Blog. My name is Steven Rene Ballesteros.
I live in Tucson, Arizona, and I love my moms. Plural. I am who I am in large part because of two women in my life. Two spectacular, talented, and fantastic women. My two mothers. They are attracted to each other and they kiss one another on the way out the door to work or at the dinner table when we’re planning out the week. A spiritual community of celebration, service, freedom and vision. See the Family Minister’s Welcome Message.
Family Minister’s Blog – April 2014 Lesson learned from our month of spiritual practices in March: when doing a walking meditation with children, do NOT walk by the playground! There is much in our life, no matter how much power we may have, that we cannot control or influence–so much we simply need to accept. Or … [Read the rest] Religious Exploration Blog – March 2014 As my neighbor and avid gardener reminded me recently, March is the time in the Bay Area for planting our gardens. Family Minister’s Blog – February 2014 We are in middle of the National Standing on the Side of Love campaign, the national UU campaign, which kicked off Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend.
Religious Exploration Blog – December 2013. DRE Blog. Details Parent Category: Blogs Category: DRE Blog Written by Andrea James One recent Sunday, I was making my rounds among the religious exploration rooms and I popped in to visit the eight-to-eleven year olds.
There were at least ten children present and their lesson plan that morning was on Judaism. First Unitarian Universalist Church. Director of Religious Education blog. Louise Marcoux,Director of Religious Education (DRE) Blog posts and the latest Religious Education news.
Monet and the Open Mind How do we teach children about the fundamental messages of Unitarian Universalism? Real life provides all the stories we could ever need. When I learned that the worship theme was French Impressionism, all I could think of was the scathing commentary Monet’s pioneering work received from the Paris Salon of 1874. Today’s worship service is about French Impressionism – which is a beautiful approach to painting. Rev. Linda Olson Peebles's Page - Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA. Religious Education Blog - Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church. New Beginnings for Spring 2014!
By Rayna Hamre posted Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 11:32 am What a difference a year makes! We are comfortably settled into our new church home and have our new settled minister, Rev. Sian Wiltshire, installed and serving our OCUUC community. Please join us on a Sunday and see our new Religious Education Rooms and our lovely new nursery. Blessings~~ Rayna Hamre Director of Religious Education, OCUUC Unexpected Summer Blessings: UndocuVan By Rayna Hamre posted Saturday, July 20, 2013, 1:29 pm The months of June and July have brought so many great events for our children, youth and adults at OCUUC. Yet Another Unitarian Universalist. Here’s the first installment of an abridged version of the Diné bahané, or Navajo creation story, that I put together for a small class of 5th and 6th graders a couple of years ago.
This version of the Diné bahané is adapted from a public domain source edited by Aileen O’Bryan, The Dîné: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians, Bulletin 163 of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, (1956), pp. 1-13. (It’s in the public domain because it is a U.S. government document.) When I presented the Diné bahané to the 5th and 6th graders, they were fascinated. They quickly noticed this story is very different from the two creation stories most familiar to Western culture, the creation story in the Bible where God creates the universe in seven days, or the creation story of ancient Greece in which the universe comes into being from Xaos (Chaos).
Here, then, is my abridged version of the Diné bahané: Introduction. Chalice spark.