It’s been a banner year for fear. Recently, there’s been an abundance of fear-driven responses to world, national and local events. In this UU Sunday Service, we see that fear leads to other emotional responses, and blocks us from engaging in rational discourse and decision making. Understanding fear can be the first step in keeping it … Continue reading Understanding & Dealing with Fear
In this Sunday service, Jenn will share reflections on abundance, scarcity, poverty, wealth, trauma, resilience and the dignity and worth of contribution. Jenn is a lifelong UU who has nurtured her spirituality at 9 different UU fellowships and churches. She has been a member of Mount Mansfield Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for over a decade.
Service Leader: Jennifer Pader
How to love every person, especially when you don’t want to. Dusty Kemp is a member of MMUUF and also a teacher, parent, and recovering addict.
What is the source of our creativity? How do we bring ideas and objects to life from nothingness? Is there such a thing as divine inspiration? Is the creative spirit the source of all faith? Poets, painters, physicists, psychologists and theologians weigh in.Our service leader is Rev. Jennifer Pader, M. Div, STM, LMSW. Like … Continue reading Being Of Color and Colorful Beings – 9:30am
Service Leader: Mary Dingee Fillmore
Service Leader: Gaye Symington and Evergreen Erb
Jennifer Pader had been planning to lead this Sunday’s service but illness has unfortunately conspired to make that impossible. MMUUF wishes Jennifer a speedy recovery and we look forward to seeing her later in the year!
A cast of This I Believe service leaders are coming to the rescue with a service perhaps a little more gently focused on Gratitude than it might have been in its regular March time slot. With spoken thoughts from Evergreen, Kelly and Gaye, you can anticipate a service that speaks to the eclectic and wondering happenstance of finding meaning and expressing gratitude in our daily experiences of life in this little corner of the ever-perplexing universe.
Ruah Swennerfelt, a member of the Burlington Friends Meeting (Quakers), will speak from her spiritual experiences in the natural world, and her decades of work for peace, justice and Earthcare. She gives the case for the intersectionality of all the issues we face today. Her work and life are filled with joy and she sows the seeds of hope.
At this special service, we will share the draft of the MMUUF Covenant along with reflections about the process and the purpose. There will be opportunities for discussion (and offline opportunities for wordsmithing). Please join us for this important reflection and discussion. Please remember that each Sunday we ask Fellowship Members to bring a donation … Continue reading Living Into Covenant: Sharing Our Collective Work
