Past Worship Services

What’s Next?

Ann Bonanno will share her thoughts and musings about what happens to our essence when we die. She will offer a brief overview of various religious beliefs and welcomes the Fellowship to share their beliefs, or wonders, on this topic.

Ann Bonanno is a member of MMUUF and has chaired the Sunday Service Committee for the past decade or so. Ann’s spirituality is based in the natural world and the connections between all living things, and she suspects her life’s goal is to become a tree.  Ann believes strongly in living in gratitude and spends some time each day grateful for the beautiful state of Vermont and the MMUUF community.

My Bag of Worries

Gaye will offer reflections about how practices grounded in UU faith may help us move beyond worrying events and anxious times. How do we carry our pain and fears? How do we take care of ourselves and our communities? She will also reflect on how our lay-led faith community can balance the desire to serve as a place of refuge with also being a welcoming community to all. And while she’s still working on the service, she’s very clear that she will not fully answer those questions and is counting on others to share their thoughts and strategies for moving through anxious times and events, individually and as a community.

Gaye is a long-time member of MMUUF. She’s retired from a nonlinear career that included baking, managing mission-focused organizations, legislative service, and leading a grantmaking organization. Now her days change with seasons, but consistent elements include trying to keep up with her 90-something friends and role-models and serving on the board of VTDigger, a nonprofit news organization. She lives in Jericho with her husband, Chuck Lacy, and their two cats.

Becoming Braver Angels: Depolarizing the United States

Tired of all the “us vs. them” dialog surrounding the recent elections? Come listen to a brief talk by Braver Angels Ambassador Mary K. Dennison. Braver Angels is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to address the political polarization that exists in our country.

Things That Don’t Go Together: How Religion and Politics Don’t Mix

This Service will discuss how religion, especially fundamentalism, has come to dominate politics and why that is a recipe for disaster in a democratic society that upholds the principle of the separation of church and state.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth Langer is currently the Minister at the First Church in Barre Universalist Church in Barre, Vermont where he was ordained. Before becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister, he was a college music professor for over twenty years. He is a composer and the author of several books on spirituality and the arts.
 

Unsettled

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, Rev. Nicoline shares how the process of truth and reconciliation currently underway north of the US/Canada border has transformed how she thinks about concepts like identity, citizenship, and the country she calls home.

A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, Rev. Nicoline Guerrier has served the UU Fellowship of Plattsburgh, NY as minister since 2018. Previously a “bi-vocational minister” who combined ordained ministry with social work, she is also biracial, and almost bi-national, as she resides in Montreal and commutes to the US for work.