September 2, 2001
Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker
Learning Work - Becoming Adult
This sermon will be based on some of the ideas and insights of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his recent book titled "Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work". I'll expand on some of his ideas to look at how we can be a supportive religious community for our young people as they journey through the formative transition from youth to adult, what they need from us and what can we learn about ourselves from them as we help and guide them into their adulthood. Good questions for a Labor Day Weekend.
First Forum
Personal Meanings of Being a Unitarian Universalist.
Leader: John Porterfield.
What has it meant for you to be a Unitarian Universalist, personal stories, come bring yours.
September 9, 2001
Revs. Nina D. Grey, Marlene R. Walker, and W. David Arksey
Ingathering Sunday and Water Ceremony:
The Many and The One
Take time to gather water which is from (or represents) a special place. In this service for all ages, we will join our separate offerings of water into a common bowl. In this annual ritual on our Ingathering Sunday, we remember that our many paths unite for the sake of love and justice and the recollecting of our beloved community. In Rev. Grey's homily, The Many and The One, she will reflect on the relationship of our individual paths to our shared journey.
September 16, 2001
Rev. Nina D. Grey
A High Holy Days Service:
Waking Up
On this Sunday, our annual marking of the highest holy days of our Jewish heritage, we will turn to some truths of these holy days and ask how they inform our Unitarian Universalist faith journeys. The Jewish High Holy Days suggest it is time to turn again toward a vision of our highest possibilities. We will think about the experience of waking to a new consciousness and we will ask how new awareness can help us in our journey to heal ourselves, life, and the world.
First Forum
Social Justice Unitarian Style
Leader: Bobbi Campbell
The current issues that our denomination is working on and how one can participate.
September 23, 2001
Rev. Nina D. Grey
The Breath of Life
This Sunday follows closely upon the autumnal equinox, that time when light and dark, night and day, are briefly in a kind of balance. Marking this change of seasons gives us an opportunity to celebrate the flow of life, to reflect on the balancing act of breathing in and out, and to think about how breathing relates us to all living beings. Today we turn to our nature-based traditions for inspiration.
First Forum
Leader: Betty Holcomb
First Forums on First Forums
What have we done and how can we to do it better?
September 30, 2001
Rev. Gordon D. Gibson
Small Acts of Great Courage
Rev. Gordon Gibson characterizes the work done by many southern Unitarian Universalists in the civil rights era as small acts that took tremendous courage in that time and place. Gordon took part in the Selma voting rights campaign, was the Unitarian Universalist minister in the state of Mississippi 1969-1984, and used a sabbatical in 2000 to collect oral histories and documents in the South. Since 1985 he has been minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart.
Rev. Nina Grey will be in the pulpit in Elkhart, in this pulpit exchange with Rev. Gibson.