Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Greater Cumberland

January 7th, 10:45 a.m. – Lora Powell-Haney: “Love’s Liberation from ‘Us vs Them’ “

What if there are no enemies or others? We’ll explore radically loving and what that means in a world increasingly divided. What’s possible with Love at the center of our faith?

January 14th, 10:45 a.m. – Rev. Paul Britner: “A Fearless and Searching Moral Inventory”

Beyond the annual exercise of easily expendable resolutions, New Year’s provides an excellent time to undertake a genuine assessment for one’s own self-awareness and self-improvement.

This Sunday’s collection will be donated to the Cumberland Cold Weather Shelter.

January 21st, 10:45 a.m. – JD Stillwater: “Grand Design: Aging, Grandchildren, and Evolution”

What evolutionary purpose is served by living so long after our reproductive years are done? This service explores the spiritual and social fertility of every life stage in a beloved community, an inclusive fertility especially enhanced in our later years. Not likely to be a grandparent himself, JD Stillwater takes the opportunity to scrutinize the grandparenting role, with an eye towards broadening and deepening its power and promise at every life stage.

January 28th, 10:45 a.m. – Rev. Terry Ellen (remotely): “Coming Home”

In general the East and the West have approached religion and spirituality with different assumptions.  Carl Jung said famously that they would eventually have to come together since the human psyche (spirit) is one, East or West.  But recently I find myself somewhere in limbo between them and since this deals with the most important things in life – who we are, what our relation to the universe is, what our meaning here is – I’m trying to find my way home amidst these different takes on reality. I’ll lay out my plight for your considered thoughts.