A Parking Lot Service: Giving and Receiving From Our Gardens

THIS SUNDAY – Our 2nd PARKING LOT SERVICE, with GARDEN BOUNTIES Sunday, August 9, 2020, 11am   This Sunday, we’ll be doing a brief PARKING LOT service outside our UUFA building, 184 Longview Heights, Athens, Ohio. EXTRA: Feel free bring, or prepare to adopt, extras from our gardens, including vegetables, flowers, bulbs, plants.  We hope you’ll … [Read more…]

This Sunday: Classism

THIS SUNDAY –  CLASSISM Sunday, August 2, 2020, 11am via Zoom  This Sunday we’ll start to examine classism in Unitarian Universalism by exploring our own class backgrounds and potential biases related to class.  Service leader: Katie  Join UUFA’s Zoom with Audio-Only:  Use your phone to dial either 312-626-6799  or  646-876-9923. Then, when asked, enter Meeting ID: 823 6539 … [Read more…]

Caring for One Another: Marietta & Athens

THIS SUNDAY at 11am, please join our “online traveling” to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta (FUUSM). Here’s what’s on their website, here, about their July 26th service: Our Call To Care for One Another FUUSM principles and COVID-19 July 26th 11am Annie Warmke, speaker The members and friends of FUUSM have been a shining example … [Read more…]

This Sunday & Upcoming Food Donation Effort, Too

THIS SUNDAY – YOU ARE ONE GRAIN OF SAND IN THIS COSMIC OCEAN Sunday, July 19, 2020, 11am   In this thought experiment, Brian Richards will take us down three dualistic rabbit holes: space/size, time, and freedom/constraint. The main idea is that we are but a grain of sand in both time and space, and both the … [Read more…]

Parking Lot Gathering!

THIS SUNDAY – PARKING LOT GATHERING! Sunday, July 12, 2020, 11am   This Sunday we’ll be doing a brief PARKING LOT service outside our UUFA building, 184 Longview Heights, Athens, Ohio.  Please park as directed when you arrive.  Wear a mask if you roll down your car windows or step outside your car.  Remember the building … [Read more…]

Hope & More from UUA General Assembly

THIS SUNDAY – HOPE & MORE  Sunday, July 5, 2020, 11am via Zoom  This Sunday our UUA General Assembly delegates, Susan and Katie, will report out to use about their experiences and about what was decided at General Assembly. Some of what they heard was hopeful. As usual, our Zoom service will include interactivity. Please join … [Read more…]

10am Worship with UUA General Assembly, then our 11am Zoom Reflections and Coffee Hour

Sunday Morning Worship with the Largest Annual Gathering of UUs: “Beyond the Water’s Edge”    Sunday, June 28, 2020, at 10:00am NOTE EARLIER TIME!  LINK:  uua.org/ga These are uncertain and volatile times. These are times that call on us to work towards our collective liberation while also tending to our spiritual needs and caring for others. … [Read more…]

Reigniting the Fire of Pride with delfin bautista

REIGNITING THE FIRE OF PRIDE: An Interactive Zoom Sunday Service with delfin bautista  Sunday, June 21, 2020, at 11:00am via Zoom. As the earth moves closer to the Sun on the Solstice, let us use this time to reignite the fires of solidarity, justice, and pride. delfin will explore some of the history and spiritual … [Read more…]

When The Pastoral Becomes The Prophetic

This Sunday: When The Pastoral Becomes The Prophetic. This Sunday we’ll hear wise words from our UUA President, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray published in the latest UU World Magazine, and then share our own stories and plans about caring for others (the pastoral) as we name and address injustices (the prophetic) in 2020.  Sunday, June 14, 2020, at … [Read more…]

A Gift for You & Sunday Plans

FIRST, YOUR GIFT. Because the pandemic, the unrest in cities all over the USA, the unemployment of millions, WATCH THIS, with tissues. https://vimeo.com/417728813 You’ll see Unitarian Universalists from across the country joined the virtual “UU the Vote Thrive Choir” to sing the MaMuse song, “We Shall Be Known.” “It is time now It is time now … [Read more…]