We need not think alike to love alike.

The next Chalice Circle series will begin on October 28th.  It will meet on Wednesday evenings for 8 weeks. Contact Mary Ann Borchert (479-2087), Marilyn Richardson (451-6381), or Jeff Merkel (479-8717) to join this Chalice Circle or if you have questions.  We hope you’ll join us.

There will be a list will be set out in the foyer for updating your information.  Please proof your items and let us know of any changes that need to be made.

Once again, UUFF will be sponsoring its own KUAC Pledge Drive to support our underwriting habit.  For most of the past decade UUFF has sponsored Weekend Edition on Saturday and Sunday mornings. We can afford to do this by laundering your KUAC donations through the Fellowship. If you will be giving to KUAC anyway, consider making your donation through the Fellowship. (If you weren’t planning on giving to KUAC this year, please consider it. You can help two great organizations at once.) Here’s how it works. Read More »

UUFF has signed up to answer phones at KUAC on Saturday, October 24, from 7:00 to 10:00 am. (Note: That’s the 2nd weekend of the pledge drive.) We’ll be looking for 4 people to take pledge calls. Contact us if you are interested. We’ll send a confirmation email in return with more information.

Remember to get your completed Registration form (if your child has never been registered in the RE program) or check that your Registration information is complete, as well as your child’s Safety and Behavior Covenant turned in to Bre or the RE table. As soon as I receive that information, your child will have a name tag to wear on Sunday mornings. Also, make sure to sign your child into the attendance notebook before services start so we have an idea of how many children will be in each class. Read on to find out what each class is doing this week. Read More »

UU Best Practices – A collection of “best practices” for common elements of Sunday UU services based on the thoughtful observations of Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd. Connie Barlow and her husband, Rev. Michael Dowd, have been travelling the U.S. and Canada since April 2002, presenting guest sermons and talks celebrating a sacred understanding of evolution (through mainstream science) in Unitarian Universalist and other churches. They’ve put this list of exemplary practices together based on their travels to over 150 UU congregations.

UUA’s WorshipWeb includes a searchable collection of prayers, meditations, readings, and words to open or close your service. Entire services are also available.  See  Opening Words |  Meditations | Chalice Lightings | Closings | Readings

Global Chalice Lightings – Worship resources from the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU). Includes a monthly series of globabl chalice lightings (in many languages) as well as sermons and other program materials.

Just Google on “UU Meditations” – Try including your theme in the search term. Remember to credit whoever’s words you use, no matter where you find them!

Books of meditations by UU ministers are available from Beacon Press and Skinner House Books. We have a small library you can check out, or buy some new ones and donate them to the library if you wish.

UUpdates.net – UUpdates.net is an RSS feed aggregator for all things UU on the Web including the personal and professional blogs of UU ministers and seminarians. (There’s also News for UUs and other Online Resources.) It’s easy to use even if you have never heard of an RSS whatyamacallit before. There’s a good filter to narrow down your search for inspiration. If you find sites you especially like, you can create a custom “My Sites” feed that shows you only headlines from those sites you’re interested in following. We use UUpdate.net to generate the UU News and UU Reflections headlines that appear in the sidebar on uuff.org.

“Books are one of the first places where knowledge and history are kept, and we go back to build on that knowledge and experience. To censor or block published word keeps society from possible growth.”  - Kimmetha Herndon

There is nothing quite like banning a book, or declaring it dangerous, to increase that book’s sales. Sometimes however, nobody notices and the banned book stays lost to a school, library, or community. Let us celebrate our right to the power of literature and make known the dangers that exist when restraints are imposed on access to information in a free society. Presenter, June Pinnell-Stephens. Lay Leader, Jeanne Olson. Accompanists, Laurel Holmes & Susan Grace.