UUFF’s Hungry Book Club will meet at 6pm at Susan Fox’s home (directions follow) to discuss “Mindless Eating” by Brian Wansink. This will be a potluck as usual. The book we will be reading for the November 13 meeting will be “Blue Zones” by Dan Buettner. The book club is open to all. Reading the book is recommended, but is not a requirement. Read More »
Join us October 23-25 at UUFF, for a wonderful workshop opportunity for committed couples seeking to deepen and enrich their relationships. Please feel free to contact us with any questions, and to sign up! We have space for 8 participating couples and the cost is $150 per couple. Cathy or Scott at 479-6854 or contact us by email and we’ll forward the message to them.
The grace period is officially over: our newsletter, The Northern Log, will go electronic in November. The link to download the PDF newsletter is sent out once a month on our Announcements email list. If you do not currently get UUFF emails or if you wish to continue receiving a paper copy of the newsletter, keep reading. Read More »
UUFF’s Hungry Book Club will be reading the following books starting in April 2009 in the order listed. It is up to each member to acquire the books for each month. Hosts will be announced several weeks before each meeting. Call Kathy (456-3319) or contact us if you would like to host the book club meeting one month. Read More »
Regularly check the This Sunday page to find out about upcoming services or listen to podcasts of select past services. Upcoming services and events also appear on the home page of this site and are listed on our online calendar. (Are you a Google Calendar user? You can subscribe to the UUFF calendar.) You can also join our general announcements email list which will send you a link each month to download the current newsletter. (Print copies of the newsletter are available in the fellowship’s foyer.) If you use an RSS reader or Live Bookmarks, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for this site. Finally, the Faith section of Friday’s Fairbanks Daily News Miner usually carries a short notice about Sunday’s UUFF service.
We have created a collaborative Google map to help coordinate car pooling for Lo Carbon Sunday – or other UUFF services, meetings or events. Click on the placemarkers to see names and phone numbers of others interested in ridesharing. Read More »
Send in this form and we will add you to UUFF’s ridesharing map. (Note: Use this form only for general ridesharing offers or needs. If you are only looking to car pool to a specific Lo Carbon Sunday, use the Comment link on the Ridesharing post for that Sunday on the Lo Carbon Sunday page.) Read More »
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Mar)
The Innocent Man by John Grishom (non-fiction) (Feb)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Jan)
Freakanomics (Dec)
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama (Nov)
The Glass Castle (Oct)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Sep)
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug)
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet (Jul)
Blink: The Power of Thinking w/o Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Jun)
A Land Gone Lonesome by Dan O’Neill (local author) (May)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Apr)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Mar)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Feb)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Jan)
Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup (Dec)
The Kids from Nowhere by George Guthridge (Nov)
Flight by Sherman Alexi (Oct)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson with David Oliver Relin (Aug and Sept)
1421: The Year China Discovered America (Jul)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Jun)
Cold Country (May)
(No book for April)
Mutant Messages Down Under by Marlo Morgan (Mar)
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson (Feb)
March by Geraldine Brooks (Jan)
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (Nov)
Yank by Ted Ellsworth (Oct)
Walking My Dog, Jane by Ned Rozell (Sept)
(May)
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner (Apr)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtnay (Mar)
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(Jan)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Hadden (Dec)
The Kite Runner (Nov)
#1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Oct)
Alaskan’s Die Young by UUFF author Susan Johnson (Jun)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A citizen’s guide to hope in a time of fear, Paul Rogat Loeb, ed.
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (Feb)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Jan)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Dec)
Murder on the Yukon by Sue Henry (Nov)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Oct)
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Sep)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (Jul)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monke Kidd (Jun)
So Many Enemies, So Little Time by Professor Elinor Burkett (May)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Apr)
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (Mar)
Naked in Baghdad (Feb)
The Ecumenical Cruise and Other Three-Legged Chicken Tales by Walter Benesch (Jan)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feinman by Richard Feinman
Red China Sea by Jan Wong
Tuck Everlasting (video)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
LAMB: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
Kinship of All Things: The Bond Between All Living Things by Latham Foundation
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Good Omens by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Who Am I This Time?A short story by Kurt Vonnegut
A Painted House by Michael Doogan
The Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita
Fairbanks: The Gold Rush Town that Beat the Odds by Dermot Cole
Through the Eye of the Glacier by Michael Pollen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Reading the Water
Bless Me Ultima by Anaya
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
84 Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Household Gods Judith Tarrand and Harry Turtledove
Preschool RE will meet for their usual gathering and play time. Elementary will be talking more about how sports reflect our UU values with Bre and Marilyn. Middle School will meet this week, so make sure to come and start your lessons on the “Gospel according to the Simpsons” with Michael. Remember that the Middle School group meets on the First Sunday of the Month. YRUU will not be meeting this week. Note: Preschool is still looking to hire one more youth attendant, please contact Bre Griffin (490-4604) or email us if you are interested in working some Sundays.
A Nonviolent Communication Workshop will meet Thursdays at UUFF starting October 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. This workshop opens pathways of speaking at home, in the workplace and the community to arrive at win/win solutions and make for compassionate relations. Call 457-8086 or email Suzanne Osborn to order a book and workbook. Also, there is a signup sheet on the bulletin board.
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