This Sunday: Does working with your hands make you feel better and behave better? Does it give you a sense of autonomy, but also a feeling of responsibility for your work and for the material world? And ultimately, does it make you a better citizen? The virtues of working with your hands have been extolled by poets and philosophers. At the same time manual work is often seen as blue collar, low status, or menial. What does working with your hands mean to you? John Peirce will explore the spiritual dimensions of manual work and provide a brief opportunity for discussion at the end.

This Sunday: Sometimes being a good citizen means speaking up when those in charge have fallen from the path (Rev. Sarah Schurr). This service is in partnership with the “Climate Change Discussion: Turn Learning Into Action” sponsored by the Green Team after the service.

SPECIAL AFTER-SERVICE DISCUSSION [part of the UU Green Team's 2011 Climate Change Discussion & Action Series]

Join environmental writer-activists Nancy Lord and Marybeth Holleman for a sharing from their works and a facilitated discussion to explore the 7 UU principles as they relate to Climate Change, oil development, and environmental justice.  Nancy, author of the new book Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North, and Marybeth, author of Heart of the Sound: Paradise Found and Nearly Lost, will join in conversation with former KUAC newsperson Robert Hannon and the audience. A book signing will follow.

This Sunday: In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Rev. Schurr will share the proud and the not so proud legacy the Unitarian Universalists have in the field of Civil Rights and the African American Community

This Sunday: Mindfulness, being thankful, mediation, and prayer. How do these ideas work into a modern Unitarian Universalist life? Can we pray if we are not sure who or what we are praying to? Speaker: Rev. Sarah Schurr