Join us this morning for “Religion Is a Poetic Practice,” with guest minister, Rev. Derek Parker. Poetry is a basic human endeavor, and one with religious dimensions. Come and explore. Derek will bring us some help from the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, and the German physicist Max Planck.
Join us this morning for “What Are People For,” with guest speaker Kelsey Timmerman. Regenerative agriculture isn’t an exciting new thing. Regenerative agriculture is an exciting old thing. As it’s been practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years, it is not centered on extraction but on relationships with the natural world; it is not just about farming, but about our relationships with science and technology, each other, and ourselves. While it’s grounded in the soil, it’s about human rights and environmental justice, about diversity versus monocultures, the pursuit of profit versus life. I started to see that thinking regeneratively is about so much more than growing food or checking a few boxes of farming practices. It’s something each of us could practice in our daily lives. It’s about reconnecting with the natural world during a time when many of us prefer to stream shows from the cloud than watch the clouds from a stream.
Join us for “Perpetual Welcome,” with Rev. Joel. How is UUCM doing with offering welcome perpetually? What habits contribute to, or detract from, newer members of UUCM coming to feel like insiders? Join us as we consider how UUCM can offer a perpetual welcome to all regardless of how long they’ve been here.
Join us for “Love Should Not Hurt,” with guest speaker, Moriah Coons. Domestic Violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. Studies show that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime. However, an estimated 80% of domestic assaults go unreported. It is important that we know what domestic violence is, what it looks like, and how we can help those who are being hurt by the people they love. Everyone needs to know that love should not hurt.
Buddhism is practiced today by roughly 500 million people, or 7% of the world's population. Join us as we explore the tenets and varieties of Buddhism.
Reading stories encourages us to enter empathically into the experience of others, including others who are quite different from ourselves. Join us this Sunday for an imaginative journey into the experience of an egret as we reflect on love, loss, and letting go.
Animists see a world that is full of other-than-human persons. For the animist, there is no such thing as inanimate matter, because it is all a part of the complex self-regulating living system called Gaia. Animism is not about the projection of consciousness or agency onto non-human things, but about respect and reciprocity within a more-than-human community.
We will celebrate the earth with Jim’s original songs, readings and personal reflections on Mother Earth or “Gaia” being one living organism. Our “spiritual response” is so timely now, as the spirit of life on earth is in crisis. Jim's uplifting songs provide the balance to the wake-up call, leaving us with vision and inspiration to take the healing into our own hands.
What is the astronomy behind an eclipse? What are the meanings of a total eclipse? Join us as we consider and celebrate the arrival of the special astronomical event about to pass over our heads
British author Paul Anthony Jones describes the Welsh word hiraeth as “a deep, nostalgic, bittersweet wistfulness, or an intense longing to return to something—or someone, somewhere, or sometime—that is now long gone, or perhaps never was.” Join us as we consider how the concept might be of use to Hoosiers in the 21st century.
