Author: Terry Anderson
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Jan. 21,2024 – Plus ça change: David Reich revisits his 2010 satire, “The Antiracism Trainings”
Read more: Jan. 21,2024 – Plus ça change: David Reich revisits his 2010 satire, “The Antiracism Trainings”David Reich has written a funny, incisive novel about race, religion, and office politics. He’s fearlessly unpious, observant, and witty, but he’s also fair to his flawed and often enjoyably irksome characters. His gift for finding nuanced humanity in their semi-good intentions gives warmth and life to this quietly ambitious satire. -Carlo Rotella, author of…
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Jan. 20, 2024-Finding Our Way: Where Our Liberal Religion Must Go From Here
Read more: Jan. 20, 2024-Finding Our Way: Where Our Liberal Religion Must Go From HereIn this evocative service Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof helps us find our way. Somehow, over the past few decades, Unitarians and Universalists have lost our way, often demonstrating the very opposite of our purposes and principles. Now, whatever we are about must include regaining our place as am influential liberal religious voice in the world.…
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Dec. 16, 2023. Blue Christmas
Read more: Dec. 16, 2023. Blue ChristmasDecember’s NAUA worship service theme was: “Blue Christmas.” The holiday season, while filled with light, can create palpable darkness. This service offers a space to hold your grief sacred and to honor any loss or pain you are feeling. Join us for heartfelt music, sacred solace and reflection. This service includes Christmas, Solstice and Hanukah…
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Lessons from the Unitarian Quest for Consensus 1865-1895
Read more: Lessons from the Unitarian Quest for Consensus 1865-1895The Transcendentalist critique of historical Christianity created a rift in the Unitarian church between traditional-minded Unitarian Christians and more radical Free Religionists who felt that the church should embrace a more universal form of religion. Although the National Conference of Unitarian Churches was founded in 1865, it took nearly 30 years for the conference participants…
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Nov. 14, 2023 – Parliament of the World’s Religions by Bruce Knotts
Read more: Nov. 14, 2023 – Parliament of the World’s Religions by Bruce Knotts“We accept all Religions as Truth” are the words spoken by Swami Vivekananda at the founding of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893 in Chicago. Our speaker is Bruce Knotts, a Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Bruce discusses the founding and history of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, as well as…
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Nov. 18, 2023 – The “United” States
Read more: Nov. 18, 2023 – The “United” StatesNAUA Treasurer Bob Simoni shares his insights into the often united, United States Recent Posts Archives
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October 23, 2023. Not Fallen Angels – Reconsidering fashionably cynical attitudes about humanity and civilization
Read more: October 23, 2023. Not Fallen Angels – Reconsidering fashionably cynical attitudes about humanity and civilizationOur speaker this month is the Rev. Mark Gallagher who was a UU parish minister for about 25 years, mostly in Vancouver, Washington, where he now carries on a private practice ministry of preaching, teaching, and spiritual growth work. In this sermon, he overviews the destructive result of cynical attitues and actions. Recent Posts Archives
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Sept. 16, 2023. Thoughts are Free
Read more: Sept. 16, 2023. Thoughts are FreeTopic: “Thoughts Are Free,” from a 500 year old German Folk Song. Bob will talk about how free thought and free expression can be instruments of positive change, whether for major political reasons or religious thought. Topic: “Thoughts Are Free,” from a 500 year old German Folk Song. Bob talks about how free thought and free…