Presentation: The Fallacy of Public Safety and Mass Incarceration by Larry Jefferson and David Trieweiler Tuesday, August 3 at 7:00 pm Hosted by Justice not Jails and OUUC Larry says, “Our society has been led to believe that the gains of the Civil Rights Era closed the chapter on Slavery and Jim Crow. This presentation […]
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August’s Environmental Challenge – Energy Saving Home Cooling
The OUUC Environmental Action Team knows we are all in this planet-saving business together, so let’s have some fun and learn some things on our way! Join the OUUC monthly Environmental Action Challenge! Thanks to all who participated in our July Water Conservation Challenge. Send in those tracking sheets by August 13 to enter and […]
Grief
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ~ C.S. Lewis As a culture we don’t tend to be very good at grief, and this past year+ has been a time of grief. We have mourned the loss of loved ones, of trust in institutions, of certainty, and sometimes of hope. What […]
Covid Etiquette
Miss Manners, Judith Martin, says that etiquette is a code of social behavior, the basics of living a civilized life. She writes that there are underlying principles that manners share with morality, such as concern for others. She asserts that behaving like our better selves benefits everyone. Miss Manners identifies a basic question of civilization: […]
“When Can We Worship in the Sanctuary Again?”
Last Sunday, July 11, we took our next step toward offering our worship services in person as well as online. There were 19 of us in the sanctuary: 12 singers, three worship leaders and four Tech Team members. We learned a lot about the tech needs as well as the process of coming together again. […]