Summer is almost here! It feels like we are starting to cautiously re-engage with more in-person events right now, while also still needing to feel safe and make the decision that is right for our families. I imagine this summer will be a patchwork quilt of home-based and community-based activity, with some hanging out time […]
Religious Education
What’s Your Story?
This month’s Soul Matters theme was “Story”, and one of the intriguing exercises in the Soul Matters packet was to tell your life story in one sentence. If you haven’t given it a try, I encourage you to do it. It’s a fun and insightful exercise. What’s Your Sentence? Author and motivational expert, Daniel Pink […]
Reading with Sara
by Sara Lewis The latest issue of UU World magazine should have landed in your mailboxes last week. (Didn’t get one? It’s a perk of membership, and it’s also online at: UU World Magazine | The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association – Liberal religion and life.) In it UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray writes […]
Share the Plate: Quixote Communities
Our Share the Plate recipient for May and June is Quixote Communities, which provides permanent supportive housing in tiny house villages for people experiencing homelessness. OUUC has a long history with Quixote. In February 2007 a group came to the Board and asked that OUUC shelter a homeless encampment that was being moved from a […]
Pondering Our Principles
by Sara Lewis Two weeks ago we had a worship service that reflected on the 7 Principles of UUism (The Seven Principles | UUA.org). Where did these Principles come from? They originate in the 1960 consolidation of the Unitarians and the Universalists. In that process, both denominations felt the need to come to agreement about […]
