Members of the ASC Book Group will be reporting on our summer book by Bill McKibben. It is subtitled Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Why does McKibben call it a game? How can we be actively engaged? Christina Gibbons, Linda Hay, Peter Gibbons, and Bob Wyckoff will respond to McKibben’s … Continue reading Falter
Fresh from their travels to The Dakotas and multiple Native American reservations, members of the Interfaith Youth Group will share the issues and experiences they’ve encountered during their recent service trip, and express their gratitude for the support All Souls provided to help make it happen. They also hope to facilitate a conversation after the service to deeper … Continue reading “Home From on the Rez”
Our worship leader this morning, Fernando Ona, has been working on issues of complex trauma domestically and globally in his research, teaching and service as an academic at Tufts University. For part of this summer he has been engaged in a clinical pastoral care education unit at a Trauma 1 Hospital in parallel to his global health research work with … Continue reading Creative Transformation
As our busy summer goes whizzing by, we find ourselves already in August. In ancient tradition, the beginning of August is Lammas (or Lughnasadh), the festival of the harvest of first grains, and an acknowledgment of the partnership between human beings and the Divine. This Sunday we celebrate our awareness that we are the instruments … Continue reading Divine Partnership
Drawing on “The Empathy Effect” by Dr. Helen Riess, All Souls member Diana Martha Clark, DMC, MSW, MA will introduce us to the 7 neuroscience-based keys to understanding and increasing empathy. The latest research on how empathy works from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital has led to a powerful system for understanding and … Continue reading “The Empathy Effect”
Here’s how Howard Burrows, longtime friend at All Souls, describes his topic for Sunday’s lay-led service: Don’t You Want to be Saved? An evangelical Presbyterian scientist responds to an earlier sermon from this pulpit entitled, Why I am not a Buddhist. I’ll talk about the Trinity – and its underlying importance to the Unitarians. I … Continue reading “Don’t You Want To Be Saved?”
“If you can talk, you can sing.” (Ghanaian proverb) Do you remember your first favorite song? Is there a song, or work of music, that meant a lot to you? Why? Come join us as we listen and share the music that matters to us. It will be a soul-healthy serving of music to hear, songs to … Continue reading It’s All About the Music!
It’s all about balance, isn’t it? Of course, we want to be an active, engaged church, reaching out beyond our walls to help those in need – community wide, statewide, nationwide, even worldwide. And, of course we know that in order to be of service to others, we must be healthy and strong ourselves. We … Continue reading Care Giving and Caretaking
What does “spirituality” mean in a denomination that does not have a prescriptive theology or liturgy? UU’s can sometimes be rather cerebral about what we believe, but many of us long for a direct experience of transcendence, whether or not we have a name for it. In our Summer Solstice service last week, we shared … Continue reading The Sound of Spirit
The Wheel continues to turn, and the seasons pass. Now is the time to welcome the Summer Solstice. We come together this morning as celebrants, as seekers and companions. We enter into this, the longest day, joyfully, allowing ourselves the beauty of this time together in which we may rest our cares and sorrows, and … Continue reading Summer Solstice and Flower Communion
