The globalization of a growth-oriented economic culture is exterminating life on Earth. So, is it smart to make a destructive system smarter, more sophisticated, and more efficient? Most classroom practices are designed as if the answer to these questions would be “yes.”Iñaki Pradanos will help us rethink these questions and propose strategies for challenging inertia … Continue reading Sunday ZOOM Service:  “Imagining Postgrowth Futures (and Why We May Enjoy Them)”

Farah Khorsanarian Sanchez will speak to us about the Baha’i faith. Service leader:  Linda Amspaugh.

“Visit” to Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church for a virtual, live-streaming worship service, via Zoom, beginning at 10:30 am.  Rev. Bill Gupton will lead a reflection on “This Easter Sunday.”  You can find a LINK to the service on Sunday morning at Heritage’s website: huuc.net.  Virtual doors will open at 10:25 am.

Ostara, Pruim, Palm Sunday, Holi . . . In many religious traditions, spring holidays commemorate a time of rebirth and renewal.  Join Diane Wright as we look at the wide variety of spring holidays, and the lessons and celebrations they might inspire in our own lives.  Service Leader:  Valerie Elliott

Former HUUC member Terry Perlin will join us this morning.  Bravery is often thought to be an ethical virtue.  It’s easier to speak about than to know up-close. This talk describes two cases of bravery, one of which unfolded not too far from where we are “meeting” this morning.  And the other, though occurring thousands … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service – “Bravery and Idealism:  Two Cases in Law/Medicine/Ethics”

When we shared recipes for the 2019 Thanksgiving service, the conversation turned to pie.  We realized that Pi Day 2021 falls on a Sunday – what a great day to share pie with one another!  Undeterred by the pandemic, we will do just that. Contact huucoffice@gmail.com if you are willing and able to help make … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service – “Pi(e) Day” with Celia Ellison. 

Dr. Lindsey Rustad is a botanist and forester who will be joining us from Maine. An expert in extreme weather and climate change, she will engage us in what is the single greatest environmental threat facing the planet today. “Scientists, like myself, live in the realm of facts and knowledge, but it is the arts … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service – “Confronting Climate:  From Facts to Empathy to Action.” 

On this day in 1935, the scientific team of Wallace Carothers invented a new polymer substance. Years later, Dupont would call the substance “nylon,” and less than one hundred years later the substance is found throughout our homes, schools and businesses. What are the implications of an invention like this one? Come join Diane Wright … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service – A UU Looks at the Invention of Nylon: Not as Smooth as You Might Think.

Luminescence has been created as a distinctly UU holiday to honor the many paths our faith offers for attaining spiritual fulfillment and to celebrate the freedom our faith provides each individual in seeking their own personal truth. This annual service will be modified in many ways from the traditional Luminescence service. I hope that each … Continue reading Sunday Zoom Service – Luminescence

Doris Bergen will review the types of love identified long ago by the Greeks (Eros, Philia, Agape, Pragma, Philautia, Mania, Storge, and Ludus) and explore what the relevance of each type may be for UUs at this particular time period.