Speaker: Caitlin Colgrove

Enough

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Enough
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Ours is a wealthy country, and yet one in which the hunger to have more is never satisfied. It can be so difficult to get off the consumerist merry go round, even when we know it is only taking us in circles. How can we reach a point of Enough? Special Music: Veronika Agranov Dafoe, piano

Life In An Institution (It’s Better Than It Sounds!)

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Life In An Institution (It’s Better Than It Sounds!)
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James Luther Adams, whose “Five Smooth Stones” of liberal religion we’ve been exploring, was a great believer in institutions. This is perhaps the greatest challenge to people in our spiritual communities, especially since the iconoclasm of the 60s and the profound (and warranted) mistrust in civic and religious institutions that has marked our age. If Adams was right that we need institutions in order to enact goodness on a grand scale, then how are we to create institutions that we can trust? Music: Brocelïande

Preaching from the Housetops

The fiddler on the roof is a well-known symbol for the desire to find joy and happiness in very uncertain times such as we are now experiencing. Likewise, a preacher on the roof is a person who always remembers who sent him/her and the message to his/her people. How do we, Transylvanian Unitarians try to take the challenge and speak out? Special Music: Eric Leong, violin