At the recent UUFH Board Retreat at Tigg’s Pond Retreat Center in Green River, the Board chose to focus on two major portions of the newly completed Strategic Plan for our Fellowship. This year, we want to focus on visibility and a facilities plan. Visibility is a many-faceted concept. To be visible in the community involves such […]
Because of my background as an archivist, it is understandable that I am drawn to documents and the belief that words on paper (or clay tablets, papyrus, or animal skins) can and do have enduring value. A classic example is the Magna Carta. Within several months this remarkable document will be 800 years old. This Great Charter […]
A New Leaf One of my favorite worship rituals takes place at the beginning of the year. It is when we welcome the New Year with paper made during the service from notes that we wrote on scrap paper. As the January 6, 2013 Order of Service stated, “We all have different intentions—to carry on important work […]
Winter Memories I lived the first 23 years of my life in Schenectady, New York. Located 150 miles north of New York City, my hometown was in the heart of the Snow Belt. The average annual snowfall total was over 90 inches. Through my eyes as a child, snow was a wonderful gift of nature, […]
I was moved to tears during the impromptu celebration at Sunday worship on October 12. Many of us were overwhelmed with joy when the ban on same sex marriage was lifted. One of my proudest moments as a Unitarian Universalist was during the campaign of our Fellowship against the same sex marriage ban which became […]