UUFM joins the Unitarian Universalist La Crosse for worship this morning. Voting to Preserve Democracy: UU the Vote, La Crosse Style: UU La Crosse sought out and received funding from the La Crosse Community Foundation to do voter registration work in La Crosse County between March and November, 2022. Drawing on UUA’s 1st, 5th, and 6th Principles … Continue reading Voting to Preserve Democracy: UU the Vote, La Crosse Style
This week we explore our responsibility as a faith community to address a wounded world, including recognition of Earth Day and the UUA proposed 8th Principle. Rev. Rita preaching. This is an In Person & Zoom service. Our Zoom Worship Meeting opens at 10:10am, with informational slides at 10:20 and worship beginning at 10:30. There are … Continue reading Awake to the Woeful World-Option C and 8th Principle
“I have learned to trust those who are witnesses rather than gurus, those who express their confusion as well as their knowledge, and those who share their suffering along with their joy.” – Rev. David O Rankin Unitarian Universalists often aren’t very good at sharing our faith. We don’t trust ourselves to explain the complexities … Continue reading Trusting the Good News
Rumi reminds us that “love is the bridge between you and everything.” Yet we are not automatically lovers of ourselves, other people, the world. Love doesn’t just happen. So how do we make love an action rather than a beautiful but potentially empty sentiment? How do we learn to cross bridges of love?
For many of us, making and sustaining meaningful and generative relationships is the focus of much of our life energy. Marriages, friendships, mentorships, leaderships, parenthoods all simultaneously nurture us and are nurtured by us in ways that involve negotiating expectations and differences. Some say that in order to remain healthy, relationships are fed and fed … Continue reading Nurturing the ‘Third Thing’
August Theme: Principles The interconnected web of existence can be one of beauty and love but it also means that we all feel some degree of the pain and evil in the world. How do we make sense of evil? A wise professor once told me, “A theology of evil is as unique to a … Continue reading “Creating Our Own Theologies: Making Sense of Evil”
August Theme: Principles Bukata will talk about the power of embracing our authentic selves and the authenticity of others, how an actively connected community fosters this and the vibrant lived experience this produces for all of us. About our speaker: The most important thing about Bukata Hayes is that he is the son of Dia … Continue reading Our “This is Me” Existence
July Theme: Growing Our Souls Being and Becoming Although sometimes it doesn’t feel this way, nothing about who or what we are (as a person, a people, a nation, a world) remains permanently set or fixed. We, from the micro to the macro, are in a perpetual state of formation and change. Part of this … Continue reading Being and Becoming
So, after almost nine months, with a lot of effort (made easier by the great story we can tell about ourselves), we’ve actually done it-we looked for a minister who would be the best partner for us as we grow still further in nourishing our spirits, broadening our minds, nurturing the earth, and building our … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of a New Minister
Every year we try to correct our flaws, be better people, strive for perfection. Some of us see ourselves as perfectionists. But, is perfection what we need? Or someone, something, that’s good enough? The Rev. Suzanne Wasilczuk is a 2007 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. Her previous career was as a registered … Continue reading Finding Our Balance Point: On Being ‘Good Enough’
