How Life Experiences Affect Our Perspective and Use of Labels
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade. Babysitting is available, and babies and toddlers are also welcome in our sanctuary during services.
We build skyscraper forts out of the labels we use to characterize “others,” and hurl epithets and worse at “them.” Yet we are all members of the same species, live on the same planet, and have the same basic biological needs. How do we reconcile the immense barriers we’ve created between individual subsets of us and them with the basic facts of our earthly human existence?
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade.
Computer software makes suggestions on what we might want to watch or buy, helps doctors make diagnoses, and judges issue sentencing, even helps vehicles on the road drive more safely. While the perception of computers is that they are making unemotional, unprejudiced assessments, they are based on data provided by humans, and so can hide and perpetuate bias we are unintentionally feeding them.
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade.
Continuing with our summer series, we will investigate labels of religious affiliations. What do we gain from these labels? What are the dangers that can come from these labels? How do our principles guide our actions when confronted by labels?
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade. Babysitting is available, and babies and toddlers are also welcome in our sanctuary during services.
Just as in viniculture and musical culture, our own personal ‘Terroir’ nurtures and informs us, providing our lives with tastes of joy, sorrow and wonder with every sip.
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade. Babysitting is available, and babies and toddlers are also welcome in our sanctuary during services.
We use labels to make sense of the world. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? This summer, our speakers will explore many of the labels we use, both for ourselves and others, and their impact on how we see and treat the world.
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade. Babysitting is available, and babies and toddlers are also welcome in our sanctuary during services.
After five years as UUCL’s Treasurer, Marco shares parting thoughts and the things he has learned along the way. More than just numbers, facts, and figures, how can we work together to truly be greater than the sum of our parts?
In Gardens of Democracy, authors Lui and Hanauer argue that Western institutions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory of evolution. In observing nature, we see that the most vibrant ecosystems have the most biodiversity and cooperation. How might religious communities thrive by making room for “theodiversity”?
Guest Rev. Jon Coffee is a regional coordinator with Meadville Lombard Theological School.
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade.
Reminder: We are now on our summer schedule with one worship service at 10:00 am. Members, please stay for the Annual Congregational meeting and potluck at 11:15, immediately following the service.
Note: Religious Exploration is available during the service for children K-5th grade. Babysitting is available, and babies and toddlers are also welcome in our sanctuary during services.
NOTE: This Sunday we begin our summer schedule that offers a single service at 10:00 a.m. Religious Exploration is available during the service, and children are always welcome in the sanctuary as well.
