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During the summer we hold less formal services beginning at 10:00 AM. Please join us for worship. Our regular service schedule and children's RE program will resume on September 12th.
SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE
DATE SERVICE TITLE LEADER(S)
July 4 Folk Music Open Sing Angie Swanger and Carole Kharger
Folk songs and live acoustic music replace regular services on this holiday Sunday. The service is for all ages.
July 11 How Do We Love? Sam Prince
July 18 Margaret Kenedy Knight, Humanist Heroine Douglas Peary
Margaret Kennedy Knight said, "To the Humanist moral behavior is primarily kind, disinterested, self-transcending..." She quoted Voltaire, "... Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. One of the best ways to improve men's behavior is to enlighten their minds..."
July 25 Why Not Be Happy? Maia Lynd
Maia Lynd runs a holistic business called Celebrate Your Light. She has offices in Guilford and in East Haddam, CT.
August 1 Lammas - The First Harvest and Bread Service CUUPS Group
The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPs) leads a celebration of Lammas, the Grain Harvest, with good bread, good company, and three-sister soup! Bring a loaf of your favorite bread to share, along with a brief (two or three minute) story about the bread itself, or, why bread or baking are meaningful to you.
August 8 Spiritual Health and Healing Rev. Rick Klimowicz
Our community minister will reflect on how we may heal not only physically, cognitively and social-emotionally, but also spiritually in order to become more healthy and whole individuals.
August 15 Bring on the Wonder Paula Quenoy
This service will explore the Unitarian Universalist relationship with wonder through words, music, and images.
Paula Quenoy has been a Unitarian Universalist for over 12 years. She lives in Meriden with her husband Edward Iglesias. She is an educator and counselor and enjoys working with the UU Meriden choir.
August 22 A New Age of the Spirit Rev. Dr. Tony Johnson
What we today call "spirituality" did not exist prior to the nineteenth century. Historian Peter van der Veer has documented how spirituality and secularity developed together. In his book The Future of Faith, Harvard Divinity professor emeritus Harvey Cox asserts that we are living in a third age since the start of Christianity. The first age was that of faith, the second of belief, the third and present is the age of spirit. In this sermon I explore the question, Are we living in a new age of the spirit?
The Rev. Dr. Tony Johnson is the newly selected Interim Parish Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden and begins his time with us starting this month. Tony received his Dr. of Ministry Degree this spring with a focus on ministry in multifaith settings. He has been a UU Minister since 1977 and has served congregations in California, New York, and New Jersey in the capacities of settled minister, interim minister, consulting minister, and community minister.
August 29 A Walk In the Woods Kate Miller / Charles Kaplan
Many a UU (think of Emily Dickenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau) has found spiritual inspiration in the natural world. In that spirit, we'll hold this service hiking together in a nearby place of natural beauty (TBA). After some brief words we'll walk together as a group, then split off into two seperate groups - one that will walk in silence, the other where quiet talking and exploring are encouraged. You pick! Dogs welcome. Meet at 10 a.m at the church; back between 12 and 12:30.
September 5 Folk Music Open Sing Angie Swanger and Carole Kharger
Folk songs and live acoustic music replace regular services on this holiday Sunday. The service is for all ages.
September 12 REGULAR 10:30 SERVICE SCHEDULE RESUMES
