Fred Rogers taught a simple, childlike truth that speaks powerfully to adults: when bad things happen, look for the helpers. This talk draws on Mr. Rogers’ wisdom and the parable of the Good Samaritan to reflect on compassion’s power to break barriers, extend solidarity, and remind us that our neighbors are everywhere around us.

Speaker: Aaron English

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Knowing what we now know about the European discovery of America, does it make sense to continue celebrating Columbus Day?

Speaker: Rev. Peter Connolly

It seems like a simple request to have compassion, yet it is a complex practice. How do we build compassion, be compassionate, act compassionately when seeing so much insensitivity, inhumanity, and apathy around us? Compassion can not only transform but is critical to our survival.

Speaker: Rev. Dr. Michelle Pederson

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Guest Speaker: Rev. Sandra Fees

Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees has served as a UU minister for over 20 years, including 18 years at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Berks County in Pennsylvania. Currently she works with Soul Matters, leading online small groups. She holds Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity degrees from Lancaster Theological Seminary as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature. She resides in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Speakers: Ryan Thomas, Juergen Zirnstein, Laura McGee

How do we live out our values in the context of political winds that don't reflect our values?

Speaker: Ryan Thomas

We celebrate our connections with each other during the annual Water Ritual. Please bring a small amount of water from a place special to you.

Connection to others is a fundamental need: required at birth, comparable to food and water as a human need, and crucial to societal health. Kindness is an act of connection, an expression of compassion, that heals physically, emotionally, mentally, energetically, and spiritually. It heals you. It heals others. It heals us all.

Guest Speaker - Jerilyn

“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without.” Ymber Delecto

In this session we will explore the concepts of acceptance and values, as well as how we can use them in concert to strike a balance between our responsibilities as politically informed indivudals with our desire to accept and connect to those within our families and greater community.

Many of us have experienced "Spiritual Formation" - the formation of belief. But what about "Spiritual Direction?" How do we tune into the still, small, but powerful voice within and know what we should do in life based on the beliefs that we have chosen to honor? It takes Spirit Care .

"Democracy is not a spectator sport.” So said Lotte Scharfman, an Austrian who fled from the Nazis and came to Massachusetts. Though some challenges are common, over time, countries develop a variety of solutions that– ideally — work together to support their democracy. Come on Sunday to hear how Germany has structured its politics, social programs, and education system. Our speakers are Uta and Claus, who were born in Germany and have been frequent visitors there during the last six decades.

The Children’s Story by James Clavell is not for children. It is a chilling tale of our susceptibility to indoctrination, to the ability of others to shape and change our minds. Placed in a classroom it is an extraordinarily relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind and the need for every person to keep questioning and learning. UUCBG students and adults will be featured in this 20 minute play. We look forward to continued discussion during coffee hour.

Join us as we celebrate the beauty that is the summer season, and partake of a century-old Unitarian tradition.

Awe is being in the presence of something vast that transcends our current understanding of the world. Awe moves us to focus on things outside of ourselves. Awe is all around us because awe is always within us. Let us seek awe.

Many of us grew up hearing the story in the Gospels of Jesus ‘healing’ the blind man. Some traditions emphasize that Jesus’s miracle was the most important part of this story. I beg to differ.

Come celebrate the beauty of the Earth during our spring festivals of Earth Day and May Day

We all live with the knowledge that we will die. How do we planning for it and come to terms with it? A panel of church members share their experiences, insights and actions as a result of their time spent in a group learning and reflecting together.

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When Everything Changes: Beginning in Recovery.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Michelle Pederson

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Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Elaine Strawn

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We will lift up some early leaders of the Women's Rights movement whose work continues to inspire us today and gives us hope for a better tomorrow.

Speaker: Ken Kuehn

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We live in a world where cultural and physical relocations ask for constant transformation into the essence of who we are. As the old Cuban wisdom says, "The walls turned on their sides, are bridges." Through the symbolic imagery of House and Home, we share Inside Out: Mirror of Identity and Outside In: Connecting Memories to build a common bridge of humanity.

Speaker: Dr. Miwon Choe

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Fugitive slave, abolitionist, orator, preacher, journalist, editor, writer, and statesman, Frederick Douglass wore many hats in his lifetime to help a nation find meaning in moments of crisis, becoming, in the process, an important symbol of his age. Grounded in a combination of secular and religious ideas and drawn to Unitarianism, Douglass's outlook and interpretation of America's passage from slavery to freedom remains instructive for the current moment.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Andrew Rosa

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Speaker: Laura McGee

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Pantheism is the belief that God and the Universe are the same things rather than separate things. In other words: "God is all and all is God". This doctrine equates God with the forces and natural laws of the Universe.

Speaker: Javonni Burchett

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In our UU tradition, we strive to "put love at the center;" our society as a whole appears to hold power as its central and highest value. Wisdom lies somewhere in between, but where exactly? And what is the wise response when we see and feel power abused? Let's look into this together.

Speaker: the Rev. Peter Connolly

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