June 5, 2022
Reverend Suzanne Redfern-Campbell
WA: Lee Anzieck
“Slow down, you move too fast…” begins Simon and Garfunkel’s “59th Street Bridge Song.” Summer is on its way, which gives us the chance to move into a more leisurely pattern of life. Can we let ourselves do this?.
June 12, 2022
A Million Ways to Live in the West (or Anywhere)
Brad Rutledge
WA: Don Reef
It was 2013. Brad was fresh from the end of his second marriage, excelling at a career that didn't bring him joy, and staring down the impending (and ominous) 60th anniversary of his birth. He listened to his heart and leapt, leaving Michigan behind and moving to Colorado, a place that the universe had been nudging him toward all his life.
"Wherever you go, there you are," the old expression says. Maybe. But sometimes change is a catalyst that lets the inner journey ripen, that lets one live with grace and gratitude in a world that seems increasingly chaotic, harsh, and divided. In his talk, Brad will share lessons from his inner journey with candor, wit, and love.
Join us on the 12th to welcome back an old friend or to make a new one.
June 19, 2022
Reverend Suzanne Redfern-Campbell
WA: Mary Temple
In Praise of Frolicking
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FACES (FUNdraising Awesome Creative Event Schemers)
The CUUB garage sale is this weekend come by and check it out! Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9 to 3!
The FACES team would appreciate extra help through June 10th with clean-up.
Please contact the team; Stella Jay, Skip Getz-Walsh, Chris Hilbrandt, Lee Ren, Terry Chinn or Michelle Byrd for assistance or any questions.
CUUB Road Rally
The CUUB Road Rally has been postponed. We are working on a new date, we will keep you posted.
CUUB Meditation Sangha resumes
We are pleased to announce that CUUB will be resuming their meditation Sangha starting in person following CUUB COVID policy on Thursday, June 9th at 630 p.m. and every second and fourth Thursday through August.
Brenda Lindsay, a friend of CUUB, trained through Brown University As a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, has generously volunteered to lead the Sangha.
The MBSR secular program, that Brenda was trained to teach, was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD at the UMass Medical Center in 1979 to optimize one's ability to face stress, pain, and illness and make sustainable change across one's lifespan.
Ministers Corner
It was a joy last month, after 8 months of Zooming, finally to be at CUUB in person! I’m very grateful for Zoom and the relationships it has made possible over the last two years. But I hadn’t fully realized the losses that come with seeing three-dimensional human beings on a two-dimensional screen.
There was something special – even revelatory - about walking into my first in-person event, which was a gathering of the Pastoral Care Team, and greeting these beloveds, whom I thought I already knew, in the flesh. The pleasure of these encounters continued throughout my visit, especially when I was able to see so many of you in CUUB’s beautiful building. Heart-felt thanks to all of you for the kindness and hospitality you extended me during the week.
From Michigan I flew east, to visit my sister Mary in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. After a few days’ catching up with family and friends, Mary and I drove south to Cape May, NJ, where we became immersed in a Road Scholar program, “Birding Cape May.” Accompanied by our excellent guides Dave, Paul, and Brett, we spent four full days outdoors, walking along shorelines, and in meadows, woodlands, and wetlands. On the last day, we were taken on a boat excursion through the Cape’s back bays.
We added many species to our Life Lists during this program. More important, though, we learned something of “mindful birdwatching.” In other words, we learned to wait in patient stillness, not expecting any particular result, but allowing birds to appear in their own time, and sometimes surprise us. Often during the week, I was reminded of what Wendell Berry called “the peace of wild things.”
Heartbreak interrupted this peace midweek, as we got the news of the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX. I’ve been to Uvalde more than once. Chuck and I used to drive from Las Cruces to visit his grandson in San Antonio; when we reached Uvalde, we knew we were getting close. Memories of those trips, combined with the resemblance of kids in South Texas to kids in New Mexico, brought this tragedy close to home for me. “When will our nation wake up from this madness?” I asked myself, as so many of us have asked hundreds of times over the years. The answer is clear enough: The nation will wake up when ordinary citizens, who overwhelmingly support sensible gun regulation, are as well organized as the weapons manufacturers and their minions in the NRA and in Congress.
The horror of Robb Elementary stayed on our minds all week, but it didn’t erase the peace and beauty we were finding in the wilds of Cape May. It seemed we could hold our sorrow and anger together with the beauty we were experiencing daily. This reminded me, once again, that seeking “the peace of wild things” doesn’t have to be an escape. It can lead us back to the human world with renewed energy and determination for the work that needs to be done.
Love and blessings,
Rev. Sue
Welcome to the Board and a thank you (departing members & new roles)
We welcome Erika Warner (member at large) & Mike Kelly (VP) to our board of directors. We also thank Nate Warner & Hank Firek for their services to CUUB's governance and Jeanette Darbe who is now our President. Continuing to serve are Jim Dowd (Treasurer), Alice Andrews (Secretary) and Karen Sanderson & Michelle Byrd (both members at large).
Please welcome and support our Board of Directors.
Hello CUUB Leaders!
As promised at our Annual Meeting, the Nominating team is now functioning as a Leadership Development Team and our first order of business is to conduct a Communication Styles Workshop for CUUB leaders. All Board Members will be invited, and there is room for up to 20 total participants in this interactive, fun and engaging workshop facilitated by Mary Temple. In this workshop you will complete an assessment that will provide insight about styles of communicationw they impact our relationships with one another. This training compliments the workshop on conflict recently conducted by Rev. Sue.
We are looking at doing this workshop live at CUUB on a Saturday in July - the date will be announced soon!
Promote the Vote 2022 Fundraiser
Lee Anzicek and Jim Dowd are holding a fundraiser at CUUB on Saturday at 10 AM, June 11th to raise money for Voters Not Politicians (VNP) and their efforts in the Promote the Vote 2022 campaign to get a proposal on the ballot in November to enshrine voter's rights and protections in the Michigan constitution.
Did you know that our right to vote in Michigan is not in our constitution?
For the price of a drink and dinner in Brighton you can accelerate VNP’s efforts to protect voter’s rights in Michigan forever as a constitutional amendment. Now there is some value!
Just open the invite you all should have received and click on RSVP to donate and register. If you did not receive an invite or it is lost in your email you may contact Jim Dowd at treasurer@cuub.org and you will receive a new invite in your email.
I hope to see you at 10 AM on Saturday, June 11th in the CUUB Sanctuary for our program with Nancy Wang and Jamie Lyons-Eddie.
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** Current Building COVID Precautions
CUUB COVID Precautions & Building Entrance Policy
Revised May 15, 2022.
Note:CUUB is checking infection and hospitalization rates on COVID Act Now and the CDC COVID status by county websites.
As rates change our precautions will be revised and posted on the building entrances.
As a community grounded in covenant - grounded in our promises to one another within the context of community - we will be approaching this new health and safety expectation as a covenantal understanding.
In the spirit of allowing all our members and friends to gather safely, in-person, in community, we are adopting the following (temporary) policy with regards to building entry and use:
The following precautions apply to all meetings, services, and events that take place on CUUB property:
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Masking is required indoors for everyone over the age of 2 when in the building.
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Hand sanitizer and extra masks will be readily available throughout the building.
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Wrist bands are available to communicate comfort level with interaction with others. Green means approaching, shaking hands and hugging are fine; Yellow means talking together is fine but no physical touch; Red means distance yourself to talk and no physical touch.
Additional Restrictions, Precautions and Recommendations:
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Sanctuary seating is pre-set with chair groups for social distancing of 6 feet.
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When speaking from the podium during joys and sorrows masks should not be removed.
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The Cantor may sing from the podium without a mask providing a COVID test is done on the day of the service and is negative.
***In-person attendance is strictly a personal choice and as such, each individual is ultimately responsible for their conduct and personal safety.
These expectations will be posted on CUUB’s entryways.
Thank you for your intended cooperation and grace to keep our CUUB Community safe and well!
Communication News
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Future CUUB News Publication Schedule***
Need updates or additions to CUUB News just send the information to news@cuub.org before 5PM the day before the newsletter publications date.
June 3rd & 17th
July 1st, 15th & 29th
August 12th & 26th
September 9th & 23rd
October 7th & 21st
November 4th & 18th
December 2nd, 16th & 30th
***subject to change
