Committed to Joy
Rev. Julie Brock and Trisha Ibrahim
Sunday, March 14th, 2021 10:30 EST
Happy anniversary, it has been a year since the pandemic closed us down. In a way it is a miracle we are still here, gathering together week in and week out. It has taken a commitment! We know that we are committed to our community, our values, to showing up where we are needed. We have proven it over the past year. So this year, may we commit ourselves to joy. Let's join in with our young ones and have a silly fun, joyful day and commit to more smiles, laughter, stories, music, and FUN! Bring a white piece of paper and a marker if you would like to join the young ones in their spiritual practice.
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Healthy Masculinity
Lee Anzicek
Sunday, March 21th, 2021 10:30 EST
Lee Anzicek has been involved in men’s groups and with mythopoetic men’s work for 30 years. He has attended many workshops and has facilitated more than a dozen men’s retreats.
His topic will be “Healthy Masculinity”; what it looks like, how to cultivate it and its importance for our collective life on planet earth right now.
During his presentation, Lee will invite participants to share comments and ask questions, via the chat function. If there is something you’d like to know, or share, please keep it very brief and bring it with you to the service.
Sunday Worship Service via Zoom
Reading Our Truth in the Words of Others
Rev. Julie Brock
Sunday, March 28th, 2021 10:30 EST
What makes the great poets great? A great vocabulary? Mastery of a particular form of verse? The ability to vividly describe a place or object? All of those things help, but I would argue that poetry is the ability to render nearly universal truth into words. Great poetry has us agreeing with its words beyond logic or aesthetics, but with our whole self. Suddenly we know how to describe something we've seen or experienced but has, as of yet, been ineffable. Today we will look at three great works of poetry and see if we can't identify what it is that we nearly universality yearn for in our great poetic works.
Sunday Worship Service via Zoom
Look for the Zoom link on cuub.org!
Spiritual Exploration (SE) News brief
What's happening in SE this week? Follow Trish's posting on our CUUB Website and Facebook Group. https://www.cuub.org/
There will be no Sunday morning zoom class at 9:30, join us for our Multigen Service March 14th - Commitment to Joy - Fun and Interactive Service.
In your activity box or just grab a large piece of paper, illustrate or write what brings you joy. Will we share our poster during service.
Ministerial Search Update
The Search Team is in the Pre-Candidating phase, where we have several opportunities to interact with our 3 top prospective candidates over the course of a weekend. Then we will meet to discern who is our choice, and send the ranking of the 3 candidates to the UUA. They similarly gather information from the candidates as to their choice of congregation, and then make a match. This intermediary step allows us to be confident that the person we send an offer to on April 1 will accept it.
Our final candidate will then visit CUUB virtually over the Candidating Week at the end of April. A contract will be negotiated and we will get to know them, culminating in a Sunday Service provided by them. Following that service will be a congregational vote on whether to call this minister.
Did You Know?
Past CUUB News issues are available on our website? How cool is that. Click here to go to that page of CUUB.org
*** You're invited ***
CUUB Spring Cleanup
Happy (Almost) Spring!
CUUB Facilities would like to invite those willing to join us for our first grounds cleanup day at CUUB on Friday, April 9, from 4pm to 7pm. This will be a socially distanced event. Since we are outdoors, masks are optional unless we are in close proximity to each other.
Plenty of different projects for all abilities and ages. We have tools but you may bring your own. We do suggest you bring your own refreshments and chairs as there is a good chance a bonfire may breakout at the end if you wish to stay for some distanced social interaction.
