From September through June, we use Soul Matters themes for our Sunday Services, Religious Education, and Chalice Circles. As we wait for the church year to begin, this August we’ve chosen Thresholds as our transitional theme. Check out this beautiful reading to start us off. By Arlen Goff Thresholds.We cross them every day.From room to room,from … Continue reading Thresholds (August 2023)
What an amazing event! Lots accomplished: Tree maintenance Parking lot trimming Weeding Alsop Fellowship Hall floor maintenance Massive clean-out of storage Medicine Wheel weeded and cared for What else? Email pastor@uufm.net with more accomplishments and photos!
Delight despite it all It is a delight to serve as the called minister here at UUFM. Thank you to all the members who participated in the May 7th Congregational Meeting to vote on the call. It was a momentous decision for the Fellowship, which has never had this kind of relationship with a minister … Continue reading A note from Pastor Isa June 2023
Creativity beyond the secular “All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthis Change. Godis Change.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Black feminist science fiction writer Immersing in our monthly theme of Creativity, I’ve been thinking of the theologian Henry Nelson Wieman. He wrote extensively of the “Creative Good,” a process … Continue reading A note from Pastor Isa May 2023
Some resistance is futileSome resistance is fertile September through June, our Chalice Circles, Sunday Services, and Religious Education classes draw from monthly themes we get from Soul Matters, a UU community of collaborators. This month’s theme, resistance, lends itself to two interpretations. First is political resistance — organized resistance to injustice and oppression. Many of … Continue reading A note from Pastor Isa — April 2023
From our friends at Soul Matters: …it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more.–Marge Piercy, from The Low Road Out of all our themes this year, resistance is among the most complex. But it also may be the most simple. Let’s start with the complexity. Sometimes resistance … Continue reading The Path of Resistance (April 2023)
It makes sense to me that our collaborators at Soul Matters chose Vulnerability to follow February’s theme of Love. To love deeply and truly is to make ourselves vulnerable. Since love is the center of our theology, there’s really no way around it. Whether it is a private conversation we have with someone who shares … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa — March 2023
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. … Continue reading The Path of Vulnerability (March 2023)
Love at the Center The theme this month for our congregation — and for many across the country — is Love. Although it coincides with Valentine’s Day and our young kids are taking a deep dive into our sexual education curriculum OWL (see Sandy’s post), we’re not just talking about romantic love. Love is at … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – February 2023
It began from the beginning, for most of us. Came in the form of family. A bloodline that brought us into being, and at its best, allowed us to bloom. Then sent us on our way with courage, and a reminder tucked into the pocket of our heart which read, “You can always return, … Continue reading Path of Love (February 2023)
