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The CLF would like to thank the following congregations who, between March 2015 and March 2016 have taken up collections to support our ministries. Read more →
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Shortly after I watched the full moon slide behind the trees on the ridge outside my cell window, Dusty, a young orange mackerel tabby tomcat, made his morning round meowing to everyone he met what sounded to me a lot like “Good Morning.” Read more →
July-August 2016
A flower blossoms for its own joy. —Oscar Wilde
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The VUU Crew stalks the hallways of GA. Who knows who we’ll corral? Tune in and find out! The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. This is the final episode of the season; The VUU will return in September. This episode first aired June 23, 2016.
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Nate Walker returns to The VUU to talk about his new book “Cultivating Empathy” and moral imagination. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired June 16, 2016.
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John Gibbons meets with the VUU panel to talk about resistance against a planned natural gas pipeline in Boston. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired June 9, 2016.
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The VUU talks with Scotty McClennan about his new book “Christ for Unitarian Universalists.” The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired June 2, 2016.
Join with friends or family to sing this round to celebrate life’s mystery together.
Here are the three parts:
First part: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Second part: Where do we come from?
Third part: Mystery, mystery, life is a riddle and a mystery!
Listen to the video below to learn the melodies with the Orange County Unitarian Universalist Choir.
To hear hundreds of UUs singing this song at General Assembly 2008, watch the first few minutes of this video from morning worship with Rev. Fred Muir.
The lyrics to this song come from the title of one of artist Paul Gaugin’s paintings (you can see the words from the first part of the round, written in French, in the upper left-hand corner):
Song credit: “Where Do We Come From?” by Brian Tate, as included in the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Singing the Journey: A Supplement to Singing the Living Tradition. Copyright 1999 by Brian Tate.
For our theme of Mystery we actually have two people to honor. The first is Rev. Dr. Judith Campbell, a UU minister who writes mystery novels about a UU minister named Olympia Brown. The second, of course, is the original Rev. Olympia Brown, who the character is named for.
The Olympia Brown in the murder mysteries is, like her author, a modern woman. But she shares a courageous spirit and a sense of justice with the historical Olympia Brown.
That Olympia Brown was born in 1835, and she was the first woman in the U.S. to graduate from a regular school for the ministry, and she was ordained into the Universalist ministry as the first woman to be fully ordained and recognized by her denomination.
Olympia Brown served as a minister until the age of 53, when she decided to retire from church work in order to work full time on promoting women’s rights.
Judith Campbell, our mystery writer, has been both a professor and a minister before turning to writing murder mysteries as well as other kinds of literature.
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As a Unitarian Universalist congregation with no geographical boundary, the CLF creates global spiritual community, rooted in profound love, which cultivates wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.