115: Music That Moves the Soul
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The VUU team talks music and worship with Jen Hayman, Director of Music and Arts at All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, DC. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired on October 15, 2015.
Dan Berggren
Dan Berggren is a tradition-based songsmith who writes with honesty, humor and a strong sense of place. His concerts are engaging as he invites audiences to join in on songs that explore the lives of hard working folks and the many dimensions of home. While his roots are firmly in the Adirondack Mountains where he was raised, his music has branched out across many borders. For over 40 years, the award-winning musician and educator has performed across New York, from Vermont to Michigan, Kentucky to Texas, and overseas in Europe, the British Isles and Central Africa. A SUNY professor emeritus and founding member of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Northern Chautauqua in Fredonia, Dan along with his wife Nancy are active members of the UU Congregation of Saratoga Springs. Click here to visit Dan’s website, Berggren Folk.
“Dan is a throwback to the old role of the folk singer…he’s articulating things that need to be said right now.”
—Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist
In Search of Abundance: Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller, born in 1810, believed that women should lead full and abundant lives, even though most people at the time thought that being a wife and a mother was quite enough for women to do.
But Margaret was not only extremely smart, she liked to be in conversation with other people, exploring ideas and thinking about how the world could be better. She was good friends with famous intellectuals of the time, like Emerson and Thoreau. But she especially liked to make a place for women to have conversations that would be a chance for “self-expression and independent thinking.” Many women who participated in these conversations went on to be leaders in the movement for women’s equality.
In 1846, the quest for more abundant life took Margaret Fuller to Europe, where she worked as a foreign correspondent, sending newspaper articles about events in Europe back to the United States.
While in Italy, Margaret became involved in the Italian revolution, and fell in love with another revolutionary, a younger man who was an Italian noble. The two of them had a son, and eventually decided to come back to the US. Sadly, their ship sank in a storm within sight of shore, and they never made it back. But while she lived, Margaret Fuller certainly lived abundantly!
To learn more, visit margaretfuller.org.
“A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body” -Margaret Fuller
113: Continental Gathering of UU Seminarians (CGUUS)
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Alix Klingenberg, Shay McKay and Eileen Wiviott talk about the upcoming gathering of seminarians in Evanston, IL. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired on October 1, 2015.
Abundance
October 2015
“My barn having burned down I can now see the moon.”—Mizuta Masahide
Articles
Not What We Have, But What We Enjoy
I’d like to tell you a story, a true story, that a friend of mine witnessed firsthand. It’s about a congregation in the midst of a holiday food drive for a local food bank. Read more »
Finding Abundance
The earth is our horn of plenty. She sends forth all manner of delicious food. She flowers and sends forth fruits and vegetables. Read more »
The Answer is “Everything”
I haven’t always been abundance-minded or able to see or believe in life’s silver lining. Read more »
Abundance
The CLF exists through the abundance and generosity of its community. Some give with their time, some with their presence, and some with money—and we are thankful for every gift! Read more »
From Your Minister
The story is told of Mulla Nasrudin, the Sufi wise fool. A rich man came to see him and said, “Nasrudin, if only you would learn to flatter the emperor and be subservient as I do, you would not have to live on chickpeas and bread.” Read more »
REsources for Living
What gives you a sense of abundance—a feeling that you have plenty, that you are satisfied, that there is enough to go around? Read more »
Did You Know?
…that CLF offers religious education curricula to use at home or for congregations with mixed-aged groups of children? Read more »
Raspberry
Almost October, and there it was, draped over the fence, ripe as July, and as seductive—a stranger’s bit of paradise… Read more »
Abundance
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The CLF exists through the abundance and generosity of its community. Some give with their time, some with their presence, and some with money—and we are thankful for every gift! Read more →
Did You Know?
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…that CLF offers religious education curricula to use at home or for congregations with mixed-aged groups of children? Read more →
112: Seven Principles for Black Lives
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Carlton Smith and Leslie Butler MacFadyen join The VUU for a conversation about UUs and the Black Lives Matter movement. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired on September 24, 2015.
