Erick DuPree, Consulting DRE's Page

We look to spring as a time for renewal, recommitment and rejuvenation.  When the Earth on her mighty axis spins us back into abundance, let us take a moment to be drawn into the beauty of the Earth awaking again. The green growing life we call springtime is a miracle each and every time. Spring is the renewal that…

Dear Family and Friends!

First, let me wish joy this New Year to you all.  January began on New Years Day with a dynamic Kwanzaa celebration with the incomparable Queen Nur, Yomi Awodesu, and Robert Anu.  Multicultural ministry is more than hosting cultural events; it is about service and deepening relationship with those whose traditions and culture are different.  We as UU’s are not trying to make Kwanzaa about us, but rather learn the valued lessons from Kwanzaa, community, peace,…

by Margaret Lea, Chair, Religious Education Committee

I am a lifelong Unitarian Universalist.  I spent my childhood planting pansies at Easter, visiting different denominations, carving pumpkins, playing at potlucks; all on Sundays at church.  When my friends would ask me what I “was”, I’d say with…

“How can you be a religious educator, direct a program that invokes morals and wisdom traditions, or contemplate ordination, when you don’t believe in God?”

As the son of a preacher man, who recently came out of a new closet as an Atheist, I have been inundated with questions about my calling. I wish I could attribute my conversion or rejection of God to the Transcendentalists of my faith’s history or to my colleague Greg Epstein and his awesomely spectacular book, Good Without…