Rev. Sylvia Stocker In our annual Longfellow Days worship service, we will feature poems of hope to augment Rev. Stocker’s reflections. Rev. Stocker will be joined by Maryli Tiemann and others. If you have a poem about hope that you would like to share at the service, please let Rev. Stocker know. Music by Derek […]
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November 17, 2019 In June, I traveled to Richmond, Indiana, to help my son move to Maine. Over the years, I have visited there many times, and I have gotten to know the area a bit. Richmond is an economically depressed city that has lost its shine. But it has an interesting history. Read More
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Sunday, November 10, 2019 I had never given much thought about that moment when the guns stopped until last year, the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. I have been thinking about it ever since, imagining what the moment must have been like. Read More
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick Presents its 2019-2020 Working for Justice Series: Many Voices: Widening the Listening Circle The Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick launches this year’s Working for Justice Series “Many Voices: Widening the Listening Circle” on Saturday, November 23, 2019 with a free community concert called “Deeper Than the Skin,” a musical
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September 29, 2019 My childhood house had thick woods behind it where I played happily as a child. Read More
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick’s Working for Justice Steering Group The Bowdoin Spirit of Service Award is presented annually to a Bowdoin community member or group who embrace a genuine commitment to improving the lives of others through service, their actions speaking strongly while they remain humbly quiet. From Bowdoin News “The steering group has
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I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to be a Muslim in America now. The national hatred borne on the airwaves, through social media, and from person-to-person threats and insults must be horrible. My heart goes out to the children especially and also to refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers who may have
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On March 23rd, UUCB members and friends met at The Center for Multicultural Life at Bowdoin College to engage in conversation about race—an Intergroup Dialogue. Two groups of 14 were facilitated by Bowdoin College faculty. Each group had two facilitators, one a person of color and one who is white. Participants actively engaged in activities
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This month the Sunday School is taking up the topic of “journey.” Long ago, when I was five, my family took a three-week trip out west: my parents, my two older brothers, the family dog, and me traveling in the Ford Edsel station wagon. We saw all kinds of wonders: Yellowstone National Park, the Rocky
