Today starts a new day …
So we start out on a new adventure, a BLOGGING adventure. I’m excited to see where it takes us. My name is Autumn Nordstrom and I am the Member Services Coordinator for the Unitarian Universalist...
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Service Recap: March 3rd, 2013
Laurie Baker: What Did You Do to DESERVE Your Home? FM Coalition for Homeless Persons www.fmhomeless.org Deciding human rights questions is an exercise that is at once philosophical, theoretical,...
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When you become a parent, the world is full of advice and horror stories. Nothing, however, really prepares you for the mind of a daydreaming kindergartener who, on a recent walk to school, asked me...
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Why the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship?
The circles represent the joining of Unitarian and Universalism. The chalice symbolizes generosity, the flame symbolizes truth. Note to self: Language always matters. The Unitarian Universalists...
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Find Truth, Know the Right, and Do Good
Our separate fires kindle one flame. Unitarian Universalist believes a great deal. Our beliefs are of a different order, but they are nonetheless real. We believe in humanity, that human beings are...
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Service Recap: March 24th
Spring Equinox Happy Holidays: Defining Time and Ritual for a Pre-Modern Audience This service will explore the problem of defining time in an age before mechanical clocks. We will discuss the...
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HAPPY PASSOVER!
Pesach Sameach from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo Moorhead The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient...
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Service Recap: March 31st
Rev. Nancy Holden: Mountains and Dustbins Reverend Holden will survey the progress of social protest in changing American society from before the Civil War to the present. Comparing forms of...
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In My Beginning…..
I was christened Catholic, however, since my mother divorced my father, back in the day, she felt as though she was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. As a very little girl, I remember going to...
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Spring Is This
Spring Robin I will not argue with you when you remark on the difficult long winter, the cold that continues or the inches of March snowfall. But don’t be surprised if I don’t agree with you either, at...
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Inspire the Future we Envision
Normally, you would find a review of Sunday’s service and my thoughts on it. This time my post will be a little different. This past weekend I was blessed with the opportunity to go to the annual...
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Parade of Banners
FMUU Banner being presented by Chris Tuders at the 2013 PrairieStar Conference. Chris and I were fortunate enough to attend the PrairieStar Regional Conference this weekend in Cedar Rapids, IA. Chris...
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Movie of the Month
Movie-of-the-Month is on Wednesday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m. Long, Strange Trip: Movie of the Month for June Long Strange Trip: UU Film Series Part IV Universalism (1600 – 1860) This film documents the...
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Read With Me
Read With Me It’s nearly summer on the calendar. My toenails are painted, and my longing for lighter reading is coming alive. Before we look forward to all that joy, just in case you missed any of...
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A Unitarian Universalist View of the Sacred
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind,” writes Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay “Self Reliance.” With that sentence, Emerson lays the ground work for the way Unitarian...
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They say that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. If that is true, then why should we humans, mere mortals that we are, go up in arms over the name we use to mean God, or a Higher Power?...
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Social Justice Action: The FMUU Garden Plot
At FMUU we have a very active social justice community. Last year as we were weeding through possibilities for our social justice cause for the year, we settled on merging the top two items and calling...
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UU Bingo
MISCELLANIA A compendium of the silly, the sublime, and the simply outrageous. UU Bingo B I N G O Still wears a Wellstone button Fumbles the notes for “Gather Us In” Is proud to be called a secular...
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Sunday Service Recap
“Heroics and Unitarian Universalists” Do we believe in heroes? Some Americans talk a lot about heroes, others about humility. What is the morality of heroism or celebrating heroics? Why do we think...
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Happy Interdependence Day!!!
As we celebrate our nation’s independence this week, it’s good that we also celebrate our interdependence. Every moment reminds us of our interconnectedness. It’s at the core of our societies and our...
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