We’ve been getting noticed! UUA staff has requested permission to share some of what we are doing here at UUCA in Religious Education with the wider world. Our Grow With Us teacher recruitment board for Fall, in Sandburg Hall, is now shared on the UUA website. And our Director of Lifespan Religious Education, Joy Berry,
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Sermon: The Soil of Life (audio)
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister
Want to grow? You’ll need to get your hands dirty. At this multigenerational service we explore some of the lessons that the soil teaches us about supporting and sustaining life. Click on the title to listen…
Sermon: Counting on Chaos (text & audio)
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister
My wife, Debbie, has begun a new practice when we go out on our walks. Periodically, she’ll just stop and jump. She’s not jumping over or onto anything in particular – just jumping, for the sake of jumping. She started this after reading that she might be able to reduce the gradual loss of bone mass in her hips and legs by mildly stressing them in this way. Just jumping something like 20 times a day, it seems, can halt the loss of bone density – something that is a particular concern for women – and in some cases even improve it. Click on the title to read more and/or to listen…
Sermon: How We Bloom – Easter (text & audio)
The pink cherry tree outside the window of my home office is done blooming, its delicate petals blasted away by spring’s bluster, replaced by clusters of tiny green leaves poking out of the ends of branches in origami-like folds that seem to open as I watch. Each year this tree serves as my living reminder
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