Events

The USA is about to have our 250th birthday: our Semiquincentennial! Through readings, poetry, and music, we’ll take a look at where we have been and where we are going as a nation. We’ll ask: “What Does it Mean to be American?” Join us, the Worship Committee and Friends, for this soul searching service.

An introduction to the UU Hysterical Society: How humor copes with distress.

with Rev. Dr. Richard Speck What are the right words that we should use in church these days? I am sure you can think of several that are not appropriate, but are used in common speech and now in print with no one feeling any shame to their use. I will be exploring four letter words that we all should use in our interactions with one another. Are you curious now? Come find out. About Rev. Dr. Richard Speck: The Reverend Doctor Richard Speck is the retired District Executive for the Joseph Priestley District (JPD) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of [...]

...with Wayne Osgood. The banjo is a uniquely American instrument, developed by enslaved people from Africa, who had played similar instruments in their homelands. Yet in the 1890s almost every college campus featured a well-dressed banjo orchestra, and today the banjo mainly appears in bluegrass, country, and folk music played by White Americans. The banjo’s strange evolution is a lesson in race relations in America that we will follow in music and pictures.

with Peter and Elaine Jurs. Music: Ron Smith, UUFCC Jazz Band (with David Morris, conductor extraordinaire). Join us for our annual hUUmor Sunday summer service devoted to looking at our UUselves and the wider world with a sense of humor through jokes, stories, music, cartoons, and much, much more. Wear your most outlandish shirt or blouse and come prepared to laugh! Bring a short family-friendly joke to share during the open mic part of the service.