Join Rev Tracy and Ashley for a discussion on what Article II is, the progression of it's development, where it is today, and when it will be voted on. We will also include reflection about where we come from and what legacy we are leaving. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Article II if you haven't had a chance to understand it yet or to go more in-depth into your understanding. Please read this in preparation of this discussion: https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/committees/article-ii-study-commission   Beyond Diversity: Calling White Unitarian Universalists to the Work of Dismantling White Supremacy in Our Faith https://www.uuabookstore.org/Assets/PDFs/Beyond%20Diversity.pdf   [...]

This year’s UU Common Read is On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Beacon Press, 2022).   This Common Read offers a glimpse into one of our faith’s foundational sources, Judaism. Readers explore the call to accountability as we follow Rabbi Ruttenberg into a framework for making amends offered by the 12th century Jewish physician and scholar, Maimonides. On Repentance and Repair invites readers of any faith to explore practices for accountability that can bring us into wholeness and really make a difference in our personal, community, and national relationships. Drawing on personal experiences, [...]

Our companions in life are death and grief and yet they are so difficult to talk about, and rarely at that. In times of loss, how do we find healthy comfort? Further, is emotional comfort something human beings should even expect as part of life? In the death workshop we will go over practical matters, memorial services, and think about our own deaths. The grief workshop includes how to walk with grief, writing condolence notes, and digging deep into the grief of being human. The last workshop on comfort helps us understand how we can comfort ourselves naturally as well as [...]

What does it mean to commit a "Microaggression"? Last October, we invited Dr. Seria Chatters to give our Board, Racial Justice Committee, and RE teachers a workshop on microaggressions which was deeply insightful and spurred much discussion. Rev. Tracy and Ashley Hamlin are expanding this training and discussion to anyone in our UUFCC congregation with a second workshop based on Seria's material. After this workshop, we will invite Dr. Chatters to come again and follow up on this work. Our goal is to continue deepening our inclusive and welcoming culture at UUFCC. Please let Ashley Hamlin know if you will be [...]

Please join us for a discussion of James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (2023). Books can be obtained at Barnes & Noble in State College or over Amazon. Click here for a list of discussion ideas to think about. The discussion will be led by Leslie Brown, who has this to say about the book and its author: Selecting a work of fiction for this venue is out of the ordinary, but the literary genre can show us much about living as a person of color in past and present America. I have read most of McBride’s novels that [...]

"Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism" Whether or not you’ve read the book, join a meaningful LRE Hour discussion with co-author Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones.