Practicing Gratitude with Poetry Nancy Paxton Nancy Paxton and Sally Darley will lead the service this Sunday in a celebration of gratitude. We will read several of our favorite poems that illustrate different ways of thinking about gratitude: about how paying attention can open us to feeling gratitude in new ways, how our understanding of gratitude … Continue reading Practicing Gratitude with Poetry
“Censorship and the Search for Truth Now” Nancy Paxton Every Sunday we affirm that the “search for truth” is our sacrament. This Sunday, we will consider some of the ways that UU’s search for knowledge has been restricted by censorship in the twentieth-century and then will examine some of the new and confusing challenges we … Continue reading Censorship and the Search for Truth Now
Join us on Sunday, June 2, for our Annual Poetry service at Beacon. Nancy Paxton and Jack Doggett will present a service on poems about goodbyes. May is often full of goodbyes: to friends, to teachers; to home; to lovers who left you, to lovers you left; to fathers or mothers, uncles or aunts, whose … Continue reading Annual Poetry Service
“Trust, Vulnerability, and Freedom” “How do you respond when someone betrays your trust? What are some positive ways to respond? Join us for a look back at “The Anatomy of Trust” workshops we held at Beacon last year and an update, including ideas from Brene Brown’s recent writing on vulnerability, courage, and freedom in … Continue reading Trust, Vulnerability, and Freedom
