We all know that UU’s are predominantly white, but did you realize that we are also largely upper-class: well-educated, professional-class, economically secure? Such class similarities may lead us to make inaccurate assumptions about how others think, work, or live, assumptions that may hurt or alienate them. With the aid of materials from the “UU Class … Continue reading Class Conversations
Join Brenda S. and Jo M. for our traditional, story-centered Christmas Eve service,complete with stories, songs, blessing of babies, assembling of the creche, and singingof “Silent Night” to (hand-held) candlelight. Our story of all ages is the classic Nativitytale. Our story FOR all ages is “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!” by MoWillems, the … Continue reading The Christmas Story from Scripture
Fresh from their triumphant Stone Soup appearance, the ESUUC Players return in Brenda S.’s new holiday play. When foul weather forces a group of people to take shelter in a local church, they are sure their holidays are ruined. It takes some very unexpected visitors to give them a different perspective.
Pittsburgh has a storied place in the history of the American labor movement. In honor of Labor Day, join union member Brenda S. (UFCW Local 1776 Keystone State) for another famous chapter, the 1909 McKees Rocks strike. Activist Eugene Debs described it as “the greatest labor fight in all my history in the labor movement,” … Continue reading The Greatest Labor Fight
This morning’s service was pre-recorded for UU congregations around the continent to view from GA. Enjoy music and messages from the annual gathering of UU’s. Brenda facilitator.
We live in a country that is constantly involved in military conflicts, either our own or those of our allies. Who gains, and who loses, from this “forever war”?
A theologian, a suffragist, and a pacifist, Olympia Brown was the first American woman to be ordained with the consent of her denomination. For Women’s History Month, Brenda S. introduces us to our fascinating Universalist forebear, a woman who strove to change the world.
As an industrial center, Pittsburgh has had a unique, and volatile, place in the history of organized labor. Brenda S. discusses the Homestead Strike of 1892 and how it changed the future for workers in the United States.
Brenda S. and Linda D. will bring us the third installment of our series on great peacemakers, created by Red River UU Church and based on the book Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World. Today we will took at the lessons taught by Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to caring for the … Continue reading Peace Sunday
Join us for the second installment of our series on great peacemakers, created by Red River UU Church and based on the book “Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World.”
