I hope you all have been enjoying your summer, that you’ve been able to reconnect with friends and family and able to have some relaxing downtime. The SUUS Board of Trustees, and some of our key committees, have continued to meet as we keep our eyes on the constantly changing landscape that we are living […]
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Mike’s Modern Dictionary Some of the various aspects of language have been discussed more than once in this series of columns. My fascination with words is at its nadir with the origin and evolution of them. For example, the English word “apron” derives from the Old French “naperon,” which meant the garment worn to protect
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Our Share the Plate Offering this month will go to IRIS, an organization that we have supported for many years, including sponsoring an Iraqi family for a year in New Haven. To find out more about this organization, click on the video below. Please give generously! The Share the Plate program aims to embody SUUS’s
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CARING TEAM NEEDS YOUR HELP!The Caring Team is looking for volunteer drivers to help get people to doctor appointments, etc. This does not need to be a recurring commitment—even if you can only help out a time or two, it would be of great help for this small, hard-working team. They would like to create
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Hope you are all enjoying your summer. I’d like to share some information about our upcoming worship services in August: August 1: Rev. Jennifer JohnsonAugust 8: Rev. Terry SweetserAugust 15: Rev. Aaron StockwellAugust 22: Rev. Megan Lloyd Joyner – “Begin Again in Love” – The Dalai Lama says that compassion is a necessity without which
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When we look at the Source of our Living Tradition, it seems to make sense how we might read and find the final five sources, but how do we create and “read” our first source, “Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the
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Sunday, August 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EDT Join UU New England for a rich and comprehensive webinar on Reparations and how UUA NER congregations are engaging in this important work. Click here for details. Inspired by the recommendations of the Commission on Institutional Change in the Widening the Circle of Concern report, this webinar
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The Complaint Department is Open There’s a variety of bread I like to get at my local supermarket but, unfortunately, it hasn’t been available for the past three weeks. The bread (nothing fancy, it’s just a seeded rye) is packaged under the store’s label, so I don’t quite understand the problem of not having it
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A HUGE thank you for all your pledge payments, Sunday offerings and donations for this past fiscal year! We have received 101% of our pledge income, 130% for our Sunday offering, and nearly double our budget for donations! You are so amazing for supporting our faith, our staff, our justice causes and our community. Thank you so much
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