Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pottstown

Magic Penny
Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer

There is an old song that compares love to a magic penny that multiplies when it is given away. As we straddle the line between the season of gratitude and the season of generosity, we can think about the lesson that the magic penny might have for us.

Please join us for coffee hour in the Social Hall after service.

What Does it Mean to Belong
Guest Speaker: Rev. Kim Wilson, UU Minister

We can learn a lot from members of many Indigenous communities, where from childhood, each person is recognized for their unique and special qualities. These qualities are nurtured and supported by the entire community. Thus, each individual becomes their best self, and learns how to use their gifts to give back to and support the larger community. This morning, we’ll explore this idea of belonging, what it could mean to us and how it connects us to one another.

Coffee Hour follows the Service

Guest Speaker: Rev. Cheryl Meinschein
Lay Leader: Jon Dreazan

Today we welcome back Cheryl Meinschein for her third visit to UUFP. She will speak about her thoughts on the book The Awakened Brain: The Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life, by Dr. Lisa Miller.

A Town Hall Meeting and Coffee Hour follows the Service

From Land to Civilization
Lay Speaker: Mary Ryan

This will really be the end of the Shackleton epic adventure, taking us from Elephant Island to South Georgia and back. This part is possibly the most exciting of them all.

Third Sunday Potluck follows the Service
Please bring something tasty to share

Halos and Horns
Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer

The halo effect is a form of cognitive bias where a person’s positive opinion about a single characteristic tends to color their reaction toward the whole. An example might be a company labeling its popsicles “gluten-free” to lend them an aura of health, despite their being merely frozen sugar-water. People, too, can acquire the aura of halos or horns. Join us as we think about the ways that snap judgments may be skewing our vision.

Coffee Hour follows the Service

One Song: the Science of Unity
Guest Speaker: JD Stillwater

For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel
ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! There are plenty of reasons to conclude instead that “All is horribly splintered.” Were all the mystics naive, or just wrong? Recent advances from mainstream science reveal an underlying integrity, connectedness, and wholism in everything from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time. Even the noble humble dung beetle, star of our service today. In short, science agrees: “All is one.”

Coffee Hour follows the Service