Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pottstown

Sunday, February 11, 2018

What To Do When Your Moment Arrives

Speaker: Will Fuller, Community Organizer from POWER, Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower & Rebuild

We’ll be looking at Mordecai and Esther’s conversation as an analogy for the historical moment we’re in, and Esther’s response as one we can appropriate for ourselves. POWER is a Philadelphia based interfaith organization committed to implementing system change for the betterment of Pennsylvania communities. UUFP, through the leadership of UU Action Chair, Desiree Peterman, is a member of POWER. A son of western Kentucky, Will originally joined POWER in the fall of 2016 to complete a Community Organizing Fellowship through Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE). He currently organizes full-time for POWER’s suburban counties. A 2010 “Teach for America” alumnus, he is dedicated to the causes of educational equity, faith-based social justice, theological education reform, and racial reconciliation. He holds a Masters of Education from Lipscomb University and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Naturalistic Pantheism          Speaker: Allan Pallay

 Do you feel a sense of peace and wonder in the midst of nature, in a forest, in a field of wild flowers, or on a mountain top?  Are you filled with awe when you look up at the night sky?  Do you find it difficult to imagine anything more worthy of your reverence than the beauty of nature and the power of the universe?  If so, you may be a Pantheist. Come this Sunday and hear about this spiritual path with ancient roots that is well suited to the modern age.

Sunday, January 7

This service was cancelled due to inclement weather. Please see January 14th for our next service.

Love Enters a New Year                     Speaker: Reverend Paul Daniel

I will share some thoughts of what we bring to this new year, what we left behind as we begin again in Love, the eternal message we shared this past Christmas.

Sunday, January 14

The Missing “H” in Tecnology Guest Speaker: Jerry Lazzaro

Jerry Lazzaro is the Chair of the Worship and Music Committee @ Thomas Paine UUF.  Technology gives us unprecedented convenience and speed in communication. But should we be concerned that some essential human dimension is lost as face-to-face communication is inexorably supplanted by cyberspace communication? Let’s consider whether anecdotal and research data justify the concern that important aspects of human connectedness are being lost in electronic communication media.

Sunday, January 28

Lay Speaker: Jon Dreazan

Many of us have grown up with the tales of the Bible as part of our religious legacy. Others have grown up with tales from the Koran, Buddhist theology, Hindu theology, Pagan stories and many other sources of our theological beliefs. Along the way we have come to Unitarian Universalism with its meld of these stories and sources. Regardless, most of these stories began as myths and archetypes that long predated any type of organized religious structure. For example, most religions have a flood story, a story of spring renewal, a festival of lights in winter and perhaps a savior. I will discuss some of these myths and how they came to be inserted into our various religious canonized scriptures over the course of time.

Sunday, January 21
Speaker: Reverend Paul Daniel

MLK’s mission and dream are carried forward in The Promises
and Practices for Black Lives of UU, a new program of our faith. We will hear Black
voices of hope and struggle as we strive to fulfill the dreams
of equality within our faith structures and interactions.
Please join us for our Third Sunday Potluck
which will follow the service.