Please join us in a discussion regarding the validity of trusting your intuition-“that small still voice”-in decision making. The discussion will be centered on how it has or has not played out in our lives.

Presented by Melody Lenkner

Our service Sunday will explore 25 possible changes to the basic structures of American government – some practical, some provocative, and some that challage our deepest assumptions about how our system works. We will reflect on the structural features of government that shape our political life and consider how things could be different. This is not a call to agreement but an invitation to imagination.

Presenter/ Worship Associate Perri Gardner

Near Death experiences

Sunday, MVUUF member, Michael Becerra, will discuss “the good, the bad, and the ugly of Retirement.”  Retirement is a time of life that most look forward to.  And, it can be wonderful for some.  Now three years into retirement, some unanticipated issues have emerged, despite preparation.  Join us as Michael discusses the journey.  This is not just for elders, there will hopefully be something for all ages.

Worship Associate Melody Lenkner

This week Associate Professor of Psychology David Chambers helps us explore how humans process an overwhelming amount of sensory information and how attention serves as the gateway to perception and memory. This talk will consider the neurological foundations of focus, the role of novelty and adaptation, and how these processes shape what we remember, especially our tendency to prioritize negative or threatening information. Ultimately, it connects these ideas to how we construct meaning and how an individual’s intention supports their search for truth.

Worship Associate is Perri Gardner

From the time that we are children, we are taught the importance of paying attention; whether it is crossing the street or learning in school. Being aware of what is going on is one aspect of paying attention. However, during times of duress, it is easy to tune ourselves out, to try ignore when your body is trying to tell you something, ignore what is going on around us, and close ourselves off from bad things happening around us. Unfortunately, tuning out is only a way of ignoring our challenges and doesn’t do anything to resolve our issues. Paying attention to what’s going on cannot only protect us but it can benefit others as well. Join us this Sunday for our monthly discussion and our topic will focus on the importance of paying attention.

Presented/ Worship Associate Don Morishita

Drawing inspiration from Tiya Miles’ award-winning book, All That She Carried, this Women’s History Month service explores the stories that survive outside official history — lives, memories, and acts of love carried across generations.

Together we will reflect on how feminist approaches to studying history helps us recover voices too often overlooked, honoring our Unitarian Universalist commitment to the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

Perri Gardner will present.

“As with Eustace in C.S. Lewis’s book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Christine Geisel, MVUUF Member, is finding the answer is not having thicker skin, or more armor, but a bigger heart: just a bigger wide-open heart of love. An open heart not afraid to break.” Join us Sunday to learn more.

Don Morishita is the Worship Associate

Award-winning hospice social worker and author, Lejla Becirovic, will discuss resilience based on her life’s journey and professional work supporting individuals and families through hardship and loss this Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 

Worship Associate is Erica Hopkins

When we are battered by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, by serious illness, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, financial crisis, betrayal, rejection, or depression, where do we find the strength to keep going, to have hope? Join us this Sunday as Tom Schwartz, retired professor and international consultant, will talk about those seasons of affliction and how they can lead us either to disillusionment and bitterness or to empathy, compassion and love. He will suggest ways in which suffering can bring with it compensation blessings and spiritual growth.  

Worship Associate is Don Morishita