Today’s social climate is complicated by very divergent views of religion, race, and marriage.   Differing personal beliefs about these can even divide otherwise close-knit families. With cultural differences taking center stage today, we might all benefit from an objective perspective offered by anthropology.   The “study of human societies in all places and at all times” has been around for over 100 years and can offer useful insights.   This presentation will briefly provide an anthropologist’s perspective of our nation’s current divisiveness.

Presented by Jim Woods, former Director of the Herrett Center

Pam Blankenheim is Worship Associate

Join us this Sunday, October 26^th for a discussion, led by Donald Allen from the Pocatello Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, about the possibility of life on other planets and how faith interacts with this.

Don Morishita is the Worship Associate

Please join us as Shelley McEuen, CSI Department  Chair/Distinguished Professor of English and coordinator of the Rock Creek Institute shares the historic, biological, economic, and agricultural significance of the Rock Creek watershed that flows right through our own backyard connecting us all.
This partnership reflects the ethos of what Unitarian Universalists stand for: connection, collaboration and compassion.

Melody Lenkner is Worship Associate

Please join us as Christine Geisel, an educational life coach and educator for Adult Basic Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes at CSI shares a vision for reimagined ESL classes.

In partnership with the Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Pathway of Hope plans to plant the seeds for an ongoing ESL program that will not only benefit immigrants and refugees in the Magic Valley but will enrich the lives of existing community members.

This partnership reflects the ethos of what Unitarian Universalists stand for: connection, collaboration and compassion.

Worship Associate Melody Lenkner

The Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is pleased to welcome Dr. Colin Johnson, assistant professor of political science at Idaho State University. Colin will speak about self-expression and politics, drawing on his personal experience of exploring his identity as a gay man while living in Russia and other places in the former USSR. His title, “Our Past Is on the Horizon,” comes from Osip Mandelstam’s 1921 essay, “The Word and Culture,” which questions the contradictions inherent to culture and to politics as we collectively work to redefine our common futures. Reflecting on his own experience of these contradictions, Colin will offer his perspective on perseverance in the midst of political exhaustion and tumult.”

Don Morishita is Worship Associate