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Red Wing UU Community meets to celebrate a talk by Rev. Ted Tollefson on how to find our way in this ancient story of rebirth and regeneration.
Philip Martin, author of The Zen Path Through Depression will give a free talk on Mindfulness this Sunday January 19 at the Red Wing UU Community beginning at 10 am. Learn about the many gifts of compassionate, undivided attention.
Philip Martin has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism and meditation for nearly 50 years. He worked for 30 years as a County Mental Health Social Worker. He is now retired and continues to write. He also speaks on spirituality and depression and facilitates a Mindfulness Group with a specific focus on the practice for people with depression and other mental health challenges. He lives in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Halfway between Buddha's Awakening (Dec. 8) and Christmas (Dec. 25), we'll ponder what these two savior-teachers have in common and how they differ.
Bring your questions and comments. Tea and treats too!
Revisit Ted’s sermon about Jesus and Buddha: Two Messengers of Light
After the most recent election, how do progressives begin again?
What can we learn from this election?
There will be plenty to time to share and exchange views with free tea and lemonade.
We live in a culture that sometimes over-values speaking and neglects the power of listening to gather communities, identify common goals and detect the subtle currents that might lead us to the common good. I'll identify several ways of listening and there will be a chance to practice them.
Music by Bill McGrath and a message of peace
Presentation by Bill Habedank: How do we create a world of peace?
Words of peace by Rev. Ted Tollefson: The Ecology of Peace-making and a Prayer for Peace
Conversations
Mural by Nan Palmero from San Antonio, TX, USA
History has examples, good and bad. Plato, Rosseau, Hobbes, Jefferson, Locke, Mills, Marx, Dewey. Relevance to today and the future. Trump and authoritarianism.
Come as your favorite Unitarian Universalist and see if we can guess who you are!
Weather permitting we'll meet outdoors in the garden behind Hobgoblin We'll serve iced tea and lemonade to make sure that all are awake!
What if the search for home also creates our destination?
We'll serve iced tea and lemonade to make sure that all are awake! Plan to meet outdoors in the garden behind Hobgoblin Music Barn weather permitting.
Rev. Ted E. Tollefson will be talking about the healing gifts of Universalism for our divisive time.
And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!
Rev. Ted will be talking about how the stories we tell about our beginnings shape our understanding of who we are and how we interact with other beings.
And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans”
Reverend Ted Tollefson will be talking about the many kinds of love that animate our lives and bring us new life. And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!
Let’s talk about the full range of dreaming: night dreams, day dreams, twilight dreams and the Big Dreams that help establish religions. There will be helpful hints on how to remember, record and work with your dreams.
And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!
Bring your questions and your answers and stories. A lively discussion and sharing will be an important part of this service.
Bring your questions and your answers and stories of being grateful. A lively discussion and sharing will be an important part of this service.
Poetic reflections on how to find and claim our place in turning seasons. We'll practice some savoring together. There will be time for questions and comments, too.
Belonging is an important way that we feel our deep connections with the communities we hold dear. But what does it cost? When is the price too high? Bring your questions and your answers and stories of belonging.
Two of our members will share their beliefs and their spiritual/religious journeys.
Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions. If you have answers, bring those too! This talk is intended to empower 2 or 3 of our members to do a "This I Believe" talk next month.
Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions. If you have answers, bring those too!
This talk is intended to empower 2 or 3 of our members to do a "This I Believe" talk next month.
A talk with a shared inquiry. We'll be using a *Secret Process* to move from individual to shared understanding.
Possible responses to this month's topic question:
Sun
Fun
Vacation
Outdoors
R&R
G&G
There will be a performance, as well as a talk about Veronika's first-hand experience of the war with Russia. Veronika is the Art Director of the Glowing Harp competition and festival in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and the founder of the Veronika Lemishenko Charity Foundation. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the World Harp Congress and for the European Union of Musical Competitions for Youth (EMCY). She has performed with orchestras in Austria, Germany, France, and Italy, as well as at international music festivals all across the world. As a soloist, she has released two albums and performed at venues such as the Royal Academy of Music (London, England) and Esplanade (Singapore).
Donations are strongly encouraged, but the event is free to attend.
Reflections on what really matters. Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions. If you have answers, bring those too!
Many people in our culture are divided about what Easter means.
I'll offer some new Unitarian views of Easter, beginning with the insight that Easter marks the death of the historical Jesus AND the birth of the mythological Christ. All answers are questioned here. Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions.
If you have answers, bring those too!
Reflections on our growing edges in compassion, creativity, and conscience. But what makes vulnerability "Holy"?
We meet in person at Hobgoblin.
On cold winter nights in the White House, Thomas Jefferson gathered six copies of the New Testament and a very sharp razor.
With painstaking effort, he trimmed away the layers of myth-making to reveal a very clear and modern picture of the "historic Jesus" not a god but a man, not a savior but a sage. We'll follow Jefferson's track and also consider what his approach overlooks.
The trouble begins at 10 am.
Every so often we face a decision for which there are no easy answers, just lots of difficult questions. How can we follow the way of free and responsible reflection to make better decisions? Four or five clues for challenging occasions.
When we dig deeper than tinsel and frenzied gift-giving, what are the deep roots of Christmas? We will explore and honor the ancient roots of Winter Solstice, Santa as a Sami Shaman, and universal Festivals of Lights.
Rev, Ted Tollefson explores the inspiring connections between dogs, their trained humans, and the Powers that Be.
Special memorial service for dogs we have loved and lost in the last year.
It's long past the time to reclaim our major holidays to celebrate peace-making:
from Armistice Day (Nov. 11) to Christmas (December 25), to Mother's Peace Day (second Sunday in May) and World Peace Day (September 21).
All Peace-makers invited. We'll also be talking about a new Peace Pole for Red Wing.
