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Soulful Exploration for All (That means you!)

Make sure to check out our website often for updates to our program at wuuc.org/programs The REALL (Religious Education and Lifelong Learning) team and I are contemplating how we might incorporate commitments made in the resolution for the support of Black lives,...

Presence: A Way of Recognizing Inherent Worth & Dignity

Greetings from Lifelong Learning and WUUC This month our congregation will explore the Soul Matters theme Presence. As a contemplative, this is one of my favorite topics. In the Buddhist context, presence speaks to our ability to hold attention to our state of mind in...

In Religious Education, Justice Consciousness Begins with Stories

Can you believe that it is already November? The many colors of Fall warmly envelop our senses and Thanksgiving is soon approaching. It has been a wonderful few months in Soulful Exploration at WUUC. We have experienced many great chapels and workshop rotations in our...

The Goal: A Smooth Transition

We have a Director of Lifelong Learning!  I wish to warmly welcome Rev. M. Jamil Scott to WUUC.  I had the pleasure of meeting Jamil (pronounced Juh-MEEL) during his interview rotation.  He has the compassion of a Buddhist minister and the charm of a southern...

Blessings of a Non-Believer

“I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection.  For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the...

Parenting: The Path of Most Resistance

By Lindsay Rogers I remember when my first child came home. My best friend from college, Joanne, already a mother of three, said to me the most profound words I’ve ever heard about motherhood: “Enjoy this time because once they turn two the real parenting begins and...