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UUS:E to Run Food Drive for MACC Food Pantry
MACC Community Food Pantry after a food drive The Manchester Area Conference of Churches (MACC) Community Pantry needs food and nonfood items (listed below) that cannot be purchased with SNAP...
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Taking Your Faith to Work
Rev. Josh Pawelek I’m calling this sermon “Taking Your Faith to Work,” though it’s a misleading title because there are so many different understandings of what it means to have faith and what it might...
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A Sufficient Quantity of Faith
Rev. Josh Pawelek In an interview with Krista Tippett for the American Public Media show “On Being,” Nadia Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of Denver’s House for All Sinners and Saints, said, “I don’t think...
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Interfaith Thanksgiving Service — November 23rd, 4:30 PM
Manchester clergy and faith leaders will hold an Interfaith Thanksgiving service. All are warmly invited! When: Sunday afternoon, November 23rd, 4:30 PM Where: Temple Beth Shalom B’Nai Israel, 400...
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Epicenter Ferguson (A Poet-Preacher Collaboration)
A Letter to My Unborn Black Son Christopher D. Sims Dear son, African American warrior, Reincarnation of the people of the Sudan. I hope you understand why I am writing you this letter. And...
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2014 Transgender Day of Remembrance
REMEMBER ** HONOR ** ACT The 16th Annual (Hartford Area) Transgender Day of Remembrance takes place at 7:00pm, Thursday November 20, 2014 at the Metropolitan Community Church of Hartford, 155 Wyllys...
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Mental Health Ministry: Color Your Holiday!
Fall, 2014 Mental Health Ministry Summit How Are You Going to Color Your Holidays? Saturday, December 6th, 9:00 am to Noon at UUS:E Join us for food, art, conversation, planning and support! All are...
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What Does the World Require of Us? (Revisited for Pawel Jura)
Rev. Josh Pawelek Pawel, August, 2014 Our congregation is in mourning after learning of the death, this past Tuesday, of our beloved former Music Director, Pawel Jura. In speaking yesterday with the...
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Dreaming Ourselves in a Multigenerational Community
Mr. Barb Greve, MDiv, MCRE When I was a child I walked among real-life superheroes and I bet you do too. But don’t look now – they’re probably wearing their church clothes. There was Playdough Pat,...
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April 2015 Minister’s Column
Dear Ones: Our April ministry theme is transcendence. I’ve been thinking about what this word means to me. At its most basic it means “to surpass” or “go beyond.” In much of traditional Christian...
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Now Thank We All Our God
Rev. Josh Pawelek Rev. Martin Rinkart “Now thank we all our God.”[1] Let me tell you the story of the Rev. Martin Rinkart who wrote the original German words to this hymn in 1636. I’m basing my telling...
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Would You Be Free From Your Burden of Sin (There’s Power in the Blood)
Susan Campbell Susan Campbell (credit, Chion Wolf / WNPR) I will tell you, before I wind up, that I’m really not that much a public speaker. I’m telling you that so when I’m finished, you don’t have to...
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On Terror
Rev. Josh Pawelek Mourners in Beirut following the November 12th terrorist attack. Credit: Hasan Shaaban/Reuters In light of the Paris terrorist attacks Friday night and the Beirut terrorist attacks on...
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Rev. Josh Pawelek My announcement for this sermon said “from Columbus Day to Thanksgiving, images of Native Americans flow in and out of the national consciousness.” They actually flow in and out of...
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Living in Shades of Gray
Rev. Josh Pawelek Late November sun shines dimly on cold gray mornings, on leafless gray branches, on still gray ponds. After autumn’s beauty has shown forth, after its grandeur has lifted spirits,...
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December 2015 Minister’s Column
Dear Ones: As I write these words just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the weather has finally turned cold (or at least nippy) and we’ve had a few gray days after weeks and weeks of beautiful though...
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Hinged Between Worlds
Mindful that a new year has begun, I want to play around with the spirituality of thresholds. The ancient and somewhat obscure Roman god from whom January takes its name—Janus—is the double-faced god...
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Perhaps Struggle is All We Have
The first title for this sermon was “Where Do We Go From Here?”—a reference to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” The intention behind that title is...
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Dear Ones: Do you have a friend or acquaintance who lives in the Greater Manchester area who you think is a Unitarian Universalist but just doesn’t know it yet? Do you have a friend or acquaintance who...
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The Things That Heal
Rev. Josh Pawelek Hygieia: Greek Goddess of Health This morning I continue exploring our February ministry theme, resilience, by reflecting on the role spirituality plays in healing: healing from...
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