**Based on the information received from Hearthstone and the low temperatures, we will host this Sunday’s service virtually in the interest of safety. Click here to join via Zoom, password: 077806. Sigmund Freud asked: “What Does Woman Want?” It was a question of a frustrated psychologist.  UU women and girls have asked that question, too.  Barbara […]

Mankind has been grappling with sexuality since the days of the cave men and women. It’s testosterone and hormones versus morals and taboos and laws. Probably every approach to it has been tried, with a wide variety of approaches. There are no universal answers. We don’t even have the right questions.

A divorce and career-oriented life left David Brooks feeling empty and alone. He realized he had fallen for lies our culture tells us about finding fulfilment, lies which have been largely responsible for a “social and relational crisis” in our country. In this TED Talk video, Brooks combines his own story of recovery from despair […]

Books are being taken off the shelves in libraries, and even rainbows are banned from a Virginia school system. We will address the question, “What’s Going On?” as it relates to our civic life, and we will explore the role of religion – the good and the bad – as we try to figure out […]

This video presentation by Bryan Stephenson—an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative—is about the incarceration of innocent people. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 70,000 Virginians are currently incarcerated. Black people make up about 20% of the […]

This is the third in a series of services on meditation. Gary will briefly review the meditation techniques that he previously shared. He will then discuss some long-term effects of regular meditation practice and identify a few problems that may arise and how to deal with them.

Today’s world, with its daily examples of greed, self-interest, and cruelty, can be frightening. Some of this fear, which can veer toward despair, arises from our perception that there is nothing individuals can do to push back on behalf of a kinder world. This video, by the head of TED, Chris Anderson, points to a […]

“My mission to change the narrative of mental health,” a video from TED, was a welcome reminder that mental health has become a subject we feel able to talk about more freely. Some people in public life, such as Sen. John Fetterman, have led the way by talking about their own struggles, and that has […]

Spring Equinox is a time to reconnect to Earth, in all her budding glory. One way of doing this is through the growing of green things and reconnecting to the food we eat. Instead of centering our worship around a sermon, we will be performing a seed planting ceremony to honor our connections with Earth […]

Lee will make the case that vegetarianism is now a human necessity. In the past it has been a free choice in most cultures. Today, the global consequences of not being a vegetarian culture are much too dire to ignore. By the year 2025, two years from now, 2 of every 3 humans on earth will […]

Here in Virginia, we’ll be able to observe a partial solar eclipse on April 8. At the peak of the partial eclipse here, the moon will cover about 87% of the sun. Tepp will describe how an eclipse occurs, where the path of totality is, at what times on April 8 we’ll be able to […]

Hearthstone School has been a longtime presence in Rappahannock County, offering an alternative educational philosophy compared to public schools. Three of the Hearthstone staff will relate the founding and history of the school, as well as the essentials of Waldorf education. The topic should be of special interest to members of UUBRidge, as we have […]