UUBRidge

A conversation on the historical legacy of indigenous people of the upper Rappahannock watershed, the Mannahoac tribe,  and the relevance of this unfolding story to the modern quest for Peace and Conservation.  David Caprara of Fredericksburg, advisor to Global Peace Foundation and former head of VISTA volunteers and VA Department of Housing and Community Development, along […]

We at UUBRidge are becoming a “new thing” together—a UU congregation without a minister (and there are many similar UU congregations that thrive). We are moving toward becoming a self-sustaining, do-it-yourself operation. New possibilities for engagement and thinking outside our old box await us all—opportunities for any of us to try new things within the […]

At Hearthstone after the service.

Since the turn of the century, books on happiness and well-being have been a publishing phenomenon; organizations promoting happiness have appeared; a school of psychology devoted to human flourishing was founded; Bhutan pioneered the concept of “gross national happiness.” Happiness is essential, it’s true. But can humans pursue happiness in consonance with caring for the […]

Kathryn Treanor will read this sermon on forgiveness by Rev. Emeritus Kathleen Tucker at First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.

People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion — to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

Dr. Burney, has served most recently as Director of Quality for Medical Services at the U.S. Dept. of state. He will share his experience in multiple roles in the health care field, and his views on the current state of the U.S. health care system.

Frank will read seven poems he wrote when he was still a poet. He’s now, he says, able to better understand the poems than when he wrote them, or at least the ones that possess hidden meanings.

A sermon should be a spiritual challenge, and this is one from outside the box. It ties in with Frank Dixon’s wonderful sermon about the gravity of culture. There is no gene or cluster of genes common to all white people or to all black people or to all Asian people. Biological races do not […]

In our September session on meditation, we introduced Breath Counting and Breath Watching meditation. We’ll review those, and explore some of the problems, and benefits, arising during, and from, meditation practice.

Tepp will briefly discuss three local areas of geologic interest: Shenandoah National Park (lava flows on Stony Man, uniqueness of Old Rag), Luray Caverns (karst features), and the Luck Stone Quarry in Culpeper (dinosaur footprints).

This TED Talk by Louie Schwartzberg is a celebration of the awesome beauty of nature, of which we are a part. It’s also a reminder and a heartfelt invitation to fully experience, daily, the emotion of gratitude for all of nature and for every moment in which we are alive in it.