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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.

The Rappahannock Clergy Association invites you to: An Ecumenical Community Thanksgiving Service Thursday, November 23 10:00 a.m. Washington Baptist Church 180 Gay St. Washington, VA 22747 Everyone is invited!

Unitarian Universalists tend to be known as civil rights activists. Members of UUBRidge joined hundreds of people from UU and other Virginia congregations in the 2023 “Day for All People” advocacy day in Richmond, sponsored by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP). The four 2023 advocacy priorities of VICPP will be shared, along […]

This is a re-reading of a meaningful sermon (by Ralph Stutzman) that Emery Lazar and his late wife Rita shared with our UU community a number of years ago.  He felt that it merited another hearing.