What’s Happening in Faith Formation?

Welcome as we continue our theme, Story! This week we focus on the segments From the Mailbox and On the Porch. Check out this week’s video here. You can access the Soulful Home packet here at your own leisure.

Many Ways to Connect

Taking Flight Sex Ed Program for 7th-9th Youth – we will not meet on this week due to the Annual Meeting after worship.

Pre/K Kids and Families – POP (Parents of Preschoolers) – May’s materials are available here. The password is YouGotThis2020 (case sensitive.) This UU-based program is to be used all month long. Do whatever fits your family’s schedule.

High School Youth – We know this last month of school will be busy, so we won’t be meeting. Plans are being made for an in-person gathering next month, so look for an email soon!

Sidewalk Chalk Games and Art – June 6th – 4-5:30 pm! All ages are invited to gather in the UCE parking lot for some sidewalk chalk games and art! Feel free to bring your own sidewalk chalk and your creativity!

UCE Forum Discussion Group

Sunday, May 16 at 10 am via Zoom – Join Forum’s final program for this year! Our 4th principle ask for a commitment to a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Because the mind is our primary tool, a responsible search would involve developing an understanding of how the mind works. Tom Carlton and George Monical will facilitate a discussion about how research might inform our approach to the 4th principle. In this Forum, we will identify resources and concepts that you might consider in your quest. Significant references will be drawn from the book Thinking Fast and Slow, by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman.

• Here is a list of twenty of his most humbling quotes as a primer for our discussion.
• You might also enjoy listening to the podcast “On Being” with Krista Tippett. She interviewed Daniel Kahneman recently.

Have you attended Forum? Avoided it? Wondered about it? A team is forming to plan 9 months of Forums for next church year, that is 18 sessions in all (two per month). Would you like to offer some topics for the Forum to tackle next year? You are invited to help shape these sessions. Your input is gonna be helpful. Email or call Shirley Adams, Diane Markel, Bob Mesle, or Steve Serikaku and offer ideas or join the team! The more, the merrier!

Current & Upcoming Adult Faith Formation

Intersectionality in Speculative Fiction: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season – Tuesdays, May 18  at 7-8:30  pm  - Facilitated by UCE member  Emily  Eckwahl-Sanna. Imagine a world where apocalypses are commonplace. Where frequent seismic activity—whether volcanoes, earthquakes, or other environmental disasters—result in extended winters and the widespread loss of human life.

Deepening UU Identity – May 26 at 7-8:30 pm via Zoom – Join us for our next session UU Spirituality: what does spirituality mean to us and how can we practice spirituality however we answer ultimate questions. Led by Rev. Eileen and Rev. Susan Frances

Sealed by Katie Langston: Q&A with the Author – Tuesday, June 1 at 7 pm – Katie Langston’s memoir, Sealed, tells the story of her conversion to mainline Christianity out of Mormonism. Attendance at the 4/27 reading group led by Ruth Orme-Johnson is not required to also attend the Q&A.