This week in the Soulful Home packet we focus on the segments Welcome, At the Table and On the Message Board. Check out this week’s video for a short synopsis.
If you missed the Welcome and Intro to RE, check it out here, or you can read about it here.
Young people will be receiving another Soul Kit mailing too, so look for that this week!
UU Kids Connect
A free virtual gathering of UU kids K-8 from around the country and Canada! This program started as a summer camp and was such a success that they are continuing with monthly virtual gatherings. Click here to register.
Registration Time
Although we might not be having in-person RE on Sunday mornings yet, it is important to know who wants to connect – whether virtual or not. By registering, we can ensure that you get information on all programs and events for all ages this year. Sign up here!
Many Ways to Connect
All Families:
Fellowship – Sunday after worship – Join the virtual coffee hour zoom where parents and families can meet and greet in their own breakout room!
Family Fun on the Lawn (weather permitting) October 7 at 5:30-6:30 pm – Sign up here.
Parents on the Porch – October 25 at 8:30-9 pm – Grab your favorite beverage and join other parents on the porch – virtually – to share thoughts on parenting as it relates to the pandemic and our monthly theme of Renewal. Sign up here.
Pre/K Kids and Families – Here is a new program for you – POP (Parents of Preschoolers)! Check it out 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. We’ll have a parent’s virtual gathering on October 26 at 8 pm to share our experiences. Sign up at here. Zoom info will be sent via email closer to the event.
1st-5th Kids and Families – Thursdays, October 15 at 4-4:45 pm – Sign up here.
6th-8th Families – Popcorn Theology Online – Sunday, October 11 at 9:30-10:30 am – Sign up here.
High School Youth – TBD – Look for emails with details!
For Adults
UCE Forum – Sunday, October 4th at 10 am
“Virus vs Human: winners and losers in the interdependent web of all existence”
Discussion leader: Brenda Russell
Come discuss your role in the battle between the Covid—19 virus (Darwin, survival of the fittest) and humans (Genesis 1:28 “Be fruitful, and multiply”). This new virus has travelled rapidly around the world and infected millions of humans, so it’s a Darwinian success from the point of view of the virus. Humans have succeeded in rapid population growth in the last few centuries thanks to science for control of disease, another Darwinian success. Let’s discuss together the current and future challenges for making our world safe and sustainable in the pandemic era.
Click here to join the Zoom meeting. Meeting ID: 955 9666 8543, Passcode: 463626, One tap mobile: +13126266799,,95596668543#,,,,,,0#,,463626# US (Chicago)
Visions of God 
Tuesdays at 7-9 pm via Zoom 
Facilitated by UCE members Bob Mesle and Dan Solomon.
This class aims to help people explore a range of important visions embracing or rejecting “God,” and to share personal journeys with each other. We hope class members will learn some new ideas, clarify familiar ones, make new connections, and enrich in their own thinking.
The question, “Do you believe in God?” is not productive unless we can get some clarity about what a person mean by “God.” But for us, the question certainly raises interwoven questions of both REALITY and VALUES. It asks about what exists and how the universe works. Talk of “God” also raises important questions about what values “God” stands for and what feelings are invoked. Geneticist and religious naturalist, Ursula Goodenough, notes that religion is about both “What is, and what matters.” –i.e., truth and ethics. Religions, including atheistic secularism, propose visions of reality coupled with claims about how we should treat each other given those beliefs. This class will explore how some concepts of “God” engage us in those reflections.
Click here to join the Zoom meeting. Meeting ID: 828 7766 5260, Passcode: 934455. One tap mobile +13126266799,,82877665260#,,,,,,0#,,934455# US (Chicago)
For more information, See the Adult RE page on the UCE Website, or email dan.solomon.45@gmail.com.
Christ for UU’s
Given that our UU roots are in Christianity, shouldn’t we study it more? UCE’s Amy Pooley facilitates this new program beginning November 3 centered on these questions:
  • What can we as Unitarian Universalists learn from reading the New Testament?
  • Who was Jesus and why does he matter?
  • How can getting in touch with our Unitarian and our Universalist roots help us rethink the Christian message and even understand it in a new way?
Join us in discussing these questions and more on five Tuesdays in November and December. The course will be based on readings from the New Testament and the recent Beacon Press release “Christ for Unitarian Universalists.” We welcome you to purchase a copy of the book here to follow the course’s reading schedule, but the discussion will also be accessible for those who have not done the reading and would simply like to show up to share and listen. All sessions will be on zoom.