• Cumberland, MD – Into the New: Infants and Other Beginnings

    UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United States

    What happens when we stand at a threshold wondering how it will play out? In this service about beginnings, Science Ambassador JD Stillwater explores the infinite possibilities embodied in newborn babies, newborn moments, and in all the diverse expressions of a creative universe that take us “into the new.” Cameo appearances by Alfred Hitchcock, dorkishness, […]

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  • Creation Spirituality Communities Conference – Sex and Evolution: a Love Affair, a Communion

    JD is the first Keynote speaker at CSC's annual conference in St. Louis (JD will present remotely from home). The conference title is Defiant Love: Nurturing Resilient Communities. Learn more and register: https://www.cscommunities.org/events/gathering-2026. JD was tickled that conference leaders chose the title of one of his unrelated talks (about healing from ancestral trauma) as the […]

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  • Lancaster, PA – Monkey Business: Jane Goodall & Other Animals

    UU Church of Lancaster, PA 538 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

    Humans are special, right? We have tools, language, self-awareness, morality … or are we? Jane Goodall’s impressive legacy includes rescuing the science of animal behavior from its own religion-based dogma. Knowing we evolved, is it really so surprising that our cousins have qualities we once thought unique to us? Stream Link.

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  • Glacier (Kalispell), MT – Defining Enough

    Glacier UU Fellowship, Kalispell, MT 1515 Trumble Creek Road, Kalispell, Montana, United States

    Blurb: Failure to define “enough” means never being satisfied. It makes us vulnerable to slick advertising, and fills our lives with tedium and chaos. It deflects our focus from sources of true happiness, like play, family, relationships, community. Ultimately, it also leads to the desecration of Earth’s living systems. Defining “enough” is a spiritual practice. […]

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  • Verdugo Hills, CA – Active Love and Anthropocene Angst

    UU Church of the Verdugo Hills, CA 4451 Dunsmore Ave, La Crescenta, California

    That humans are having major impacts on the planet is now quite clear, and some of those impacts may be evident millions of years from now. Are we a cancer on the biosphere, a plague? Would it be better if we had remained blissfully in the stone age? Our angst about such matters may be […]

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  • Lancaster, PA – Love in Darkening Times

    UU Church of Lancaster, PA 538 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

    As the turning Earth carries us into the deepening darkness of winter, and looming shadows of hate and hurt plunge the world into an anxious twilight, we pause. In such times, we draw closer, offering our mutual support and affection. In darkening times, we renew our commitment to all love’s forms, affirmed in word and […]

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