Church Service
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UCH Banned Books Service
Unitarian Church of Harrisburg PA 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg, PA, United StatesHybrid EventJD co-designed this service with others at UCH.
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This is Not My Beautiful House
UU Fellowship of Pottstown, PA 1565 South Keim Street, Pottstown, PennsylvaniaHybrid EventOne of our culture’s foundational myths is about ownership, security, and permanence. JD offers a bit of science, some personal experiences, and a Talking Heads song as puzzle pieces toward a new, more vulnerable humility.
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Fargo-TBA
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesHybrid EventTBA
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UUFGC-TBA
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesHybrid EventTBA https://tinyurl.com/UUFGCZoom
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Grants Pass – Ancestors: Honoring Them, Becoming Them
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesHybrid EventAncestors - everyone has them, and (spoiler alert!) most of them are dead. Euro-American culture isn’t very good at death; we are so scared of death we’ve perverted the one day each year our ancestors set aside for remembering them to instead focus on giving children candy and expressing our fear with giant inflatable spiders. […]
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Pathways- This is Not My Beautiful House
Pathways UU Fellowship of Hurst TX 481 West Harwood Road, Hurst, TX, United StatesHybrid EventOne of our culture’s foundational myths is about ownership, security, and permanence. JD offers a bit of science, some personal experiences, and a Talking Heads song as puzzle pieces toward a new, more vulnerable humility.
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Fargo – Building a New Way—DIY
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesHybrid EventJD describes lessons learned from his do-it-yourselfer father and grandfathers, and how those lessons might be applied to building a new way for our increasingly precarious global society. What kind of world do we want for our grandchildren, and for their grandchildren? Are we behaving accordingly? Building is not easy or comfortable—are we willing to […]
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UUFGC – Nature’s Scripture: The Interfaith Promise of Science
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesHybrid EventUnderlying the human world of strife and separation is an oft-neglected landscape of commonality between faiths: the natural world. At precisely the time when our religious and political divisions threaten the existence of life on Earth, science offers a sweeping interfaith vista filled with revelations and insights as spiritually meaningful as ancient scriptures. Read as […]
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Hagerstown – Love In Darkening Times
UU Church of Hagerstown MD 13245 Cearfoss Pike, Hagerstown, MD, United StatesAs 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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UCH Evensong Service
Hybrid EventJD will serve as one of the musicians for this wonderful annual music service. https://www.youtube.com/@UCHBG/streams
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FUUFHC – One Song
Hybrid EventJD's first time working with the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. One Song is a favorite service, so it should be fun. Close out 2023 in total unity. One Song - the Science of Unity For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel […]
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UCH Annual Poetry Service
Hybrid EventAnnual Poetry service with JD as a co-curator. https://www.youtube.com/@UCHBG/streams
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UUFGC-Grand Design: Aging, Grandchildren, and Evolution
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesHybrid EventWhat evolutionary purpose is served by living so long after our reproductive years are done? This service explores the spiritual and social fertility of every life stage in a beloved community, an inclusive fertility especially enhanced in our later years. Not likely to be a grandparent himself, JD Stillwater takes the opportunity to scrutinize the […]
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Pottstown-Defining Enough
UU Fellowship of Pottstown MD 1565 South Keim Street, Pottstown, PA, United StatesFailure 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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UCH – In the Shadow of the Moon
Unitarian Church of Harrisburg PA 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg, PA, United StatesHybrid EventSince the dawn of humanity, eclipses have evoked strong feelings and symbolism, and an enduring mysticism expressed in legends, theologies, and worldviews. Eclipses remind us that we are minuscule observers of grand and timeless processes far beyond our control. Rich with metaphor and meaning, a total eclipse immerses us in awe. In this service, Astronomer […]
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UUFGC-Eclipsed: In the Shadow of the Moon
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesHybrid EventSince the dawn of humanity, eclipses have evoked strong feelings and symbolism, and an enduring mysticism expressed in legends, theologies, and worldviews. Eclipses remind us that we are minuscule observers of grand and timeless processes far beyond our control. Rich with metaphor and meaning, a total eclipse immerses us in awe. In this service, JD […]
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Grants Pass- Active Love, an Antidote to Anthropocene Angst
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesThat 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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Pottstown-Eclipsed: In the Shadow of the Moon
UU Fellowship of Pottstown MD 1565 South Keim Street, Pottstown, PA, United StatesSince the dawn of humanity, eclipses have evoked strong feelings and symbolism, and an enduring mysticism expressed in legends, theologies, and worldviews. Eclipses remind us that we are minuscule observers of grand and timeless processes far beyond our control. Rich with metaphor and meaning, a total eclipse immerses us in awe. In this service, JD […]
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Active Love, An Antidote to Anthropocene Angst
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventThat 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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Magic Recipes: Science and the Profound Meaning of Spring
All Souls UU Church - Bellville 25 Church St, Bellville, Ohio, United StatesThis is also All Souls' annual Flower Communion, so bring a flower! JD's topic: Eggs and seeds are quintessential symbols of birth and spring, but did you ever really contemplate the magic that hides inside them? The new science of emergence is like 1+1 = poetry; it’s magic, but also rigorous science, and spring is […]
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Fiddling While Rome Burns
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventWhen the entire planet is engulfed in flames (climate change, nuclear arms, fascism, extinction, mass migration), isn’t full-time activism the only reasonable activity? Isn’t everything else a kind of indulgence? What if activism just isn’t your thing? What if your talents and passions lie in something like fiddling? JD shares his own wrestlings with this […]
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