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  • A closeup of a bouquet of red, orange, and yellow flowers, with the text "Flowers & Romance - An Evolutionary Love Affair"

    Hagerstown, MD – Sex and Evolution: a Love Affair, a Communion

    UUCHagerstown 13245 Cearfoss Pike, Hagerstown, Maryland

    Flowers, and the animal pollinators who consummate their unions, are a living testament to the diversity and communion of life. The deep cooperation and vulnerability inherent in sexual reproduction provides for the living Earth’s vibrant complexity, offering lessons for all of us, and for our sexuality. Streamed, but the link changes weekly. Contact uuhagerstownmd.org.

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  • A photo of a bouquet with orange and green flowers frames the title of the talk, "Sex & Evolution, a love affair, a communion. at the bottom is the name J.D. Stillwater.

    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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  • A garage, door open, stuffed to the ceiling with random household stuff, completely unorganized. In the foreground, a carefully manicured lawn and the front end of an SUV.

    Hurst, TX – Defining Enough

    Pathways UU Fellowship of Hurst TX 481 West Harwood Road, Hurst, TX, 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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  • A garage, door open, stuffed to the ceiling with random household stuff, completely unorganized. In the foreground, a carefully manicured lawn and the front end of an SUV.

    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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  • Deep-red sunset over silhouetted buildings and the text "Active Love and Anthropocene Angst"

    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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  • Two silhouettes face each other to make a black silhouette of a wine glass between them. The faces are made of an astronomical photo of a dense star field inside a blue-ish nebula.

    Hagerstown, MD – Sin, Repentance, and Grace: An Evolutionary Perspective

    UUCHagerstown 13245 Cearfoss Pike, Hagerstown, Maryland

    Human Nature: are we inherently, fatally sinful? Or, does the fact that we evolved offer hope for our growth and wellness? (hint: why yes, yes it does!) Science ambassador JD Stillwater brings a (r)evolutionary perspective on the evolved aspects of human nature. Can nature offer anything like salvific grace? What good is repentance amidst nature’s […]

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