Annual Burning Bowl Service
We meet together once again at the start of the year to release our burdens to help us move forward in this ritual of change and transition.
Image credit: “Burning Bowl” by Cindy Wright
Speaker: Don Benson
Pluralism, Tribalism, and the Human Condition
“Crayon Fence” by chrismetcalfTV is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Online Sunday Service: The Family That Stays Together… hmmm
So when asked about doing a talk on the family, I just remember thinking how broad this idea of the family is. So I started thinking….
What are all the ways the word “family” is used?
I ran off a list, though this is far from complete. … read more.
The Struggle to be an Open Person
Youth programming is available, and conversation and refreshments follow the service. Everyone is welcome!
Annual Burning Bowl Service
Don Benson will lead the annual Burning Bowl service, a ritual to bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the new: reflecting on and releasing the areas of our lives that no longer serve our highest good: we look forward, creating goals that will advance our journey in the coming year. Childcare and a youth programming is available, and refreshments and conversation follow the service.
Discussion Forum Sunday: “Spiritual Maturity”
Don Benson will lead this Discussion Forum on the September worship theme “Spiritual Maturity.” A youth RE program and childcare are available during the service, and refreshments and conversation follow. Everyone is welcome!
Annual Burning Bowl Service
Don Benson will lead the annual UU Casper Burning Bowl service, a ritual to bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the new: reflecting on and releasing the areas of our lives that no longer serve our highest good: we look forward, creating goals that will advance our journey in the coming year.
During this ritual, all are invited to write down on a piece of paper what they wish to release from the past year. They then come forward to burn the paper as an act of symbolic farewell. Participants will then write down their wishes for their lives in the new year, and place wishes in sealed, self-addressed envelopes, which will be kept private, then mailed to everyone during the summer of 2018.
Care of the Soul: Discussion Forum
Don Benson will lead a discussion forum on the monthly worship theme, “Care of the Soul.”
Everyone is encouraged to bring a can of soup to donate to Food for Thought to help fill weekend food bags distributed to school children in Natrona County.
Hope Springs Eternal
An Essay on Man, Epistle I (1733) – Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
It means that no matter the circumstances, … read more.
Discussion Forum on “Right of Conscience & the Democratic Process
Don Benson will facilitate a discussion on the monthly worship theme, the 5th UU Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.