POINTS TO PONDER AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING –SERVICE ON FEB. 17, 2008 AT THE PAINT BRANCH UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH- Rev. Gail Tapscott, Presenter All of us have many competing voices or energy patterns within our personalities that can seem almost like autonomous selves. Several schools of humanistic or transpersonal psychology call these entities subpersonalities. … Continue reading The Community Within and the Community Without
A Sermon by Barbara W. ten HovePaint Branch UU Church, Adelphi, MD — Feb. 3, 2008 FLAMING CHALICE DEDICATION by Bruce Baker, worship associate I was sick during this past week. I had that mild but annoying cold that has been going around here recently. For almost two days I just laid in bed too … Continue reading What It’s Like to Live Now
A Service led by Barbara W. ten Hove—Dec. 9, 2007 Flaming Chalice Dedication — by Marilyn Pearl Remember that giddy feeling you experienced as a child when your birthday, Christmas, Hanukah, or some other occasion was approaching, when you knew you’d be receiving gifts? That’s natural, but what about giving? While we tend to think … Continue reading What Gift Will You Give?
A service by Jaco B. ten Hove — Paint Branch UU Church, Adelphi, MD — Dec. 2, 2007 SONG: “This Little Light of Mine” READING: Our reading today is taken from a 1903 book by the early and influential sociologist W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk, in which DuBois examines the results, in the … Continue reading Modern Scripture, Part 2: From After Slavery
Barbara W. ten Hove — Paint Branch UU Church, Adelphi, MD November 18, 2007 CALL TO WORSHIP (Included this “message,” delivered by owl to Barbara at the beginning of the service) Dear Paint Branch: I am so excited that you are talking about Harry Potter in your service today. I think there is so much … Continue reading Holy Horcrux!