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The Communicator: Church News July/August 2023
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July/August 2023 Series Invitation: God. A Concept
God, the concept, has different names, metaphors, and practices across time and cultures. They all reckon in diverse ways with the fundamental mystery at the heart of existence. Often Unitarian Universalists think we must accept or reject the concept of God or Gods, but as we know, any binary is false. Our July/August series – God. […]
TV Recommendations with Rev. Gretchen: Nine New Shows
It’s June, which means this is my last post in this series! I hope you’ve enjoyed watching tv over the last few weeks. The amazing thing about TV right now is that great shows come out every day, and new discoveries of brilliance, originality, and creativity are constantly possible. Which is amazing and also sometimes overwhelming because […]
June 2023 Series Invitation: Sit By Me
About this time last year, Carri and I started saying a new mantra to ourselves: leave the house. It was kind of a joke, kind of not – because we recognized that we had fallen into some new habits during the pandemic that made it more likely that we would barely leave our home most days. Some […]
TV Recommendations with Rev. Gretchen: Shows That Aren’t For Everyone But Might Be For You
It happens quite often that I end up loving a show that I won’t recommend to everyone. Because it is particularly gory, explicit, or just plain weird, or really heavy in one genre (esp sci-fi or fantasy) that some people just don’t like. But then again, these shows are also often incredibly original, fascinating, creative, […]
The Communicator: Church News May 2023
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TV Recommendations with Rev. Gretchen: Shows Worth (Re)Discovering
Whether you missed it when it first came out, or it’s just been a while, some shows are worth returning to, even after they’ve concluded their run. Sometimes it feels oddly revolutionary to watch a show long after “everyone” is talking about it – but a great show is a great show, regardless of when […]
TV Recommendations with Rev. Gretchen: Feel Good Shows
For the first batch of TV recommendations, we’re starting with the opposite of serious. All of these shows are accessible, easy to get into, with a general feel-good ethos. Here are 19 Feel-Good Shows I highly recommend you check out: The Good Place (4 Seasons, 22-30 mins, Netflix): An extremely Unitarian Universalist take on the afterlife. […]
Series Invitation: Active Hope April 2023
Living in this world requires a certain compartmentalization. Otherwise, we’d be caught in an overwhelming awareness of ethical quandaries, grief for all that has been lost, and anxiety for all that we have yet to face. We try not to think too much about any of it and just do what we can and keep […]