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Archives for March 2020

April 5 – “Loving Our Elders.”

March 31, 2020 by Fawn Smith

NWACC History Professor and long-time UUFF member Dr. Gene Vinzant speaks on the importance of respecting, appreciating, and loving our elders.

View the video recording of our service on Zoom.

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Sermons

March 29 – “UUFF Laughter Service”

March 24, 2020 by Fawn Smith

Zoom Service (no recording available)

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Remote Service/Event (Zoom), Sermons

March 22 – “EarthSpirit: UU Spring Celebration”

March 15, 2020 by Fawn Smith

A Zoom Service (no recording available at this time)

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Remote Service/Event (Zoom), Sermons

March 15 – “Coping with COVID-19”

March 13, 2020 by Fawn Smith

A UUFF Zoom Service (no recording available)

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Remote Service/Event (Zoom), Sermons

All UUFF-Sponsored In-Person Services / Events are Cancelled, Effective Immediately!

March 12, 2020 by Fawn Smith

Announcement

We will have Services available to watch online, and meetings can be held remotely, via Zoom. More details to come!

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Cancellations, Sermons

Jazz Poetry… finding the beat

March 10, 2020 by Fawn Smith

Jazz Poetry and Unitarian Universalism
(presented with a beat on Sunday March 10th, 2019 to UU Fayetteville, AR)

Jazz poetry should never use the words

Unitarian Or Universalism…

Just listen to them…
Unitarian
Universalism…

They break the Beat…
They smell like Feet!
They kill any Heat!

That just saying something as Cool as – Jazz Poetry – might complete!

How can I compete
Using a word that bleats like… Unitarian?

Try to Rhyme It!
Try to Climb it!
Lasso and Bind it!

There is no fair Climate, it just blows…

Unitarian – the original Swear Word
A dirty underwear word
By the Trinitarian majority

A put down,
A hold to the ground
Try to drown the heresy word…

Of union… Of a singularity…

Of a Jazzy God that is one with all,
A UNITY!

No need for more, a waste of time…
If time is your thing…

Divine in its singularity
A Big Bang throwing its stuff around
with all the ensuing Hilarity (12 seasons now)

Who needs more than a Unity?
Two more? Why…
Even Three?
Why Three? When Billions and Billions of Realities
Crowd the doors of the Universe…

A Jazzy, Snazzy universe, where quantum oddness holds court,

You might run into the wall, or you might run through…
Try it and see
The cat is both dead and alive!
Observationally…
We might be in two places at once…
Just try to prove it…
A Jazzy, Snazzy Universe where odd things happen…
odd things Like me… like You…

Out of the Bang of the Unity comes the beat of the Jazz
and Evolution of that beat, formation
Of Galaxies, and Stars, moons and earths…

Evolution
That Gave us Fins and Flippers
Fingers and Flyers
Fountains and Fathers….

And the letter F…

M came later,

But we know Mothers came first…

Or did they??? Who knows…

really, who knows!?!

All just Because…
Jazz Poetry hates the word Unitarian,
Tolerates the word Universalist – why not?

Why not Build a solid beat around Unity and Universe

And who knows why it would, or wouldn’t?
No one…

It’s Just Jazz

Filed Under: Minister's Blog Tagged With: blog, jazz poetry, minister, unitarian, universalism, uuff

Mar 8 – Jazz Service!

March 3, 2020 by Fawn Smith

Led by Renée Janski, Mike McMullin, and Rev. Jim Parrish, with special musical Ensemble performances by Ronda Jean (bass), Mike McMullin (trumpet), and Renée Janski (keys and vocals)!

Filed Under: 2020 Sermons, Music, Sermons

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What is Unitarianism? What is Universalism? Those terms have had different definitions, and Unitarian Universalism is more than one plus the other. You’re invited to join us as Rev. Dr. Steven Gaines leads us in an exploration of the breadth and depth of UU identity. There are 2 ways to attend our Sunday 11am Services. […]

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