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2019

9/8 Ingathering and Water Communion

9/1 Rev. Laurie Stuart

8/25 Becca Boerger: "Visions of UU Paradise"

8/18 New Horizons

8/11 Andy Wilczak: "Lessons Learned from a Life Cut Short"

8/4 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Faithfully Yours"

7/28 Mark Reinhart: PEACE

7/21 New Horizons Sunday
7/14 Denise Williams: "Following Your Call"

7/7 Rev. Laurie Stuart

6/30 Rev. Jo VonRue: "I Can't Keep Quite"

6/23 Michael Czarnecki: "Poems of Presence, Poems of Connection"

6/16 New Horizons

6/9 Family Sunday

6/2 Rev. Laurie Stuart

5/26 New Horizons and Annual Meeting

5/19 Rev. Libby Smith: "Gifted and Called"

5/12 Rev. John Ballance

5/5 Rev. Laurie Stuart

4/28 New Horizons Sunday

4/21 Flower Communion

4/14 Seder-Themed Service with Rabbi Kaplan

4/7 Rev. Laurie Stuart

3/31 Rev. Charlie Carrick

3/24 Becca Boerger: "What is Ministry?"

3/17 New Horizons Sunday

3/10 Rev. Jo VonRue: "May the Life I Lead Speak for Me"

3/3 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "People of Journey"

2/24 Valerie Koelling

2/17 New Horizons

2/10 Rev. Charlie Carrick

2/3 Rev. Laurie Stuart: Exercising our Trust Muscle

1/27 Rabbi Kaplan

1/20 Cancelled due to inclement weather

1/13 Melanie Davis

1/6 Rev. Laurie Stuart

2018

12/30 Fire Communion

12/23 Becca Boerger

12/16 Hanging of the Green

12/9 Rev. Libby Smith "Advent: A time of Waiting"

12/2 Rev. Laurie Stuart

11/25 Gratitude: A Food for Thought Service

11/18 New Horizons Sunday

11/11 Becca Boerger The Promise and the Practice of Our Faith for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism

11/4 Rev. Laurie Stuart

10/28 Rick Williams: "What Now, What's Next?”

10/21 New Horizons Sunday

10/14 Shannon Saylor: "The Spark within Samhain"

10/7 Rev. Laurie Stuart: This I Give You

9/30 Dave Chapman: A Look at the Theology of Unitarian Universalism

9/23 Michael Czarnecki: Autumn: Season of Awareness, Season of Change

9/16 New Horizons Sunday (At Frances Slocum State Park Pavilion 2)

9/9 Ingathering and Water Ceremony

9/2 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "When Enough is Simply Not Good Enough"

8/26 Food for Thought

8/19 New Horizons

8/12 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Lessons from my Garden"

8/5 Alex Szatmary: "Clubs, teams, and UU evangelism"

7/29 Jill Wetzel: Today IS your life

7/22 Rabbi Larry Kaplan A Jewish view on how to handle memories--the good ones and the bad ones

7/15 New Horizons

7/8 Helene Elko: The Journey to a Spiritual Identity

7/1 Rev. Laurie Stuart

6/24 Live Stream of General Assembly Worship Service

6/17 Rev. Libby Smith: Reclaiming Sabbath

6/10 New Horizons

6/3 Rev. Laurie Stuart

5/27 Family Sundae

5/20 New Horizons

5/13 Ellyn Ramich

5/6 Rev. Laurie Stuart

4/29 Flower Communion, led by Valerie Koelling and Ellyn Ramich

4/22 Michael Czarnecki: Nature

4/15 New Horizons

4/8 Rabbi Kaplan: "The Downside to Giving Up God"

4/1 Rev. Laurie Stuart

3/25 "Why I Believe the Mistreatment of Women is the Number One Human Rights Abuse," TED talk by Jimmy Carter

3/18 New Horizons

3/11 Rev. Libby Smith: "After the Fall"

3/4 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "It's a Balancing Act."

2/25 Becca Boerger: Growing the Beloved Community

2/18 New Horizons Sunday

2/11 Rev. Kim Wilson: "The Quest for Abundance"

2/4 Rev. Laurie Stuart: Getting Up Over and Over Again

1/28 Melaine Scott: "Fur, Feather, Hoof, and Shell"

1/21 New Horizons Sunday

1/14 Helen Elko: "Atachment and Spirituality"

1/7 Rabbi Kaplan

2017

12/31 Jess Simon: Fire Communion

12/24 Multigenerational Christmas Eve Service

12/17 New Horizons Sunday

12/10 Hanging of the Green

12/3 Chuck Collins: "Coming Home: A Pathway to Reducing Inequalities"

11/26 Steve Ris: The UU Faith in Uncertainty

11/19 New Horizons Sunday

11/12 Rev. Darcey Laine: "The Gift of Not Knowing "

11/5 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Abundance!"

10/29 Rabbi Larry Kaplan: "Halloween- Our fascination with death from a Jewish perspective"

10/22 New Horizons Sunday

10/15 Michael Czarnecki: Autumn: Time of Change and Reflection. A Poetry Reading.

10/8 Rev. Libby Smith: "On Being Religious"

10/1 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Finding Courage"

9/24 Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM: "Spirituality after the Holocaust"

9/17 New Horizons Sunday at Frances Slocum

9/10 Ingathering

9/3 Ellyn Ramich--Dorothea Dix: A Champion for the Broken Mind

8/27 Michael Scott: "A Buddhist View of Time and Eternity"

8/20 New Horizons Sunday

8/13 Rev. Jo VonRue: "One of Us"

8/6 Ted Talk: Bryan Stevenson - We Need to Talk About an Injustice

7/30 Helene Elko: THE SOUND OF SILENCE

7/23 Ellyn Ramich: Keeping the Sabbath Holy UU style

7/16 New Horizons Sunday

7/9 Cantor Ahron Abraham: " From Tragedy to Triumph: How Modern Judaism and Christianity Were Born Out of Catastrophe"

7/2 Rev. Mary Tiebout: "Our Liberations"

6/25 Rabbi Larry Kaplan: "The Israel Test"
6/18 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Let Go; Let Come"

6/11 Emily Ehrensperger: Bridging Service

6/4 Service Honoring Jill Wetzel

5/28 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "What Does White Supremacy Mean?"

5/21 Terry McCurdy: "Walking the dog early and discovering your intrinsic nature"

5/14 Coming of Age Service

5/7 Allyson Freyre: "Life as an Art Form: Celebrating the Finished Work"

4/30 CUUPS Group: Celebration of Spring

4/23 Joseph Crowe: A Slice of UU History: Joseph Priestley founder of Unitarianism

4/16 Becca Boerger: Easter

4/9 New Member Welcoming

4/2 Ted Talk by Devdutt Pattanaik: "East versus West - The Myths that Mystify"

3/26 Ellyn Ramich

3/19 Rev. Laurie Stuart "Theology of Risk"

3/12 Multi-generational Flower Festival

3/5 Craig Czury: “Here, But Not Really Here: Transcendence and the Everydaydream”

2/26 Stewardship Kick-off

2/19 Pat Infante: "Forward into a Faithful Future"

2/12 Rev. Darcey Laine "What's a Universalist to Think about Evil?"

2/5 Jo VonRue "Sacred Water, Sacred Land"

1/29 Mary Baker "Taking Turns"

1/22 Rabbi Kaplan

1/15 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Rebirthing Yourself in the New Year"

1/8 Rev. Charlie Carrick

1/1 New Year’s Requiem Service presented by Becca Boerger, Carol Clegg and Jill Wetzel, the Soul Matters Team

2016

12/18 Rabbi Kaplan "Keeping the 'Chan' in Chanukah"

12/11 Hanging of the Green (Multigenerational Service)

12/4 Mardys Leeper: "The Importance of Taking Our UU Faith Into The Public Arena"

11/27 Joseph Peterson: "What Drives You Forward?"

11/20 Rev. Mary Tiebout: "Becoming Human on Turtle Island"

11/13 25th Anniversary Celebration

11/6 Jo VonRue: "Would You Stand In the Fire With Me?"

10/30 Rabbi Larry Kaplan: "In the Beginning- An ancient joke about baseball or a true story?"

10/23 Rev. Laurie Stuart: "Immersing Ourselves in the Minor"

10/16 Lauren Dize: "Sacred Space Within: a journey of sound and meditation"

10/9 Joseph Peterson: Progressive Faith and Why it Makes a Difference

10/2 Becca Boerger: "Reining in the Reptile II Fighting prejudice in ourselves and society"

9/25 Rabbi Kaplan: "Happy New Year"

9/18 Laurie Stuart: "Where do we go from here?"

9/11 Ingathering and Water Service

9/4 Allyson Freyre: "UU Evangelism: What is it, and why does it matter"

8/28 Bindu Vyas: "Krishna: His Life and His Message (Geeta)"

8/21 Jill Wetzel: Camp Lackawanna

8/14 Rev. Don Garrett: "Mindful Politics"
8/7 Rev. Kim Wilson: "Peaceful Parlance: Taking Violence Out of Our Language"

7/31 Rev. Mary Tiebout: "STARS"

7/24 Rabbi Kaplan: "Would racism exist if we were all blind? What the Torah teaches about our eyes and racism."

7/17 Jo VonRue: "A Crisis of Atheism"

7/10 Sisters Constance Kozel and Barbara Craig: "Poetry as Prayer"

7/3 Lauren McCurdy: "the accidental defender of a faith"

6/26 Michael Czarnecki: David Grayson: Forgotten Adventurer

6/19 Anita Mentzer: "Advocacy As Spiritual Practice"

6/12 Joseph Peterson: "Purifying Karma: We Can Make A Difference"

6/5 Family Sundae: "Love Will Guide Us"

5/29 Rev. Dave Hunter: "Ask Dr. Hooker-- the Perennial Problems of Congregations"

5/22 Rev. Charlie Carrick "Focusing on a Community as an Agent of Healing"

5/15 Laurie Stuart "Blessing for a hurting world"

5/8 Rev. Darcey Laine: "Altruism and Evolution"

5/1 Rev. Dr. Sharon Brittingham: "Healing: A Spiritual Perspective"

4/24 Emily Shiffer, James Haberkern, Karen Fisher, and Ellyn Ramich: CUUPS Service

4/17 Laurie Stuart: "I Am Awake"

4/10 Becca Boerger: "The Force is With You: Meditations on Creativity and Spirituality"

4/3 Rabbi Kaplan: "Learning how to pray"

3/27 Tim Maloney: "Race To Do Good"

3/20 Multigenerational Service

3/13 Agnes Brennan: "What’s It All About?"

3/6 Jo VonRue: "A Pocket, Full of Liberation"

2/28 Bindu Vyas: "Vasant Panchami: The Festival of Spring, Celebration of Gnana Shakti"

2/21 Laurie Stuart: "Vulnerability: a pathway to desire"

2/14 Jill Wetzel: "What does it mean to be a people of Desire?"

2/7 Mark Lichty: "Fracking our Democracy"

1/31 Resistance: Kaylee Scruggs--My Life as an Act of Resistance and Terry McCurdy--The Dragons of Health Care

1/24 Personal Pagan Practices: Karen Fisher--The Druid Path; Emily Shiffer--Finding My Wiccan Path; and James Haberkern--Nine Virtues, A Single Life

1/17 Justin Naylor: "Parenting as a spiritual discipline"

1/10 Rev. Kim Wilson: "In Praise of Naps."

1/3 Rev. Mary Tiebout

2015

12/27 Cantor Ahron Abraham: "The Holidays-Stories, Customs, and Celebrations-Where Do they Come From and Why Have They Endured?"

12/20 Becca Boerger: Chalica Service

12/13 Michael Czarnecki: This Moment, Nothing Else

12/6 Jill Wetzel: Hanging of the Green-Multi-generational Service

11/29 Rabbi Larry Kaplan

11/22 Kaylee Scruggs: 2015 Trans Day of Remembrance

11/15 Suzanne Miller: "Head, Hands, Heart and Hope--UUSC at Work"

11/8 Laurie Stuart: "Renewing our promise"

11/1 Rev. Heidi Swarts: "Our Intellectual Ancestry: Spirituality for the Skeptic"

10/25 Jo VonRue: "Why is Everyone So Busy"

10/18 Rev. Mary Tiebout: "More than Sound"

10/11 Becca Boerger: "Celebrating UUCWV"

10/4 Ellyn Ramich: "Service of the Living Tradition"

9/27 James Calderone: "Everyday Challenges as I walk the Path."

9/20 Rev. Bob Throne: "Dig Deep and Fly High: Daring to take our 'roots and wings' seriously"

9/13 Becca Boerger: Ingathering Service

9/6 Agnes Brennan: "Sacred Matters"

8/30 Jill Wetzel: Camp Lackawanna

8/23 Emily Shiffer: "Intentional and Unintentional Magic"

8/16 Melanie Scott: "The Old, and The Ancient: Exploring the spirit world with the help of herbs"

8/9 Rev. Darcey Laine: "It is what it is"

8/2 Rev. Dr. Sharon Brittingham: "Examining Spirituality"

7/26 Rev. Don Garrett: "Training the Puppy"

7/19 Laurie Stuart: "Building a New Way: Reflections from General Assembly."

7/12 Eric Dietrich: "Excellent Beauty: the naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world."

7/5 Melanie Scott: "Dancing The Medicine Wheel; An Ojibwe Healing Tradition"

6/28 Rev. Mary Tiebout: "Seeds of Reverence"

6/21 Jo VonRue "You Alone Are My Heart's Desire..."

6/14 Mark Stavish: "The Power of Prayer and Belief in Spiritual Practice"

6/7 Cantor Ahron Abraham: "How Exclusive is the God of the Bible?"

5/31 Family Sundae

5/24 Clancy Cash Harrison: "Making the World a Better Place One Apple at a Time"

5/17 Jo VonRue: "Love Tends All Wounds"

5/10 Nikole Harrington and Grace Wetzel: Senior Bridging Program

5/3 Rabbi Kaplan

4/26 Rev. Kim Wilison: "Got Faith?"

4/19 Becca Boerger: Traveling Together in Love: Covenantal Community at UUCWV

4/12 Brandon Koelling: The Similarities Between Astronaut Theory and Unitarian Universalism

4/5 Beth Doherty and Jo VonRue: Flower Communion--"The Old Turtle and the Broken Truth"

3/29 Helen Elko and Bindu Vyas: Holi Festival

3/22 Rev Douglas Taylor: "Taking Flight"

3/15 Jill Wetzel: "A Time to Grow: One Seed and the Winds of Change"

3/8 Andita Parker Lloyd "Selma-the march and the "bridges" we must still cross."

3/1 Rick Williams, Dave Falchek and Carol Hussa "Cut to the Chase"

2/22 Ellyn Ramich: General Assembly "Love reaches Out." How do we reach our faith out into our community, the nation, and even the world?

2/15 Valerie Koelling: "The Love Languages"

2/8 Lama Laia: "Living from the Heart"

2/1 Rev. Dr. Sharon Brittingham: "One River, Many Wells, Exploring the Concept of Deep Ecumenism"

1/25 Becca Boerger: Visualizing our Future--Step by Step

1/18 Tiffany Griffiths: Gender Dysphoria from a Psychological Perspective

1/11 Rev. Charlie Carrick

1/4 Justin Naylor: "What Farming has taught me"

2014

12/28 Brian Dugas: "Learning from Ugandan Models of Education"

12/21 Rabbi Kaplan

12/14 Christmas Pageant: Would You like to Hold the Baby

12/7 Hanging of the Greens

11/30 Kenny Harr: Morris Dees

11/23 Terry McCurdy: "Other Tools"

11/16 Beth Connor: "Starving the Hunger for Negativity"

11/9 Rev. Dave Hunter: "Grace, Amazing Grace"

11/2 Rabbi Larry Kaplan: "In Defense of God- the pros and the cons."

10/26 Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans

10/19 Michael Czarnecki: "It Hangs Over Our Left Shoulder"

10/12 Rev. Darcey Laine: "The Danger of a Single Story"

10/5 Laurie McMillan: "Sermon, Interrupted"

9/28 Becca Boerger: Social Justice

9/21 Sharing service on Climate Change

9/7 Ingathering and Water Service

8/31 Sharing Service on the theme of Labor Day

8/24 Andrew McKnight "What Moves Us to Move?"

8/17 Camp Service and Potluck Picnic - Celebrate the inter-connected web of all existence with a worship service and potluck picnic at Camp Lackawanna in Tunkhannock.

8/10 Rabbi Steven Nathan "Moving Beyond Leviticus: Hebrew scripture and Jewish Tradition in Support of LGBT Equality."

8/3 Darwin Gregory: "A Bicycle Built for All"

7/27 Jo VonRue and Beth Doherty: Flower Communion Service

7/20 Agnes Brennan: “Know Thyself”

7/13 Sharon Brittingham: "A Strong Rope."

7/6 Becca Boerger: "Reflections on Freedom"

6/29 Alicia Lindgren, Kennie Harr, Jim Spak, Mike Scott, Tim Maloney, Melanie Scott, and Terry McCurdy: Poetry Sunday

6/22 Beth Connor: "The Power of Spiritual Practice."

6/15 Debbie Gross: "As Lions, As Lambs: Forgiving the Unrepentant Wrongdoer."

6/8 Rev. Drew Cottle

6/1 Family Sundae: A multi-generational service led by the 7th & 8th graders from the Coming of Age program.

5/25 Charlotte Lehmann: "Saints By Calling."

5/18 Bridging Service: Nandi Harrington: “Glee”

5/11 Cantor Ahron Abraham: "Motherhood and the Bible"

5/4 Mike Scott: "The Use of the Useless"

4/27 Andrea Nerozzi: "Images of Enlightenment: Art and the Spiritual Journey"

4/20 Bernie McGurl: "Thoughts on our Place and Our Time"

4/13 Rev. Dave Hunter: "Why is there something rather than nothing? Ultimate question or pointless diversion?"

4/6 Himil Desai and Birjukumer Patel: Holi Bringing Family and Friends together

3/30 Mindi Ramsey: Volunteer Recognition Service

3/23 Rabbi Larry Kaplan: "Reflections on the Holy Land"

3/16 Rev. Darcy Laine: "Language of Reverence"

3/9 Rev. Lowell Patton: “Is there right and wrong and if so who gets to decide?”

3/2 Stewardship Sunday--Ranwa Hammamy: "Not Forgotten"

2/23 Sr. John Michele Southwick "Can you be a Surprise?"

2/16 Kennie Harr "Growing our Ethics"

2/9 Arthur Breese “A message of hope- Today is better and your tomorrow will be brighter!”
2/2 Kaylee Scruggs “The Self Narrating Zoo Exhibit”

1/26 Rev. Craig Schwalenberg “Moments of Bliss”

1/19 Rabbi Kaplan "Can we ever be beyond racism? The Torah's view"

1/12 Rabbi Daniel Swartz "Does the Earth Have a Prayer"

1/5 Jo VonRue "One day you will not be able to do this, today is NOT that day"

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