Lóre Stevens returns to Lake Fellowship to talk about her personal "atheistic mystic cosmology," on which she wrote her Harvard Divinity School thesis. By telling the story of how she discovered her spirituality while traveling the country in an RV and later found a community within Unitarian Universalism, Lóre will help us explore our distinct world views and interconnectedness more deeply.
For this program, we will continue our study and discussion of the proposed 8th Principle of Unitarian Universalism. We began with our 1/15/2023 program.
If you were not able to attend, the recording and description of that program, which gives the background as to why we are undertaking this, is posted here:
https://lakefellowship.org/event/8th-principle-unitarian-universalism
Lake Fellowship welcomes Sondra Samuels, a Founding Leader and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northside Achievement Zone to speak to us.
Lake Fellowship warmly welcomes Terry Gips, President of the Alliance for Sustainability, for a program titled, Co-Creating a World of S.H.E. Kindness: Sustainability, Health, Equity and Kindness
From Terry:
Ten years ago, a grass roots movement started within Unitarian Universalism to adopt an 8th Principle:
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
Choosing to live a life of compassion,
Lake Fellowship happily welcomes back guest speaker Andy Fletcher. Andy will be joining us via Zoom from his home in Colorado. From Andy:
In 2011, Unitarian Universalists adopted a Statement of Conscience entitled Ethical Eating, on which the UU Office at the UN centered last year's Intergenerational Spring Seminar. But sometimes climate change and anti-racism can feel overwhelming amid all the concerns of our lives. Lóre Stevens, of First Universalist Minneapolis and Harvard Divinity School, will share her story of food insecurity and diet decolonization to show how mindful eating can be a great starting point to personal and social change.
Dowry, Film and Discussion
In the folds of ancient fabrics Dowry finds a woman’s stories of sexuality, birth, and death, grounded in war and immigration.
To open the dowry trunk of three generations of Greek women is to go back in time through an archive of fiber arts--heirloom lace, woven embroidery, hand sewn dresses. The fibers of each dress, curtain and tablecloth are interwoven with the threads of their lives: threads woven by the hands of women, threads that give voice to their stories.
Effective altruism (EA) is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others and put them into practice. It’s both a research field, which aims to identify the world’s most pressing problems and the best solutions to them, and a practical community that aims to use those findings to do good. Effective altruism was formalized by scholars at Oxford University, but has now spread around the world, and is being applied by tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.