Led by Sharon Brown This service will consider the inherent worth and dignity of every person. We will look back at the early struggles for Gay Rights and now at the bias, oppression and struggles of Transgenders just to be. Sharon Brown grew up in a UCC parsonage and in the mid- 1970s joined the […]
7/30/23 For Such a Time as This – Esther 4:14 Read More »
Led by Janet Fournier As our hearts and minds learn to evolve together, our later years in life can truly be our best: full of growth, love, acceptance and understanding. Janet Fournier is a member of UUCB, finding her ‘home’ here in September of 2022. She relocated to Brunswick on Halloween of 2020, with a strong
7/23/23 U.U. and Me: Supporting A Continued Search for Truth and Meaning Read More »
Led by Reverend Al Boyce In the Old Testament story of Elijah having a conversation with the Divine, he is found by God hiding out from his perceived enemies in a cave. God asks: “What are you doing, HERE?” How often do our values challenge us to the point we just want to run away from
7/16/23 What Are You Doing? Read More »
Led by Peter Blachly This reflection will be about the individual journey of healing from personal trauma. Peter Macdonald Blachly is the nephew of former long-time Brunswick UU members Daphne Holden, on his father’s side, and Dr. and Mrs. Peter Haughwout, on his mother’s side. His life-long quest for answers to life’s big questions has
7/9/23 What is “Healing” Within a Sick Society? Read More »
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Led by Alexis Nolan Alexis will share what her work has taught her about the roles of compassion, empathy, and stigma reduction in providing good health care and how this leads to progress towards the intersecting goals that we share as Unitarian Universalists. Alexis Nolan has been a nurse midwife for 13 years and is currently the Director
Led by UUCB member Steve Eagles In celebration of the end of South African apartheid Steve Eagles and Cindy Parker traveled for a few weeks in 2015 to a variety of South African locations, hoping to find evidence of our UU principles at work in a completely changed society. The success of nonviolent direct action
6/25/23 Refections on South Africa Read More »
By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine View Times Record Version (PDF) This week in our congregation, we experienced something too rare these days—a unanimous vote on an issue of urgent importance to our neighbors. That issue is Tribal Sovereignty for the four Wabanaki tribes that remain
Spirit of Life: Making Time to be Better Neighbors Read More »
Led by Rev Eduardo Pazos In this sermon Rev Pazos will explore his journey into understanding his own mental health struggles with anxiety and the role that spiritual practices like meditation and contemplation can play in fully accepting all of who we are…even our anxious selves, and make a path for a more compassionate view
6/18/23 Making Peace with my Anxious Self Read More »
