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Sharing Our Plate

We have a long history of supporting our partner church in Transylvania. During these COVID times, our partner church needs help. Please make checks out to HUUC, memo: Partner Church.
Or text 833-457-0519 and include the amount of your donation followed by the work "plate" and 33% of your donation will be donated.

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Film Screening - Healing From Hate

Film Screening – Healing From Hate

SJMC is partnering with Mass Peace Action’s Racial Justice & Decolonization Working Group, to host a panel discussion about the film entitled Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of the Nation, a documentary film that takes a deep dive into the minds of men who gravitate toward hate groups. Focusing on the bold work of the group Life After Hate – an organization founded by former Skinheads and Neo-Nazis now engaged in de-radicalizing violent extremists on the front lines, the film examines the root causes of hate group activity.

Register to receive a link to view the film from home anytime between Friday, March 5 and Sunday, March 14.

On March 12 from 7 to 8:30pm join a Virtual panel discussion featuring among others Sammy Rangel, one of the members of Life after Hate. A separate link for the panel discussion will be sent to all registrants in advance of the event.

For more information and to register to view this film click the link below.

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Virtual Religious Education

Virtual Religious Education

February's theme is Beloved Community
It’s school time again, after February’s break, and the shoots on the apple trees are a healthy brownish-red color reaching to the skies. There’s hope in the air and the possibility of more vaccine opportunities.

Last Week -
RE met last week and we played Climate Kahoots. Once more we talked with the youth about the kid-led Sunrise Movement and there’s interest in pursuing membership locally. The Sunrise folks are for those aged 35 and under—the youth-led counterpart to Arm in Arm! It works with UUMass Action. Very exciting grass-roots social action. We will keep you posted.

This Week -
Time for All Ages will highlight Hosea Ballou’s “Muddy Children” story; a Universalist story of love. This week in RE we will be looking at poetry as a tool of social change. It will be a lesson plan about Amanda Gorman’s intensely moving poems. We might dabble in Haiku for social action as well.

Sunday classes start at 11:15 a.m. https://zoom.us/j/9784567788
Or join by using the Meeting ID: 978 456 7788

-Laura
dre@uuharvard.org

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Sunday Service Zoom Information

Services begin at 10:00 a.m., you can try to join in starting at 9:45. Please Note: You will enter a waiting room and our hosts will admit you to worship.

Zoom Link for Worship Service -

By Computer: Zoom Link

For more information: Worship Service Live Streamed

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♦♦♦ Gems of The Week ♦♦♦

Race does not biologically exist, yet race influences our experiences and shapes our lives. Visit this is great website about learning to become anti racist from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Prior Weeks' GEMs:

  • In order to dismantle anti-Blackness in our communities, 28 Days of Black History each evening posts exhibits that highlight a moment in Black history, exemplified by the art, literature or artifact. There are discussion questions to guide conversations with friends, family, and colleagues. Follow this link to take you to the episode about Billie Holiday. Then, roam around the site for lots of great learning.

  • William Barber, and the Question of Faith and Politics – a New Yorker podcast with David Remnick, the pastor who spoke at the inaugural prayer service, wants politics guided by Christian morality. And conservatives, Barber thinks, are deeply confused about Christ’s teachings. You can listen to it here.

    “When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid.
    The new dawn balloons as we free it.
    For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
    If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

  • From The Hill We Climb, by Amada Gorman recited at the Inauguration of President Biden.

Loaves & Fishes Donations

With Loaves and Fishes still not accepting food donations, we have figured out a way to donate again. L and F has a Neighborhood Food Project we can join. Each family/person that is interested gets a green cloth Food Project bag. The goal is to add one item each time you go to the grocery store. Then your bag will be collected every 2 months and delivered with the other bags to L and F. You would have the option to drop the bag off at the Silk’s house or have it picked up by the Silks and receive a new green bag. (When we return to church for live services, you can drop your bag off at the church. This project may also help to keep donations going in the summer when church is not meeting.) If you are interested or have questions, please send an email to Maddy Silk

Thanks!

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Women’s Alliance – Tuesday, March 2, 7pm

Empowering Women in Academia

Dr. Judith Ockene, PhD, MEd, MA will talk about the promotion and advancement of women in academia and the work she has done in that area.

All are welcome to attend. Zoom link is below. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Janice Goodell jgoodell823@yahoo.com

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Meeting ID: 833 8807 3633

Passcode: 874032

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Wednesday Open Meditation

For All Levels of Meditators

Hosts: Pam Frederick, David Kendall

Wednesday evenings 7:00-8:00 p.m. online.

Join Zoom Meeting at 6:45 PM

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By phone:

301 715 8592

Meeting ID: 654 670 198

Password: 888341

Music

Chimers rehearse in the church on Saturday’s at 11 a.m.

Thanks!
-Eleanor Toth

Glean Team Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers! Please contact Bob Benson to learn about how you can help. For more information about the Glean Team.  

Volunteer sign up:

SignUpGenius: Feb – Apr 2021

Guest at Your Table

With our lives currently being held hostage by the corona virus, our GAYT effort will take a breather and start up again in the fall. In the meantime if you are able to send in a check to support the UUSC’s efforts around the globe it will be greatly appreciated. All donations will still be matched and donations of $125 or more will be quadrupled.

For more information please see our post "Guest At Your Table (GAYT) Takes a Breather"

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Who we are

We are a liberal religious community of people of all ages who hold diverse theological beliefs. We come not only from Harvard, but also from many surrounding towns. We gather together "in the spirit of love," to worship, to learn, and to care for one another. We come together both to be comforted and accepted for who we are, and to be challenged to transform and grow as moral and spiritual persons.

We believe in the value of personal experience and reason, and use both as we explore the wisdom of the world's religious traditions, seeking to find and make meaning for ourselves. We celebrate and honor the prophetic words and deeds of many of those who've come before us, which call us to serve not only one another, but also those outside of our community. We long for a world that is fair and just and filled with compassion, and we work to make it so.

We welcome you! We'd love to have you join us on our journey!