photo by pauline loroy As we all know, reality has a liberal bias. Stephen Colbert In April we will talk about 'Bias'. The Religious Exploration Salon is a group that meets 3rd Sundays to discuss various topics in the format called Bohm Dialogue which emphasizes...
Religious Exploration
March 2021 RE Lesson: Where We Don’t Run Away When Things Get Hard
Building Beloved Community and journeying toward spiritual wholeness isn’t easy. The proposed 8th UU Principle invites us to “accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.” Dismantling means taking apart something which has been built up.Racism has been built up for over 400 years. If we want to do it, we must commit to the long haul and the hard work. And when that hard work gets really hard, we will be tempted to quit or run away. So, what’s one of the ways our faith guides us into becoming a people of Beloved Community? It tells us “Don’t run away when things get hard!”
Salon/Bohm Dialogue 3/21/21 — Heaven (on earth) or a Discussion of Same?
The old joke goes: "A Unitarian Universalist dies, and on the way to the after-life encounters a fork in the road. The left path has a sign “To Heaven” and the right has a sign “To a Discussion about Heaven” Without pausing, the UU turns right." In March you will have...
Salon/Bohm Dialogue 2/21/21 – Books
Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash Our topic this month is "Books". There are endless quotes about books: I never understood people who don't have bookshelves. - George PlimptonA room without books is like a life without meaning. - Thomas JeffersonWe never tire of the...
Video Lesson & RE News
https://youtu.be/XmcFHrznUAg Please check out this lesson that we developed for our youngest members with our wonderful RE Assistant, Robert Jones. Current Events Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb 22-year-old Amanda Gorman became the United States’ youngest inaugural...
Salon/Bohm Dialogue 1/17/21 – Free Speech
Jake Angeli - noted US Capitol invader and QAnon member. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to...
Salon/Bohm Dialogue 12/20/20 – The Transition Movement
Our December topic is "the Transition movement". Transition is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.The international Transition movement began in 2005 in Totnes, England, and has since spread to over 1,200 communities in 50...
Salon/Bohm Dialogue 11/15/20 – Meritocracy
At the core of our democracy, there is a basic inequality, not the inequality of wealth, though that is a problem, or the inequality of speech, though some think that a problem too, but the inequality of citizens. – Lawrence Lessig meritocracy - noun1. rule by persons...
Bohm Dialogue 10/18/20 – Creativity
From elementary grades to college, cooperative students have higher grade point averages. Personnel directors who work together have fewer job vacancies to fill. And, not surprisingly, cooperation increases creativity. ― Perry BuffingtonInstead of worrying about what...
Bohm Dialogue 9/20/20 – Tribe
Dunbar numbers “What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. ― Seth Godin“I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in...