Location: The Lingonberry A child centered service LIVESTREAMED VIA ZOOM: See Zoom Details for Sunday Services Share-the-Plate – Our plate recipient for November/December is “Earth Centered co-learning with Shelley Buffalo,” a webinar for 2024. To donate to the plate recipient, you can Give Online. Or, if sending a check, please note “Share the Plate” in … Continue reading Celebrating Chalica
Location: The Lingonberry Our journey with Land Acknowledgements, and a path forward, illuminated by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Eddie Benton-Banai. Carol Hagen has been a member of NEIUUF since its beginning. She spent her early social work career studying, working and living with Indigenous people in Wisconsin and Minnesota. It has been an honor … Continue reading Becoming Indigenous to Place
Location: The Lingonberry As the Rev. Kirk Loadman-Copeland observes, “Composing a life involves both self-invention, creating ourselves anew, and self-discovery, coming to know our own voice as we stride deeper and deeper into the world.” This service explores our monthly theme of formation. How have we formed ourselves and been formed by others, composing the … Continue reading Composing a Life
Location: The Lingonberry Providing honest, caring, and timely feedback is essential to nurturing trust. That’s why we believe Evaluation is an act of Love. This will be a conversation centered service with Carolyn Corbin We need to be able to speak directly and frankly to each other about what we want and need from each … Continue reading Evaluation is an Act of Self-Love
Location: The Lingonberry Our annual Day of the Dead service. Download Bulletin LIVESTREAMED VIA ZOOM: See Zoom Details for Sunday Services Share-the-Plate – Our plate recipient for September/October is the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. To donate to the plate recipient, you can Give Online. Or, if sending a check, please note “Share the Plate” in … Continue reading Forgiving Our Ghosts: Making Peace with the Ancestors Who Are Hard to Love
Location: The Lingonberry Intersex people have any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that don’t conform to binary notions of male or female bodies. On October 26, 1996, intersex activists attended the Annual Academy of Pediatrics’ annual conference in Boston, hoping to deliver an address against the prevailing medical opinion that … Continue reading Beyond Boxes: Intersex Awareness
Location: The Lingonberry Our Whole Lives, the multigenerational sexuality education classes facilitated by the UU and UCC for over a decade in Decorah are a fruit of our UU principles. Come be refreshed and renewed in yourself and in our congregational commitment to this ministry as we welcome two new facilitators, Melissa Koch and Sandhya … Continue reading Our Whole Lives: Lifespan Sexuality Education
Location: The Lingonberry Decorah UU folks will read & discuss. Reverend Dittmar reflects from the perspective of white allyship on the complicated feelings that emerge when attending a local Indigenous cultural event. We will follow with a facilitated conversation about moving forward in allyship while experiencing complicated feelings. From “Dismantling White Supremacy Culture Resource of … Continue reading Listen More and Talk Less
Location: The Lingonberry World Teachers’ Day is held annually on October 5 to celebrate all teachers around the globe. The theme of this year’s celebration is “the teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage.” Steve Peterson, 5th grade science teacher at Decorah Middle School, will be … Continue reading Celebrating Teachers
Location: The Lingonberry In the US, pilgrimages are often regarded as an antiquated form of spirituality. Luther College professor of religion Gereon Kopf will share his reflections, in which he will combine his own experience with Catholic as well as Buddhist pilgrimages and the need to walk with people across multiple divisions, imagined and real, … Continue reading Traveling with the Living and the Dead: A Pilgrimage for the 21st Century
