Location: Whalen Cabin in Phelps Park, View map showing cabin location Share-the-Plate – Our plate recipient for May/June is Decorah Pride To donate to the plate recipient, you can Give Online. Or, if sending a check, please note “Share the Plate” in the memo line. Donations may be mailed to Decorah UU, PO Box 382, Decorah, … Continue reading The Face of Spring
Location: The Lingonberry As we approach the deep darkness of winter, we reflect through poems and stories what we can learn about hope and patience for our inner and communal lives. 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 … Continue reading Wintering Down
Location: Lingonberry Grief is a journey, and vehicle we ride has a speedometer no one can control. This talk will be part memoir, part philosophical wondering, part sympathy and grace for whoever has riden the Grief Train. Service Leader: Carolyn Corbin LIVESTREAMED VIA ZOOM: See Zoom Details for Sunday Services Please note that masks are … Continue reading The Grief Train
Location: The Lingonberry Service leader: Lyra McKnight All are welcome to join us at Sunday Fellowship either in-person (usually at the Lingonberry but the service description will note if it is elsewhere) or remotely via Zoom. We have transitioned back to an every-Sunday service. LIVESTREAMED VIA ZOOM: See Zoom Details for Sunday Services Decorah UU … Continue reading Whose Miracles? Why Miracles? Our Miracles
This service title is taken from a nonfiction book by Eula Biss, in which she examines the evolution of her economic status (from struggling writer to successful, widely published one), and calls into question the assumption that our economic status should always “improve.” Beth Wahlberg, service leader. This week, we are meeting in person at … Continue reading Having and Being Had: When is there just too much STUFF?
Download poems shared at the service (plus a couple of bonus poems) Many times we’ve hosted conversations about books we love. In honor of National Poetry Month, let’s share our favorite poems. You can send the poem(s) you’d like to share ahead of the service to otterdreaming@gmail.com if you’d like people to be able to … Continue reading Poems We Love
We use the word “diversity” with a hundred different intonations in the 21st century. Sometimes, it appears as the concept were a problem to be solved, not a wonder to celebrate or take delight in. This service will explore our theme of “Unity/Diversity” with a call to recalibrate how we conceive of things that blend, … Continue reading Is There Really Such a Thing as Unity Within Diversity? A Coronavirus Meditation
At the end of each calendar year, many UU congregations observe a tradition called the fire communion, sometimes known as a “burning bowl” ceremony. People write down on scraps of paper phrases that represent the year behind them and bring forth the paper to burn it. Join us in this ceremony as we reflect on … Continue reading Fire Communion
with Luther College Professor of English, Nancy Barry Julie Fischer, service leader, Annastacia Cowles, greeter
with Nancy Barry, Decorah UU member and Luther College Professor of English Julie Fischer, service leader, Steven Nelson, greeter
