Sunday, February 28, 2010

A Diet for a Small Planet

Readings and a homiletic conversation from an intergenerational service for The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair's Focus Month: “Ethical Eating; Weighing Options” by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN

From The Art of the Commonplace, published by Wendell Berry in 2002
From the song This Land Is Your Land, by Woody Guthrie

SERMON
“A Diet for a Small Planet”
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION






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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Mardi Gras: Revelry and Restraint

A Worship Committee sponsored sermon for The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair's Focus Month: “Ethical Eating; Weighing Options” presented by the UUCM Senior Youth Group, written by Laura Rae Stakiwicz.


READINGS:

From M.F.K. Fisher
From Wikipedia about the meaning of Mardi Gras

SERMON

“Mardi Gras: Revelry and Restraint”
Presented by Laura Rae Stakiwicz and Kaylie Rose Kvoriak, slideshow by Lena Laque-Almond.

PRAYER & MEDITATION

by Luke Dodge

Particpants include: Thomas Billy, Luke Dodge, Greta Healy, Rami Jackson, Kaylie Rose Kvoriak, Lena Laque-Almond, Ben Polo and Laura Rae Stakiwicz



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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Food, Food Workers, Transporters and Us

Readings and a sermon for The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair's Focus Month: “Ethical Eating; Weighing Options” by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN

From Chapter 53 of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, as translated by Peter Merel
From the book Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

SERMON
“Food, Food Workers, Transporters and Us”
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION



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Sunday, February 7, 2010

To Each Their Own

Readings and a sermon for The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair's Focus Month: “Ethical Eating; Weighing Options” by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN

From the Hebrew Scripture The Song of Solomon
From Soulful Living; the Process of Personal Transformation by Dr. Larry Dossey

SERMON

“To Each Their Own”
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION



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