"That Good Old Summertime" or "Gimme That Old Time Religion"

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the first verses of the first chapter of the book of Genesis
From The Power of Myth, interviews of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers

SERMON
"That Good Old Summertime" or "Gimme That Old Time Religion"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: PJ Dwyer

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A Question Box Query

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.

A QUESTIONING INVITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Chapter 14 of the Tau Te Ching by Lao Tzu, translated by Stanley Rosenthal: "EXPERIENCING THE MYSTERY"
From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet

SERMON
"A Question Box Query"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: PJ Dwyer

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Peace is Possible: It Just Takes Practice!

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Carol Fitzpatrick and Kathy Wilcox.


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Buddha
From from Etty Hillesum’s "A Diary"
Again from the Buddha

SERMON
"Peace is Possible: It Just Takes Practice!"
by Carol Fitzpatrick and Kathy Wilcox

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS




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Carol Fitzpatrick and Kathy Wilcox offer workshops in Nonviolent Communication. They have been practicing NVC for six and ten years, respectively. Both are graduates of the North American Leadership Program (2007), and Carol was an assistant trainer in 2008. Kathy is currently an assistant trainer with Journeying Together, a 10-month NVC program in Toronto.

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Liturgist: PJ Dwyer

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Objects May Be Larger Than They Appear

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Chapter 48 of the Tau Te Ching by Lao Tzu, translated by Charles Muller
From “Stream of Life,” by 19th Century Mystic Poet Rabindranath Tagore

SERMON
"Objects May Be Larger Than They Appear"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: PJ Dwyer

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Praying for Sin

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by guest minister Rev. Allen Wells.

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Gates to Buddhist Practice by Chagdud Tulku
An excerpt from The Inquiring Mind magazine by Wes Nisker

PRAYER & MEDITATION

SERMON
"Praying for Sin"
by Rev. Allen Wells

DIALOGUE OF MINISTER AND CONGREGATION

CLOSING WORDS



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Today we welcome our presenter, Rev. Allen Wells, to our pulpit. Allen first served as minister of UU congregations in Weymouth, Mass., Hollis Queens and The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. Later he served as Director of Religious Education for the UU Congregation of Monmouth County and the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. In 1987 he opened the Allen Wells Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, a holistic mind/body spirit counseling center in Morristown, which he directed for 12 years. Now as a UU Buddhist psychotherapist, he specializes in the new field of Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy. Allen’s lifelong interest has been in bridging the internal, personal, psychological world, which we commonly call spiritual, and the external political, social, economic, environmental world, which we usually consider material.

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Liturgist: Laura Stakiwicz

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