By Joseph Plummer
So very little seems to be in our control – the pace of justice, the likelihood of averting a full-scale climate crisis, our own mortality and that of those we love. Under such conditions, how can we possibly set intentions for our future? And what kind of intentions might they be?
This Sunday’s guest minister, Reverend Rita Capezzi, offers her answers to these questions and invites you to consider your own. One source for exploration is the marvelous 2017 novel The Overstory, by Richard Powers. Another is the biology of insects. Through unexpected and surprising modes of knowing and being, the natural world becomes a foundation for personal possibilities.
Reverend Capezzi spent her childhood and youth as a native of Pittsburgh, PA. For 25 years she lived and raised a family in Buffalo, NY. While working as an English professor at a Jesuit college, she enjoyed international travel to Europe, Southern India, and Tanzania with students and colleagues. She entered Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2015. Since being granted fellowship by the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2018, Reverend Capezzi has served the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Mankato, Minnesota as its first full-time minister.
Beginning in September
Young Explorers, a new monthly program for kids 7 to 13, provides a space for children to explore a wide range of values, including respect, justice, compassion, responsibility, environmental protection, and more. The UUFSMA series will occur on the first Sunday of the month (September 2022 to May 2023), 10:30 to 11:30am. at Posada de la Aldea Hotel (second floor). The free program will accommodate both English and Spanish speakers.
For more information or to register, contact anne.geyer@comcast.net or chris.chase1955@gmail.com.
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion inviting its community to come together around a set of harmonizing values and principles for living. Our UU fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Belief in a divinity is not the central issue around which we gather for worship and generous action. Rather, we come together with a belief in community, love, compassion, social justice, and reverence for nature, all within the interconnected web of existence.
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In addition to continuing live Zoom services, UUFSMA has returned to in-person Sunday services. Reservations are no longer necessary.
*Joseph Plummer is the UUFSMA Board Secretary
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service
“Intentional Futures”
Speaker: The Reverend Rita Capezzi
Sun, Aug 28, 10:30am
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/414604040
Password: 294513
