Prairie Circle
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Growing our spirit, supporting community, nurturing the environment.
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9:15 AM
At the Byron Colby Barn
1561 Jones Point Road
Grayslake, IL 60030
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Volunteers are welcome to help with worship planning and delivery. If you are interested,
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Committee via email at Worship@
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Worship Schedule
9/5/10
Our Seven Principles: The Foundation of Our Faith, The Challenges They Present
The PCUUC worship committee has decided to focus on spirituality and the fundamentals of our religion over the next church year. One way we will do that is to reflect periodically on the seven principles that underlay our religion and work to have a better understanding of each. You will see these lay led sermons, about one a month, over the next year. This sermon, derived from the works of Forrest Church, will discuss the basis of our religion and start the discussion on the seven principles we will have over the next year.
Michael Merritt is a member of PCUUC.
9/12/10
Our New Beginning: The PCUUC Community Comes Home
We will celebrate the beginning of our new church year and the return to our PCUUC community via our annual Water Communion ritual. Within this service we will also explore the meanings of our PCUUC community, the community at large and the global community.
Carol Niec, Tonia Becker VerShaw, and Diana Fox are members of PCUUC.
9/19/10
Compassion Creed: Karen Meets Ted
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical, and spiritual traditions. It is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful and harmonious life. PCUUC members Jim Cubit and Fred O’Donnell join forces to bring "The Best Idea Humanity’s Ever Had" to PCUUC, where their task will be to help bring compassion to the forefront of people’s thinking. Enjoy the service and take home some goodies!
9/26/10
Soulful Diversity: The Spirit's Urgent Demand for Greater Inclusion
As the U.S. and the world get more diverse in many ways, what implications does this have for individuals as well as for faith communities? What are the spiritual dimensions of diversity and inclusion? In this sermon, Andrés Tapia, Chief Diversity Officer at Hewitt Associates and author of The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity, will share his take on these questions and offer both an inspirational call to embody diversity and practical ways to make it happen.
10/3/10
In Defense of Religion
Religion has some nasty knocks against it, the first of which is just trying to define what the word means. And further, for UUs, what does it mean to us as we are on the liberal religious edge of the world? Sometimes we don't even want to be identified as a "religion" because of the connotations and the history, but I'm going to suggest the word is still useful to us. Let's explore the possibilities of religion that UUs might embrace. Maybe you'll agree, maybe not.
Jim Parrish is a member of the Rockford UU Church who quit his engineering job in 2007 and began UU seminary at Meadville Lombard that same year. He has completed three years of his four year program, including a stint as an intern minister this last year for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria and then as an intern chaplain for a hospice in Chicago this summer. Jim is looking forward to completing his academic coursework at Meadville this coming school year and seeing the UUA's Ministerial Fellowship Committee as soon as possible. Jim is happy to share a service with the folks of Prairie Circle UUC.
