Our Home Universalist Unitarian Church and the Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger are inviting UUJXN, as well as UUC Tupelo and UUC Oxford, for a jazz funeral to lay to rest the year 2022. Let’s get the new year 2023 started by laying our burdens down from 2022! This promises to be a musically rich and engaging … Continue reading 2022 Jazz Funeral
Dr. Tom Kersen takes us back to the 1970s and the Jesus Freak movement. According to Kersen, the movement was “primarily a West Coast phenomena linked to Children of God which many people felt was a cult. Duane Pederson was a Greenville native and a JF organizer when he moved out to Hollywood. Two JF’rs … Continue reading The Jesus Freak Movement
Come celebrate the interdependent web of existence! Today we will honor traditions associated most famously with Saint Francis of Assisi, and the less well known Saint Dwynwen and Saint Blaise, as we acknowledge the importance of and bless our animal companions. All two-, four-, six-, eight-, and no-legged individuals are welcome, including those with fur, … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals
