Join us this Sunday as we celebrate all of the four-legged, winged, no-legged, or many-legged companions in our lives and offer a special UU blessing. We will also honor those who have graced us in the past and celebrate the contributions of animals to all our lives. Please bring your current animal companions to be … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals 2026
Join us in community this Sunday as Tom Kersen shares about his most recent exploration of intentional communities in the south, specifically the Hot Mulch Band and the broader countercultural scene in the Ozarks as a case study in disrupting the status quo. Drawing on Victor Turner’s concepts of liminality and communitas, Kersen argues that … Continue reading Hot Mulch and the Sociology of the Edge: Counterculture, Liminality, and Disrupting the Status Quo
This Sunday we will celebrate our annual tradition of Soap Box Sunday, a unique UUJXN service created by our late member Fran Leber. Soap Box Sunday is held on the Sunday closest to July 4th and is an opportunity to exercise our Unitarian Universalist 5th Principle (the right of conscience and the use of the … Continue reading Soap Box Sunday 2026
