The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winona (UUFW)
Services Sunday 10 am For audios of previous services, click HERE
Guild Hall of Wesley United Methodist Church
114 W. Broadway, Winona, Minnesota
November 3 Title: Meaningful Grief Rituals
Coordinator: Debi Niebuhr Speaker: Mary Kaye Perrin
As a long time member of Winona Area Hospice and the president of the board, I have helped devise bereavement ceremonies for our community. I have also been involved in ceremonies in the Native American community as well as in Hispanic communities here and abroad. I will present several rituals for the dead and ask the UU community to participate.
Mary Kaye Perrin is a retired English as a Second Language professor with 45 years of teaching experience. She formally directed the international program at St Mary’s University.
November 10 Title: Communicating across divides
Coordinator: Steve Bibby Speaker: Marcia Ratliff
Engage Winona is a local nonprofit that drives equitable community change. Part of Engage Winona’s work is facilitating conversations that bring people together across dividing lines and create intentional spaces for relationship building. This presentation will outline tools for compassionate listening, healthy dialogue with folks you disagree with, and more.
Marcia Ratliff is the executive director of Engage Winona. She is also a poet and proud mama of a toddler.
November 17 Title: “What Curious George Can Teach Us”
Coordinator: Margaret Kiihne Speaker: Pastor Corrine Haulotte
While Curious George accompanied many of us in childhood, I believe he has at least as much to teach us now than ever. In holding compassionate curiosity for one another, perhaps it truly is possible to come together despite our differences.
Corrine has been lucky to be part of the Winona community since 2013 when she moved here to become the campus pastor of the Lutheran Campus Center. She is married to Pastor Greg Schaefer and enjoys life with him, three kids, two dogs, and lots of good coffee, books, and trees.
November 24
This year, we are having a Gratitude Meal rather than a Thanksgiving celebration. For indigenous communities, any celebration of colonization can be very painful, and while there may have been moments of cooperation between colonizers and indigenous peoples, those were not moments of cooperation freely occurring between groups of equally powerful, self-determining peoples, and could therefore not have been fully consensual. For this reason, we will keep alive the spirit of cooperation, thankfulness,
“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.” — Laozi
“Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.” — Confucius
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one’s own self. This, in brief, is the rule of dharma”. — Brihaspati, Mahabharata
“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: This is the entire Torah, the rest is explanation.” Rabbi Hillel
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” —Matthew 22:39
“Repel (Evil) with what is better.” Quran 41:34
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī