HUU Community Cafe

Presented by Eric LaFreniere
6.21.09

Chalice Lighting: “Olympism [is] exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind, and will”

Good Morning! And Happy Father’s Day. Father’s Day. I hope that a service on the relationship between sports and religion makes good sense on today in particular. Actually, I was inspired by an associate who, [...]

Rev. Emma Chattin
May 10, 2009

First Reading ~ from John 19:25-27

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, Mary, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and [...]

Responses to the Sermon on Evolution: Perpetual Easter. Looking for peoples’ responses to the sermon but also to the topic of Evolution. What does it mean to you?

by Cheryl Talley, Ph.D.
April 5, 2009

I began my 50 week negativity fast on Monday, November 26, 2007 as an act of desperation. The fast from all news media was an alternative plan from abstaining from all food for a year…which had been a very fleeting thought.  I remembered the benefit of fasting from food from [...]

March 15, 2009
By Julie Caran

When Kevin and I came to Harrisonburg in 2002 for his interview with the JMU chemistry department, one of my first tasks was to look at the church listings in the local yellow pages.  Because I was leaving my position as a Director of Religious Education at another church in order [...]

March 8, 2009
by Rev. Emma Chattin

First Reading

~ from Matthew 25:29

“To those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance;
but from those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”

Second Reading

~ from “On Giving”, in “The Prophet”, by Kahlil Gibran

Then said a rich man, “Speak to us [...]

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Presented  February 1, 2009

Economics as a Faith System

Economics is derived from moral philosophy.  This is how St. Thomas Aquinas viewed in the 1200s when he introduced Aristotle’s economic analysis into Roman Catholic Church doctrine in a society dominated by the Church.  Aquinas reconciled the Church with Aristotle and his golden mean, a [...]

by James J. Geary
December 7, 2008

Good morning

Guess what! I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m  a very old man. And lately I’ve been feeling my age.

I read that the Czech novelist, Franz Kafka, wrote that the meaning of life is that it ends. Well, as I near that end, I’ve been looking back at the [...]

Presented by Beryl Lawson
November 30, 2008

Uncle Murray was a hobo. Well that’s not really true. He was a hobo but he wasn’t really my uncle. He was my mother’s boyfriend and I called him that even after they married  and until he became Grandpa Murray when the kids were born.

But he was a hobo during [...]