Community has become even more important in these challenging times. We offer multiple ways to connect.
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For those who cannot make it in person to services, we offer livestreaming via YouTube. See this week’s service announcement directly below with the link. (Click on the picture.)
Sunday morning service videos can be accessed at your convenience on our Worship page or YouTube channel.
Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is Sunday, May 19th at 9am. CLICK HERE for more information.
Join Rev. Craig for Thursday Tea Time on Zoom! 4pm the weeks he is in the pulpit. CLICK HERE to find the link.
May 19th, 10:30am
In person & livestreamed
What Time Is It?
Rev. Julie Newhall, guest minister
While sentient species are aware of the seasons, we humans are the species that obsesses about the specific dimensions of time itself. Have you ever lived through an entire day without knowing the time?
Music by Helen Kho and PJ Casbar
Reverend Julie Newhall was ordained at UUCMC twenty years ago. She has served as a settled minister, a consulting minister, a hospital chaplain, a teacher at Brookdale Community College, and as a guest speaker at fellowships and congregations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, and North Carolina.
May 19th, 9am
Community Room
How Native Does a Plant Have To Be? Choosing Native Plants For Your Garden
Ann Sherwood, PhD
Invasive vines, deer over-population, and the rapid spread of infestations killing ash, beech, and oak trees are hallmarks of environmental imbalance. The objective of using native plants in our gardens is to rebalance ecosystems that support the wildlife we all need to survive. Ann will highlight how native plants can be restorative, explain the multiple definitions of “native” and provide simple ways to make choices when purchasing plants.
Ann has been a member of UUCMC for more than 35 years. She is a Master Gardener and a member of the steering committee for the Monmouth County Chapter of the Native Plant Society of NJ. See: homegrownnationalpark.org; npsnj.org.
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May Monthly Theme: PLURALISM
Lives are lived in parallel and perpendicular, fathomed nonlinearly, figured not in the straight graphs of “biography” but in many-sided, many-splendored diagrams….There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.
There are many ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Inclusivity is not “how do we make you a part of what we are?” but “how do we become more of what you are?”
Differences challenge assumptions.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The first thing I am is a person….But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category.
Ask yourself, “What kinds of people do I talk about but never talk with?” Whoever is underrepresented in your life will be overrepresented in your imagination!….This is the truth of our divided landscape.
The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen, and our strength too limited to do all that must be done. Together, our vision widens.
Our [many] identities…should be praised, celebrated, and paraded in the streets. They are Mardi gras and gumbo pots…refusing to be boxed in.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Diversity is not just about the differences you like.
Why be a star when you can make a constellation?
